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[IPTV News at IPTV Watch] IP STB market braced for slowdown: “Established telco TV providers like France Telecom, AT&T, Free, British Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, and China Telecom provided much of the subscriber growth that drives the demand for IP set top boxes,” says Michelle Abraham, In-Stat analyst.

[TechPulse 360] Cisco Guns For IPTV Sales As Market Slows « TechPulse 360: That’s because providers including France Telecom, AT&T, Free, British Telecom, Deutsche Telekom and China Telecom have generated much of the growth in subscribers. It seems the easy-to-convince customers have already been won.

[CAT-iq blog] Red Hot IPTV Set Top Market is Cooling: “Established telco TV providers like France Telecom, AT&T, Free, British Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, and China Telecom provided much of the subscriber growth that drives the demand for IP set top boxes,” says Michelle Abraham, In-Stat analyst.

[Electronics.ca Technology and Market Research Reports - New Publications] Red Hot IPTV Set Top Market is Cooling: Established telco TV providers like France Telecom, AT&T, Free, British Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, and China Telecom provided much of the subscriber growth that drives the demand for IP set top boxes, according to the report. This situation is expected to continue in 2009 and 2010. 

[Telecom News on 4G, Wimax, Carrier Ethernet, IPTV, mobile apps and OSS/BSS | Telecoms Europe] Mobile payments to rise by 70% this year | Telecoms Europe: In terms of number of users and transaction volumes, Gartner expects Asia-Pacific and Japan to maintain a larger share of the market throughout the period to 2012. Mobile payment penetration in western Europe is expected to rise from 0.9% in 2009 to 2.5% in 2012, and from 1.7% to 3% in north America, but penetration in Asia-Pacific and Japan will rise from 2% to 3.8% in the same timeframe.

[Hollywood Reporter] Germany lagging behind in IPTV boom: Speaking at a Wednesday conference co-sponsored by The Hollywood Reporter and German media consultancy HMR, Harald Eisenacher, Telekom's head of products and innovation, said the company has agreements with some 350 content providers to feed its IPTV machine.

[TelecomAsia.net - Telecom Asia] Android should soon appear in netbooks and 20 phones: Google said at its annual developer conference that there could be up to 20 Android phones on the market by year end, though as Sony Ericsson has made clear, we need to see Android 2.0 and some heavy duty multimedia capabilities before handsets based on the platform will get into the super phone league. However, the conference saw Google highlighting the enhancements to its plans to make Android go head-to-head with Symbian, and becoming more responsive to demands from the broader mobile developer community.

[Blandin on Broadband] FTTH Council - Telecom Service Provider's Workshop « Blandin on ...: We've had Mike Render survey students to see if there were good ideas for growth. Most of the apartments are running very god cable wires - so a move to ipTV makes sense.

[The Gaea News] Every panchayat to be linked to broadband network: NEW DELHI - For a country that stood at the bottom of the pyramid in terms of telecom penetration a decade ago, 2008 was a watershed when India's subscriber base topped 350 million users to make its network the second largest in the world after China, displacing the US. The significant achievement was made possible by the mobile telephony segment of communications, which was once thought to be a gizmo for the rich - what with a tariff of Rs.16.80 per call when the telecom revolution began in the country in the early 1990s.

[Telecom News on 4G, Wimax, Carrier Ethernet, IPTV, mobile apps and OSS/BSS | Telecoms Europe] China Mobile to sell HTC Android phone | Telecoms Europe: According to an HTC official quoted by IDG News Service, the phone features a Chinese-language version of Android developed by HTC. The Wall Street Journal reported that the phone will run a customized version of Android called Open Mobile System developed by China Mobile, and that the operator will call its Android phones oPhones to reflect the customized platform.

[Comments for WATBlog.com - Web, Advertising and Technology Blog in India] Move Aside DTH, MyWay IPTV Is Here | WATBlog.com - Web ...: I personally believe that IPTV is going to be the thing of the future, how fast it happens is going to be decided by how efficiently can BSNL and its franchisee roll this one out. Oh and yeah, let’s hope that the days are not far away when every home will have broadband connections at home.

[Connected TV] VimpelCom's 'Beeline TV' IPTV service launches in Russia with ...: Russian telco VimpelCom, which tied up an agreement with Microsoft to deploy Mediaroom just under a year ago (see our previous post), has launched its Beeline TV service - the first implementation of Microsoft's IPTV technology in the Russian/CIS market. The move follows a successful commercial trial of the Microsoft platform by VimpelCom under the Corbina TV brand.

[Alan Quayle Weblog] Why is IMS getting lumped into IPTV? - Alan Quayle Weblog: Free and France Telecom are both now over 1.5 million IPTV customers, China Telecom and Verizon (its technically digital cable) are now over 2M customers, and even poor old BT and Deutsche Telekom are finally around the 500k customer mark. In mature markets with high broadband and PayTV penetration the key has been matching the existing packages of the satellite and cable providers, making it easy for customers to compare products: content packaging and price are key. 

[Telecom News on 4G, Wimax, Carrier Ethernet, IPTV, mobile apps and OSS/BSS | Telecoms Europe] Nokia opens Ovi store, finally, with glitch | Telecoms Europe: Influential blog TechCrunch called it a “complete disaster”, reporting that applications suddenly disappeared from the inventory and that the user experience was too complicated, with some basic search queries, like “games”, generating zero results. CEO needs to reconsider decision to stay in cellular market .

[IT Telecom and Consumer Electronics Research] IPTV: Ready to Rule: The worldwide subscriber base for Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) services is set to expand rapidly by 2010, inciting a war between video providers, both old and new. It has been estimated that global IPTV subscribers' figure will cross 63 million in 2010 from 5 million in 2005, with a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 65.99%.

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