Tag Archives: IPTV

Pay-TV Market in Spain: IPTV wins

Posted on March 25, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

One out of two new Pay-TV users in Spain sign up with Telefonica’s IPTV service, Imagenio. Orange IPTV Service is the second one attracting new users with a 21% share in 2007. The table below is based on data from … Continue reading →

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AT&T U-verse: True Convergence

Posted on March 4, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

AT&T launched recently its U-verse Voice service to complement its Quadruple-Play offering: TV, Internet, Voice and Wireless. U-verse Voice is a high-quality digital voice service. The service is delivered over AT&T managed IP network, which guarantees a secure and reliable … Continue reading →

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How will Telcos fill the pipes?

Posted on February 27, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Telcos keep investing in improving their broadband networks: from ASDL to ASDL2+ to VDSL and now  Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH). FTTH will enable bandwidths in the order of 100 Mbps, both for downlink and uplink. Telcos are investing important sums to bring fiber to the users: … Continue reading →

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Blue-ray or HD DVD? The Hard Drive

Posted on January 10, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Blue-ray is winning the battle for the next-gen DVD. Warner has announced that they will release high-definition movies only in Blue-ray format starting July. With Warner announcement, Sony has secured support for Blue-ray from most of the big film studios. … Continue reading →

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Telecom, Internet and Media in 2008

Posted on December 31, 2007 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Technologies that will transform our lives in 2008 Telecom Wimax. Asia will lead in 2008, where greenfield operators will deploy Wimax networks in Taiwan, Japan, Korea and Malaysia. Wimax has strong support for end-devices, with Intel and Taiwanese vendors among … Continue reading →

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iPhone: Friend or Foe? Can Mobile Operators avoid turning into pipes?

Posted on December 15, 2007 by Jose Miguel Cansado

There are two major conflicting trends in Telecommunications : 1) Internet driven: the intelligence and applications move to the end-devices (Smartphones, laptops, Servers…) 2) Telcos driven: Operators need to retain control of the Services delivered through their networks On example … Continue reading →

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