- February 13, 2025 — Orange has released results to December 31, 2024. The company finished the year with 11.058 million IPTV and satellite subscribers, down 8,700 in the quarter, and down 86,900 year-on-year.
- February 13, 2025 — U.S. MVPDs, plus Ampersand and the VAB, have announced unified guidance on multiscreen TV advertising terminology, aiming to align the industry around the various TV advertising delivery types.
- February 12, 2025 — United Group has agreed to sell SBB Serbia to e& PPF Telecom. The Group has also agreed to sell Eon TV International (the holding company of NetTV Plus) to Telekom Srbija.
- February 2, 2025 — Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC) has released its 2024 Communications Market Report analysing both international and domestic telecoms and broadcasting industries.
- February 4, 2025 — Vodafone has announced results for the quarter ended 31 Dec. 2024. The company's TV customer base declined by 69,000 in the period, with the migration of MDU customers in Germany largely completed.
- January 30, 2025 — Telia Company (STO: TELIA) has reported results for the period January–December 2024. Across the Group, TV subscriptions were 3.555 million at year-end, up 81,000 in the quarter and up 125,000 YoY.
- January 30, 2025 — Broadpeak has announced that TELUS is using Broadpeak's origin packager, running on Google Cloud, to reduce its infrastructure costs while enabling it to provide a superior QoE.
- January 29, 2025 — Netgem has announced revenue of €33.8M for 2024, with growth in its recurring revenue of 6%. The company's ended with a streaming subscriber base of more than 700,000 households in Europe.
- January 24, 2025 — Verizon Communications (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) has reported fourth-quarter 2024 results. Consumer reported 47,000 Fios Internet net additions and 60,000 Fios Video net losses in the quarter.
- January 23, 2025 — Chunghwa Telecom (TAIEX:2412, NYSE:CHT) has reported results for 4Q 2024. The company's IPTV/MOD + OTT video platform ended the year with 3.330 million subscribers up 151,000 in the quarter.
- January 9, 2025 — Oi and Mileto have agreed the sale of Oi's pay TV operations to a special purpose company, which will then be sold, after approval by the Judicial Reorganization Court, in a competitive process.
- January 7, 2025 — 24i and STRONG have announced that m:tel Banja Luka has successfully launched ON TV, an IPTV and OTT service powered by 24i's pay TV solution and STRONG's Android TV Operator Tier set-top boxes.
- December 23, 2024 — SEI Robotics has partnered with Elisa to launch in Estonia a Netflix-certified Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos Android TV audio-visual soundbar. The Elisa Minibar will be showcased at CES 2025.
- December 20, 2024 — Swisscom has received clearance for the acquisition of Vodafone Italia from both the Italian Competition Authority and the Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy (MIMIT).
- December 12, 2024 — GCI and Xumo have launched the Xumo Stream Box for GCI's internet customers. Xumo Stream Box is a 4K streaming device powered by Comcast's entertainment experience, Entertainment OS.
- December 6, 2024 — According to Anacom, at the end of 3Q 2024, there were 4.1 million residential subscribers to pay TV in Portugal, 59 thousand more (+1.5%) than in the same quarter of the previous year.
- November 26, 2024 — Bouygues Telecom has selected Skyline Communications's DataMiner to enhance operational efficiency and optimize service quality of its IPTV/OTT offerings.
- November 22, 2024 — EQT has signed an agreement to sell Melita to Goldman Sachs Alternatives. Melita delivers digital services, including broadband, mobile, TV, and data centre solutions, to customers in Malta.
- November 21, 2024 — Adara has implemented a solution to allow Aster Tecnodisa to continue operation of its SA, Cisco and Technicolor PowerKEY set-top boxes beyond the timeout date in November 2024 for all such boxes.
- November 14, 2024 — ocilion is opening up access to integrated premium apps on its P500 set-top box series. Prime Video and YouTube are the first to be rolled out to ocilion's network operator customers.
- November 12, 2024 — Vodafone Group has announced results for the half-year ended 30 Sept. 2024. The company's total TV customer base declined by 2.9 million in the period, mainly due to the MDU transition in Germany.
- November 12, 2024 — Vecima Networks (TSX: VCM) has completed initial linear parity ad insertion for Hotwire Communications, moving the provider toward dynamic ad insertion (DAI) in 2025.
- November 8, 2024 — Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB and LBTYK) has announced that it has completed the previously announced spin-off of its Swiss business, Sunrise, into a separate publicly traded company.
- November 7, 2024 — Telefónica has presented results for the third quarter of 2024. In Spain, Pay TV net adds were 49,000 for the quarter. Elsewhere Pay TV subscribers fell 44,000, resulting in net global growth of 5,000.
- November 7, 2024 — BCE Inc. (TSX: BCE) (NYSE: BCE) has reported results for the third quarter of 2024. Bell added 9,197 retail IPTV subscribers to finish the quarter with 2,133,397 retail IPTV subscribers in total.
- November 6, 2024 — Türk Telekom Group has announced third quarter 2024 results. TV Home recorded 20k net additions and maintaining its subscriber base at around 1.5 million.
- November 6, 2024 — MwareTV has implemented IGADO+, a video streaming service dedicated to the Ethiopian market. IGADO+ works in conjunction with Ethio Telecom to deliver the service over broadband and mobile.
- November 5, 2024 — KT has launched its 'KT Genie TV Set-Top Box 4', the first in the IPTV industry to support 8K. The box includes AI technology for optimal picture and sound quality, and personalized features.
- October 31, 2024 — Swisscom has released results for the third quarter of 2024. Over the quarter, the number of TV connections dropped by 12,000 to 1.499 million, down 2.7% year-on-year.
- October 29, 2024 — Green Streams has integrated Swisscom's TV and video backend and CDN with its Media Integration Platform and frontend applications to create an IPTV service for operators in Switzerland.
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