Tuesday 9 October 2007

Europe shows 230% growth in IPTV services in the last 12 months

New broadband and IPTV statistics shows that Europe has the largest growth in IPTV services subscription in the last 12 months, overtaking Asia Pacific, with 230% of growth rate. France is the world leader with 2.5millions IPTV subscribers. The future growth of IPTV will be boots by the continuous deployment of ADSL2+, as DSL remains the major broadband access medium representing ~66% of global broadband services. However, the world leader in IPTV service, France Telecom and Hong Kong’s PCCW, both have invested in FTTH (fibre to the home), as DSL (copper wire) bandwidth cannot be guaranteed over distance.

O2 has recently announced the launching date of its broadband service to be on 15 October 2007. O2 broadband service will base on its Broadband Internet arm – Be*, which offer up to 24Mb connection using ADSL2+. This will give O2 a great platform to provide “quad play” services (Internet, TV, voice and mobile) to compete with “triple play” (Internet, TV and voice) provided by incumbent fixed line operator such as BT.


Oct 09, 2007
telecomasia.net

The number of people signing up to IPTV service increased by 179% in the 12 months to June 30, 2007, according to Point Topic.


The report, published Monday at the Broadband World Forum Europe in Berlin by the DSL Forum, reveals that over 8.2 million people are now connected to IPTV services.

Over three million subscribers were added in Europe during the period, making it the strongest market in terms of growth (231% in 12 months) and total subscriber numbers (nearly five million).

Asia Pacific is the second largest market of IPTV, with its total subscriber base growing 120% to nearly 2.2 million, followed by Americas with over one million of IPTV subscribers, up 161% during the period.

“Top markets like France (2,550,000 customers) and Hong Kong (938,000 customers) show that IPTV can be deployed rapidly to large numbers of subscribers, if the market conditions are right,” said Point Topic senior analyst John Bosnell.

“On the demand side, competitive and clear bundle pricing and content deals will help to attract customers to IPTV services, while on the supply side, making IPTV easier to install and develop will help to deliver IPTV services to a wider subscriber base.”

Bosnell added that developing and agreeing to standards will help to simplify the delivery process and drive higher take-up in other markets too.

Western Europe continues to have the most broadband users, with 72 million of the 86 million broadband subscribers using DSL.

The Eastern Europe DSL market, while small at less than 14 million, had the strongest growth at over 60% in the 12 months to June 30.

The US has the most broadband subscribers (over 63 million), but China tops the DSL subscriber list with over 44 million of its 59 million broadband users connected via DSL.

According to the study, 15 countries now have over three million DSL subscribers, and 29 have over one million subscribers.

DSL remains the most popular access technology, with over 200 million, or 66% of the world’s 313 million broadband subscribers connecting via DSL.

The global market share of broadband technologies remains largely unchanged from December 2006, with almost 22%of subscribers using cable, and just over 10% using FTTx.

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