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BT Targets Added Services With Broadband Video
News According to Digital-Lifestyles, Burke also said that BT's IPTV device will combine a digital terrestrial television receiver with a broadband receiver, allowing it to receive television signals through the air and also down a user's broadband...
[September 28, 2005, 17:15]
BT Picks Microsoft Platform For IPTV
News BT has announced it will use Microsoft's TV IPTV Edition software platform to deliver video-on-demand over broadband in the UK. The launch of the IPTV service could encourage broadband take up. The combination of Microsoft technology with BT's 21st...
[June 29, 2005, 12:40]
Sky May Shake Up UK Broadband Market
News It can't just be about IPTV, or video-on-demand, or straight broadband access. It could also offer IPTV over the broadband link, rather than broadcasting by satellite. As well as buying an existing broadband ISP, Sky is rumoured to be considering...
[October 13, 2005, 18:15]
BT Keeps Riding The New Wave
News BT's shift into the consumer internet protocol television (IPTV) arena is likely to disrupt the market, according to Cansfield, as BT now has a broadband base of three million customers. BT is due to launch its IPTV product this autumn.
[November 9, 2006, 12:08]
Analyst: Beware The Telecoms Mini-bubble
News Godell put particular emphasis on the introduction of IP-streamed television (IPTV), which his report suggests is a case of vendors selling telcos inflated figures despite a lack of success stories or, indeed, a viable standalone business model.
[June 9, 2006, 14:35]
BT Invents Semantic Television
News However, the idea in the long run is for tailored programmes to go out on IPTV platforms such as BT Vision, launched last week. BT has taken a leading role in the creation of the world's first "shape-shifted" television programme.
[December 12, 2006, 23:00]
BT Sees Low Demand For Video Among SMEs
News Lindsay also described BT's current infrastructure for unified communications — including VoIP, videoconferencing and IPTV — as "probably good enough for those people that are using it today". Demand for videoconferencing capabilities from BT's...
[September 5, 2007, 13:49]
Orange Brings It All Together
News Spanning fixed-mobile substitution (FMS), broadband, Voice over IP, VPN and IPTV technology, not to mention plans for IP-based home security systems, the former telco's offerings may even address the country's digital divide.
[May 31, 2006, 16:00]
The Internet Service Provider Is Dead. Long Live The Internet!
Leader That means IPTV, triple-play services, perhaps home security - basically, whatever an innovative supplier can provide. For the economics to work it's got to unbundle BT's exchanges, and BT will do everything it can within the rules to slow the...
[June 9, 2006, 14:35]
Opera Powers Broadband TV Decoder
News The company has established a foothold in a technology that some analysts see as a major emerging force in the next few years: television delivered over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, or IPTV. The Opera browser will be used in an interactive TV...
[March 28, 2003, 12:53]
Can Telewest Avoid NTL Hell?
Leader In a market dominated by giant telcos and international media companies, economies of scale are essential: nothing smaller than a nationwide company can afford to compete with BT and Sky in the forthcoming adventures of IPTV.
[October 3, 2005, 16:10]
Unlimited-broadband Offers To Go 'within A Year'
News PlusNet has been one of the few providers to buck this trend — preferring instead to offer packages based on fixed download caps — and is now warning that the emergence of IP television and the BBC's iPlayer will make it impossible for its rivals...
[March 14, 2008, 14:10]
Schoolgirl Gets BT's 21CN Rolling
News One such product — the IPTV service BT Vision — will arrive next month, BT announced on Tuesday. The first customer migrations to BT's next-generation communications network have begun in the Welsh village of Wick.
[November 28, 2006, 12:55]
Northern Ireland First To Get 21CN Completion
News The 21st Century Network (21CN) is currently being rolled out across the UK to offer a platform for high-bandwidth services, such as IPTV, and is expected to be fully completed in 2011. Northern Ireland will be the first region in the UK where BT's...
[February 22, 2007, 11:42]
BT's Broadband TV To Be Delivered By Philips
News As reported earlier this year, BT has also chosen to use IPTV software from Microsoft for its broadband TV project. Previously, BT had said it was aiming to launch in the summer of 2006, but in Wednesday’s announcement it said it hope to offer the...
[October 27, 2005, 11:55]
100Mbps Broadband A Reality By 2007
News ADSL2+ is really being hyped at the moment, but a lot of the bandwidth on their cables will be taken up by IPTV. UK Online and Be are planning to roll out 24Mbps ADSL2+ services later this autumn in London, potentially stealing a march on BT's...
[September 23, 2005, 16:55]
Media And Technology 'won't Merge'
News In the UK, BT has repeatedly denied that it plans to move into the content creation market, even though it is developing an IPTV service that will run over its broadband network. Over the last six months, media giants have been increasing their...
[February 10, 2006, 10:55]
Mobile Services Find Few Fans
Talkback If I want to watch movies I'll use my TV while I wait for IPTV to become more easily accessible (without me having to subscribe, install yet more software or accept inferior viewing quality). I already pay a TV licence fee, BT line subscription and...
[July 5, 2006, 12:40]
BT: Google Is Our Biggest Threat
News Ramji also referred to the challenges that lay ahead in BT’s expansion into IP-streamed television (IPTV), with its BT Vision service. Google is becoming BT’s biggest competitor. That’s the surprise assessment of BT’s chief information officer, Al...
[June 8, 2006, 13:15]
BT To Show Premiership On Broadband
News Hundreds of Premier League football matches from 2007 to 2010 will be available on pay-per-view over BT's broadband network, the telco announced on Thursday. A BT spokesperson told ZDNet UK that the football would "enhance [BT’s] offering, as...
[May 25, 2006, 17:25]
