KyLinTV announces the addition of Malaysia's Jia Yu Channel and Asia Travel TV from Taiwan to its IPTV platform, still another move aimed at meeting the increasingly diversified programming demands of the overseas Chinese community. Both Mandarin and Cantonese speaking viewers will now be able to enjoy the fine programs offered by the two channels.

Sky Angel adds several significant upgrades to their nationally-available IPTV subscription service. These enhancements include upgraded security features, greater wireless router support, ongoing additions to the VOD library and other features that provide subscribers with more ability to determine what programs they watch on their schedule.

Existing Sky Angel customers automatically receive this software upgrade to their Sky Angel IPTV set-top box. The upgrade is integrated upon activation and installation for new subscribers.

Entone's Hydra IP video gateway has been chosen by Interstate Telecommunications for their IPTV rollout. ITC provides local telephone, digital television and broadband services to subscribers in South Dakota and Minnesota. ITC has been providing telecommunications services to its communities for over 50 years, and now offers a triple play service bundle of voice, video, and data using Entone’s Hydra IP video gateway.

In spite of satellite television technology, many African immigrant groups are unable to obtain cultural programming in North America. Vidvo.tv is filling the service void for this growing demographic in the United States and Canada with its subscription-based IPTV broadband service. Designed to be practical and affordable, Vidvo’s programming includes television channels from countries such as Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Sudan, and Senegal.

Canby’s IPTV customers can now access 36 channels of HD programming, including more than two dozen channels delivered to Canby via IP-PRIME, from marquee programmers such as Discovery, Disney, Showtime, Fox News, ESPN, A&E and the Food Network, plus a handful of local broadcast services.

IP-PRIME delivers a comprehensive roster of high-quality standard and high-definition programming in MPEG-4 format to operators via a single satellite antenna. The IP-PRIME HD-4 service delivers up to 40 national high-definition channels to operators looking to add high quality HD programming to their existing IPTV service. In addition to the HD-4 offering, the IP-PRIME full transport solution offers hundreds of programming channels to operators without the high capital and operating expenses required to build and operate an IPTV headend.

JumpTV and NeuLion announce a new partnership with nTouchTV. NeuLion is now extending its unique service to Romanian audiences in North America. nTouchTV will be providing Romanian content to consumers' televisions through NeuLion's set-top-box technology.

In response to the rapid expansion of the Romanian community in North America, nTouchTV has partnered with NeuLion to meet the growing demand for Romanian-language content. The service is now available throughout the United States and Canada catering to over 1.7 million people of Romanian descent living in North America.

West Kentucky Rural Telephone Cooperative has selected Aware’s Dr. DSL Line Diagnostics Platform as its IPTV and DSL line testing solution. The Dr. DSL Line Diagnostics Platform is an advanced test and diagnostics server-based solution that, when used in conjunction with West Kentucky’s installed access equipment, offers a comprehensive, centralized system for analysis and diagnostics of the carrier’s DSL lines.

Entone's Hydra HD IP video gateway and Amulet HD IPTV receiver have been selected by Panhandle for their HD IPTV service rollout. Panhandle is a progressive IPTV and digital cable provider with "quad-play" residential and business communication services throughout the Oklahoma Panhandle and portions of the Texas Panhandle. Services include local and long-distance telephone, DITV and digital cable TV with 140+ channels, TV web surfing and DVR, high-speed Internet and wireless service with free mobile-to-mobile.

KyLinTV adds mainstream English channels to its current Chinese program line-up. The English Channel Select Package is now available to U.S. subscribers through a partnership between KyLinTV and Sky Angel. Sky Angel IPTV is a leading television broadcast service offering family-friendly programming. The newly added channels include Fox Business Network, Fox News Channel, Discovery Channel, Discovery Kids, Animal Planet, Blue Highways TV, CBS College Sports, Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Movie Channel, Military Channel, NASA TV, NFL Network, Pentagon Channel, Planet Green, QVC, The Sportsman Channel, Tennis Channel, Visual Arts Network and The Weather Channel.

IPTV Network Services has successfully deployed the Latens ECOsystem to enable its IPTV offering. Latens ECO provides IPTV Networks with a single platform comprising next generation middleware and Latens’ highly regarded Conditional Access for the secure delivery of advanced content services.

The affiliates of IPTV Network Services have been offering state-of-the-art telecommunications services in the state of Utah for more than 50 years, providing local, long distance, high-speed Internet, and other business services to over 45,000 residences and businesses in many counties.

IP-PRIME and NHL Network announced that NHL’s 24-hour suite of hockey in both HD and SD will be available to IP-PRIME operators across the United States. This announcement represents a key addition to IP-PRIME’s bundle of more than 30 sports channels within its 300-plus SD and HD television lineup.

NHL Network gives viewers unprecedented year-round, 24-hour access to the most complete hockey coverage available today, including news, classic match-ups, documentaries, analysis, highlights and more. NHL Network will provide comprehensive coverage of the 2008 NHL Entry Draft on June 20-21 from Scotiabank Place in Ottawa and will broadcast 75 live games all in HD for the 2008-09 regular season.

KyLinTV announces Macau Asia Satellite TV, MASTV, will debut for the first time in North America on KyLinTV and provide more international content to its Asian audience. MASTV offers quality programming on news, global finance, world events, entertainment, cultural shows sports and more. The news programs cover reports from Macau, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China and international topics. MASTV also offers Mandarin dramas and Korean variety shows.

As the first television channel from Macau available on KyLinTV, MASTV focuses on promoting the prosperity and peace of the worldwide Chinese community. This mission mirrors KyLinTV's goal to encourage Chinese culture and language through the use of IPTV technology.

IP-PRIME announces a major enhancement to its sports programming lineup through a new agreement with NFL Network, to bring the network’s 24-hour suite of football programming to telecom carriers using SES AMERICOM’s IP-PRIME IPTV service. IP-PRIME is the first truly “turnkey” IPTV solution that delivers the most robust and comprehensive array of digital and HD programming to IPTV providers in North America.

NFL NETWORK is the destination for all that happens around the sport of football, on and off the field – during the season and throughout the off-season. NFL Network airs seven days a week, 24 hours a day on a year-round basis providing viewers with nearly 2,000 hours a year of original programming (NFL Total Access, NFL GameDay, Point After, NFL Replay, Playbook, Red Zone, College Football Now, NFL Top 10, NFL Scoreboard), eight live prime time NFL regular season games as well as 52 preseason games, college bowl games, NFL Scouting Combine and other cutting-edge, enhanced TV applications.

Executives at GTA TeleGuam are gathering around a crisp video picture gleaming off of a new, high definition television set. After months of planning and hard work, the team's wait for the first-ever HD signal on the island of Guam delivered in all-digital, IP format is now over. HD has made it to Guam.

GTA reached out to CSI Digital in 2007 as a way to deliver all-digital IPTV services to its subscribers. All-digital IPTV would allow GTA to deliver superior quality television services and be fully competitive with the incumbent cable company. CSI Digital has extensive experience in IPTV delivery, having already initiated IPTV services in seven locations nationwide. CSI Digital's partner in the deployment is Avail Media. Avail Media is an innovator in IPTV linear and VOD content aggregation and has worked extensively with CSI Digital to ensure high-quality television service delivery to operators over multiple broadband network types and configurations.

Sogetel has purchased Occam’s Broadband Loop Carrier 6000 solution to complete a significant upgrade to its network, enabling the service provider to offer VoIP and IPTV services to its subscribers. Sogetel maintains offices in Nicolet, St. Paulin, Lac Etchemin, St. Liboire and other locations in the province of Quebec.

Sogetel maintains 26,000 access lines and offers subscribers landline and wireless local and long distance phone service and high-speed broadband services. Engineers are deploying Occam equipment at more than 35 sites across Sogetel’s service area, with a plan to offer VoIP and IPTV over Occam BLC blades. Sogetel has purchased Occam’s BLC 6252 POTS and ADSL2Plus combo blade and BLC 6214 ADSL2Plus blade. Sogetel is also using BLC 6450 blades to accommodate 10G transport rings to accommodate IP traffic increases.