According to Portafolio, UNE-EPM Telecommunications will launch its IPTV service in March, making it the first company to offer IPTV in Colombia.

The service will include a total of 103 TV channels and in August the company will expand the service to include video on-demand and PVR functionality.

TANDBERG Television announced with business partner Balum Ltd. that its IPTV video headend and MPEG-4 AVC encoders have been selected by EPM Telecommunications UNE to deploy the first IPTV service in Colombia, South America. As a leading provider of Internet, VoIP and television services to this market, EPM's new IPTV service will be part of its competitive triple play package. The company will leverage the TANDBERG iPlex Video Headend Platform to provide Colombian viewers with more than 100 real-time channels and video-on-demand movies.

IPTV-Americas has selected the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS) to provide digital video content security throughout its digital video network. IPTV Americas is currently running trials of its turnkey IPTV solution with telecommunications carriers in Latin America and plans a full-scale launch in 2007. Visitors to the IPTV World Forum in Rio de Janeiro can visit Verimatrix at booth #2 and IPTV Americas at booth #11 to hear more details.

Brasil Telecom has chosen Widevine Technologies to protect its IP video service. Scheduled to launch in phases, the service enables subscribers to view a variety of Hollywood content and local programming on set top boxes, home media gateways and, eventually, PCs.

UTStarcom, Inc., a global leader in IP-based, end-to-end networking solutions and services, announced that the company has signed a contract with Telpin, a telecommunications operator in the Atlantic Coastal region of Argentina, to deploy its iAN-8000 Multiservice Access Node (MSAN) in order to broaden its subscriber base and deliver triple play services.

UTStarcom, Inc., a global leader in IP-based, end-to-end networking solutions and services, announced that the company provided its mVision end-to-end IPTV solution for a recently completed trial of triple play services in Brazil with Telemar, which will make IP-based television and multimedia services available to its customers utilizing the IP protocol. Today, Telemar offers 15 million fixed lines of telephony service, 8.1 million cellular lines and almost 700,000 Internet lines to the Brazilian market.