Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Global Internet Protocol Television Services Market 2011–2015

TechNavio's analysts forecast the Global Internet Protocol Television Services market to grow at a CAGR of 22.2 percent over the period 2011–2015. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is IPTV services acting as a revenue channel for telecom operators amidst falling average revenue per user. The Global Internet Protocol Television Services market has also been witnessing high customization of IPTV Services and a shift towards triple-play services. However, content availability and the high cost of IPTV services could pose a challenge to the growth of this market.

The Open IPTV Forum and MPEG Industry Forum announce they have reached agreement to merge the assets of MPEGIF into the OIPF.

The activities of the MPEG Industry Forum have reached a natural and successful conclusion with the emergence of MPEG-4 Part 10, alternatively known as H.264, as the dominant codec in next generation video technology and the proven successor to MPEG-2.

As in 2011, when the Broadcast Mobile Convergence Forum merged into OIPF, which followed the Internet Streaming Media Alliance merging with the MPEGIF, these asset mergers represent natural consolidation in a maturing industry - the positive result of cross-industry consensus on fundamental technologies. Now, in an ever converging, cross-media, global market, the challenge going forward is to enable interoperability across increasingly complex connected consumer devices and services on a global scale. This is the mandate of the specifications developed by OIPF and the clear logic behind the consolidation of MPEGIF’s efforts and assets into the OIPF.

iTV.cn has just signed a cooperative agreement with Phoenix North America Chinese Channel, from which the two parties will jointly serve the Chinese people all over the world with their complementary advantages in content and platform.

iTV.cn is invested and set up by UTStarcom, which puts out an internet TV platform servicing the whole world. It continues to explore new altitudes of TV experience, leads and represents the technology standard and service trend of intelligent TV. It is iTV.cn that first introduced multi-screen integration technology in the overseas Chinese market, which allows viewers to watch TV program through mobile devices such as TV, PC, iPad and iPhone.

Phoenix has always made its purpose to "bring the Chinese people all over the world closer" and provided high-quality Chinese programs for Chinese people across the world. At present, Phoenix Television Corporation consists of Phoenix Chinese Channel, Phoenix InfoNews Channel, Phoenix Chinese News and Entertainment Channel, Phoenix North America Chinese Channel, Phoenix Movies Channel and Phoenix Hong Kong Channel.

The Middle East and Africa’s premier broadband event to include larger programme with more operators and industry players than ever

Broadband MEA, the region’s premier broadband event, is expanding its programme in 2012, making it the most informative and insightful conference yet. Leading operators, Etisalat, STC, Sudatel Telecom Group and du, are already on board, as well as vital industry content players and industry ‘game changers’ such as Google and Al Jazeera.

The conference, which takes place from 25 – 27 March, already has an exceptional speaker line-up, made up of prominent industry experts, including Nasser Bin Obood, CEO at Etisalat UAE, Dr. Saad Zafer Al Kahtani, CEO Strategic Operations at STC and Hatem Bamatraf, Senior VP of Network Development and Operations at du.

Broadband MEA held from the 25 – 27 March 2012 is the region’s premier broadband event attracting 1,000 decision makers from across The Middle East and Africa. Now in its 4th year, the event is the only place to meet the entire industry under 1 roof.<

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "IPTV Global Forecast: 2011 to 2015 Report" report to their offering.

The February 2012 IPTV Global Forecast - 2011 to 2015 is the latest revision of the earlier edition published by MRG, Inc. in August 2011. It incorporates the most recent information on current IPTV deployments around the world, as well a forecast for IPTV subscribers, service revenue, and system revenue from 2011 to 2015.

In total, this report breaks down the IPTV ecosystem into nine industry segments: DSL Subscribers, IPTV Subscribers, Access Systems, Video Headend Encoder Systems, Video-on-Demand Server Software Licenses, Set-top Boxes, Middleware Software Licenses, Content Protection/Digital Rights Management Software Licenses, and System Integration and Professional Services.

A new report from Juniper Research finds that growing user satisfaction with mobile TV on tablets will push average monthly viewing times to 186 minutes per month in 2014.

The Ideal Device

The report, 'Mobile TV: Applications, Devices and Opportunities 2012-2016' finds that as users become more accustomed to viewing content on tablets, and as a wider range of content becomes available on tablets, consumers will increase their viewing times. This increase will be most apparent in North America where there is already significant mobile TV usage, and where internet TV services such as Hulu and Netflix are extremely popular. A tablet is the ideal device on which to consume mobile TV content -- their large screen sizes and intuitive user interfaces allow almost everyone to browse for and watch content.

Orange Business Services and Solidere, the Lebanese company for the development and reconstruction of the Beirut Central District, have renewed and enhanced a five-year telecoms infrastructure contract.

Both companies showcased the network and associated applications to the corporate, business and residential customers in the district during an exhibition held from February 17-19 at the Beirut Souks.

For the past five years, Solidere has been delivering an on-demand IPTV channel service in its flagship development in Beirut, offering a range of movies, sports and TV programs that stream directly to residents’ TVs over the market-leading, broadband network, which Orange designed, built, and operates on behalf of Solidere.

By 2015, the number of IPTV subscribers globally is expected to grow from 53 million in 2011 to 105.1 million, with a CAGR of 18.7%, whereas the service revenue for the world IPTV market will grow at a CAGR of 20% to reach USD 45.3 billion. With certain regions such as Europe and North America having seen very good IPTV subscriber growth, there are still areas like Latin America and Southeast Asia that have not got under way with IPTV and where major government and regulatory issues still need to be dealt with.

IPTV service providers tend to move away from pure-play IPTV services and add new and innovative ways to deliver content to their customers, which enables them with more flexibility necessary to meet new threats from competitive pay-TV services.