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.

Kasenna announces that the Clarksville, Tennessee Department of Electricity has deployed a new digital video service based on Kasenna LivingRoom middleware and MediaBase video servers. The new video service, called CDE Lightband, is a triple-play offering that features 200 channels of high-quality digital video, an interactive programming guide, and video on demand service, along with 10Mbps Internet and telephony services.

With this deployment, CDE becomes one of the leaders of a new trend for utilities to reduce operating expenses and leverage their infrastructure by offering new services to subscribers. The CDE was interested in deploying fiber to properties in its service area near Nashville in order to implement automated meter checks. With a network proposed, however, the utility realized that it could drive new revenues by adding triple play services to the network. In a citywide referendum held in late 2006, the CDE plan was approved by 72 percent of voters.

Avail Media announced a collaboration with Motorola to deliver MWAVE ("MPEG-4 Wide Area Video Entertainment"), a combination of equipment and services that will enable IPTV service providers to rapidly launch new entertainment services over their high speed data networks.

MWAVE is capable of transporting Avail Media's more than 200 SD channels and more than 20 channels of HD content for access by operators who want to quickly launch a suite of television services without the capital expense and time constraints of building a complete video headend.

Telefonia Bonairiano “Telbo” has selected the Amino AmiNET125 multi-codec STB to power “mitv”, the first IPTV service in the Caribbean island of Bonaire over ADSL2+ network.

This innovative IPTV service was developed by Telbo N.V., Savant Communications N.V. and Manycast Consultancy Inc. and is considered to be the showcase model for the Telbo partner telecom companies, covering an additional 24 countries.

The AmiNET125 deployment offers Telbo the opportunity to provide subscribers an enhanced IPTV platform, which goes beyond traditional triple-play services. The AmiNET125 platform is specifically designed to help operators in emerging markets introduce IPTV services with a flexible and cost effective approach.

Calix announces the wide deployment of Calix 700G GPON Optical Network Terminals across the state of Minnesota, providing advanced information, communication, and entertainment services over fiber to the premises networks. Service providers deploying the 700G line of ONTs for residential and business use include Paul Bunyan Telephone Cooperative, Garden Valley Telephone Co., and Consolidated Telecommunications Co.

Taking advantage of Gigabit Ethernet subscriber interfaces on each 700G ONT and a shared 2.5 gigabits per seconds across each gigabit passive optical network implemented on the Calix C7 multiservice access platform, these service providers are offering their customers bandwidth-intensive IPTV services, including HDTV, as well as massive data capacity and lifeline POTS services over their fiber infrastructures.

Yankee Group claims that IPTV will redefine pay TV in the United States. IPTV will change the competitive landscape for subscription services by morphing the service from one-size-fits-all traditional broadcast TV into an open, flexible, customizable offering, tailored to the needs of local communities. By 2011, more than 9 million households in the US will subscribe to telco-provided video service.

IPTV’s influence in the communications field and on consumer communications services in the US is driven by the impact of the global connectivity revolution on business and market dynamics. As a result, we are witnessing massive transformations taking place in media and entertainment and communications industries. With the digitization of content and the internet as a platform, both industries are morphing from structured, linear ecosystems to open and fluid sectors influenced by greater consumer control.

MTS Allstream will move forward with steps to introduce next-generation high-speed Internet and TV services to Manitoba customers, with more HDTV offerings, personal and digital video recorder functionality, improved guide features and other advances. The new services will be powered by a combination of network connectivity provided by Alcatel-Lucent Canada and the award-winning Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV and multimedia platform.

MTS Allstream is entering into agreements with both Microsoft and Alcatel-Lucent that will enable the company to introduce an initial set of services on a limited basis in 2008. A trial location outside of Winnipeg is being considered.

As American sports fans prep for Super Bowl XLII Feb. 3, Sky Angel becomes the latest to ink an agreement to offer the official network of the National Football League, NFL Network, as part of its new IPTV channel line-up.

Subscribers to Sky Angel IPTV will soon be able to watch NFL Network as well as its Video-On-Demand, which has been rated No. 1 among sports on-demand options for features such as extended game highlights and award-winning programs from the NFL Films library.

NFL Network prides itself on being the preeminent source for football fans by televising more than 200 NFL games, including 52 preseason games, eight regular season games, three college bowl games and an assortment of original programs and past Super Bowl and classic games.

ROO Group announced a plan to accelerate its path to profitability and refocus the Company on a device-agnostic IPTV enablement strategy in international markets. Chairman and CEO Kaleil Isaza Tuzman said, "We are taking operational steps to improve the short-term performance of ROO Group by focusing on revenue generating initiatives in our core business, while exiting non-core activities and reducing our cost structure."

Isaza Tuzman continued, "The first step on the revenue side for 2008 entails increased sales focus on markets outside of North America, where IPTV demand is strong but the competitive landscape in IPTV enablement is underdeveloped. At the same time, we are implementing cost-cutting activities and prioritizing fiscal discipline in our home market. We believe that these initial steps in our 2008 realignment will have a beneficial impact on the bottom line and enable us to hit profitability in the second half of the year."

China International Television Corporation and KyLinTV have agreed to provide global distribution of the Great Wall TV Package on KyLinTV's IPTV platform. KyLinTV consolidates Great Wall content from Europe, Asia and America to provide the most comprehensive and in-depth channel collection to its viewers. Starting in February, KyLinTV will offer the Great Wall Package in North America. This is the most expansive Great Wall Package comprised of 20 channels including: CCTV-4 and CCTV-9 which are major domestic and international news channels, Chinese Movie Channel, CCTV-Opera, CCTV-Entertainment and various provincial channels that keep Chinese living in North America connected to their hometown.

Hargray Communications has deployed the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System for IPTV solution to secure broadcast and VoD content on its Broadband TV service. Hargray delivers wired and wireless telephone, high-speed Internet and cable and IP television services to 100,000 customers in Hilton Head Island and the surrounding areas of South Carolina and Georgia.

Hargray is a telecom independent operating company that provides voice, video, data, wireless, high-speed Internet, and directory publishing services. As the 22nd largest IOC in the United States, Hargray has been one of the leaders in IP services deployment with incredibly deep experience in the delivery of video to its subscriber base.

Telefonia Bonairiano launches IPTV under the name of “mitv” to its residential and business subscribers. Telbo became the first in the Caribbean and Central America to establish a triple play offering.

Bonairean telecom operator Telefonia Bonairiano NV has launched its Digital TV over ADSL 2+ network enabling residential and business customers to fully benefit from the triple play offering. Besides around 110 live quality channels the offering will also include 50 Audio Channels, Pay-Per-View and Video-on-Demand.