July 2008

Espial overeating

Tue, 2008-07-01 17:12 — JR

Kasenna acquisition gives Espial a leadership position in IPTV VoD, and at the same time strengthens the companyâ€™s middleware portfolio. Espial will pay $6.7 million (in shares) to acquire Kasenna. Kasenna has one of the most advanced and open IPTV...

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Interview with Donovan Jones, CEO, CounterPath

Tue, 2008-07-22 14:11 — JR

Over the last two years you seem to have shifted focus from PC centric communications to mobile centric communications. What opportunities do you see on the mobile side? Many of our customers are mobile operators as well. So unifying the...

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Verimatrix closes another round of funding

Fri, 2008-07-25 11:44 — JR

Verimatrix, the pay-TV content security vendor, has closed Series C round of funding. The company is not disclosing the amount. The total amount from prior rounds adds up to $23m, which includes $2m in angel investments that were not announced....

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Telenor 2Q08 VoIP Update

Fri, 2008-07-25 11:59 — Sabiya Naaz

â€¢ VoIP subscribers in Norway 136K. Added 3k new subs during 2Q08. â€¢ VoIP subscribers in Sweden 212K. Added 3k new subs during 2Q08. â€¢ VoIP subscribers in Denmark 116K. Added 9k new subs during 2Q08....

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TeliaSonera 2Q08 IPTV Update

Fri, 2008-07-25 12:01 — Sabiya Naaz

â€¢ TeliaSonera ended 2Q08 with 427k IPTV subscribers. â€¢ Added 20k new IPTV subscribers in 2Q08. â€¢ Country by country results include: Sweden ended with 320k IPTV subscribers, an increase of 2k in 2Q08. Norway ended with 8k IPTV subscribers,...

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KPN 2Q08 VoIP Update

Fri, 2008-07-25 12:05 — Sabiya Naaz

Added 60k new VoIP subscribers during 2Q08. Total subscribers: 983k. VoIP subscriber base represents 44% penetration into broadband accounts. Netherlands VoIP market: KPN 983k subscribers; Cable 1.17 million subscribers; Others 320k. Total around 2.47 million subscribers. 21k VoIP business lines...

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Belgacom VoIP and IPTV 2Q08 Update

Mon, 2008-07-28 12:24 — Sabiya Naaz

â€¢ Added 42,210 new IPTV subscribers during 2Q08. At the end of June 2008, the total Belgacom IPTV subscriber base was 391,460 â€¢ IPTV ARPU: EUR 17.6 compared to EUR 15.7 a year ago â€¢ Added 8k new VoIP subscribers...

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Verizon and AT&T 2Q08 IPTV Update

Tue, 2008-07-29 09:25 — Sabiya Naaz

AT&T: 549k IPTV subscribers, up 170k from previous quarter. Verizon: 1.4 million IPTV subscribers, up 176k from previous quarter. IPTV penetration averaged 19.7 percent across all markets, up from 13.3 percent. IPTV available for sale to 7.0 million premises....

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Vonage has another go at mobile VoIP

Wed, 2008-07-30 13:16 — JR

This is Vonageâ€™s second attempt at mobile VoIP. We saw the first iteration some three years back when Vonage teamed up with UTStarcom to offer single mode Voice-over-WiFi. UTStarcom supplied the handset. Having a handset dedicated for just mobile VoIP...

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Interview with Emerick Woods, CEO, GIPS

Wed, 2008-07-30 13:27 — JR

I guess the first major success GIPS had was Skype. You have been behind Skype which became a big phenomenon. You also have new startups like Nimbuzz as your customers. Who in your opinion has the right strategy in place...

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