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Korea Telecom 2Q08 IPTV Update

Mon, 2008-09-08 16:22 — Rabia Taseer

â€¢ Korea Telecom had 707k MegaTV IPTV subscribers at the end of 2Q08, an increase of 139k during the quarter. â€¢ MegaTV IPTV revenue during the quarter was $9.6 million U.S., up from $5 million U.S. in 1Q08....

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Hanaro Telecom 2Q08 IPTV and VoIP Update

Mon, 2008-09-08 16:24 — Rabia Taseer

â€¢ 800k IPTV subscribers as of end 2Q08. Added 100k subscribers during 2Q08. â€¢ hanaTV IPTV revenue was KRW 82 billion in 2Q08. â€¢ Hanarotelecom has achieved a market share of 9% through strengthened VoIP. â€¢ Wireline operators launched TV...

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Vivox opening up its platform

Mon, 2008-09-08 17:11 — JR

Vivox is planning to open up its platform to third party developers. Vivox provides a VoIP platform for developers of online games and virtual worlds. The first round of apps that the company expects from its developer partners include wide...

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Flash phone from Indafon

Mon, 2008-09-01 19:27 — JR

Flash phones were supposed to be hot this year. The market has instead seen only four players so far: Ribbit, TringMe, flashphone.ru, and this startup I came across yesterday - Indafon. I guess Ribbitâ€™s successful exit might speed up the...

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Huawei to deliver on the promise of reduced IP STB cost

Mon, 2008-09-01 15:33 — JR

Huawei will put a new IPTV Set-Top Box chipset in commercial use towards the end of this year. The chipset is supposed to bring down the cost of IPTV STBs to an affordable level. In its second design iteration, the...

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Asterisk module enabling wholesale hosted PBX services

Sat, 2008-08-30 16:45 — JR

I think you could make a business out of developing a module on top of Asterisk that enables wholesale hosted PBX services. Asterisk is not only being used for retail hosted PBX but also wholesale hosted PBX as well. I...

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DECT could win over WiFi for in-house wireless VoIP

Wed, 2008-08-27 19:57 — JR

Talking about creative ideas, here is a third idea of the day: A hardware add-on that can be plugged into an IAD (through an Ethernet port) serving as a base station for a DECT phone. That is what I thought...

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Managing multiple TV service providers on the same TV set

Wed, 2008-08-27 19:18 — JR

The idea of a wiki pluggin for MT turned out to be a self-inspiration. I have not blogged any creative ideas for long. But like the IP traffic, they travel in bursts. Incidentally we had a 2 hour break â€“...

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The 10 That Established VoIP - Free Download

Wed, 2008-08-27 13:16 — JR

I am putting up one of my papers for free download. I had hoped to make it available using a wiki pluggin for Movable Type so that the readers would be able to edit it. I have been looking for...

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Interview with Mark Kellett, CEO, Magnet Networks

Tue, 2008-08-26 16:11 — JR

It must be hard trying to sell hosted VoIP to SMEs in Europe. Which verticals have you found traction in? Certainly some of the verticals are adopting it much more quickly. Some of the traditional business segments such as legal...

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