A year with IPTV

For many people IPTV may not even mean much, but as an industry there has been a lot of movement within the whole sector like:

Top Market Developments in 2007:

Fast web (in Europe) has begun to offer its TV package.
Advertising-funded VOD trials have begun in Europe.
It’s the best year yet for net additions for IPTV.
PlayStation 3 activated for IPTV in South Korea.
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 is capable of acting as a set-top box.
France’s Iliad Group successfully equipped every broadband customer of Free Telecom with a free box IPTV set-top box.
France Telecom hit 1 million customers for its IPTV services across Europe.
IPTV reached more than 10 million subscribers globally this year.
Free Telecom (Free box) reached 1 million IPTV subscribers.
Microsoft’s service providers started deploying IPTV to their customers in quantity.
Providers are getting serious about advertising and content.
The U.S. is being seen as finally starting to catch up with the rest of the IPTV.

Although the main users of IPTV are from Europe, the business is beginning to gain some momentum with more and more companies seeing that this is a good opportunity.