Telco TV continues to grow as new players around the world get on the bandwagon and existing players increase their footprint, penetration, content, and range of services. This report discusses key players including AT&T, Verizon, France Telecom, Telefonica, Deutsche Telecom, and China Telecom as well as other incumbent and emerging operators around the world.
While triple play has always been the name of the game, increasingly quadruple- as well as double- and single-play offerings are coming on to the scene. Catch-up TV has gained tremendous popularity around the world. And convergence applications are emerging as Microsoft’s Mediaroom platform gains traction.
Content is at the same time going more international, ethnic, and local. This year saw a clear trend toward content geared toward immigrant population, especially in Western Europe. In small towns in North America, there are interesting experiments that revolve around producing very local content. Spreading content across as many platforms as possible is motivating players to introduce PC and mobile phone-based video offerings that complement their telco TV offerings.
This report discusses where telco TV services are growing, who is providing telco TV, how successful they have been to date, and what types of services are being offered. Worldwide five-year forecasts for subscribers and subscription revenues based on ARPU are included.
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