Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) has announced that Bell Aliant (TSX: BA.UN) has selected Harmonic's industry-leading DiviCom® Electra® 5400 standard definition (SD) encoders for its MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) upgrade.

Dreampark has announced that it has delivered its Dreamgallery™ TV middleware to Norwegian ISP RingNett. This new deal marks Dreampark's seventh client in Scandinavia, strengthening its position as the dominant middleware supplier in the region.

Telekom Austria (VSE: TKA, OTC US: TKAGY) has announced its results for the first half 2008 and the second quarter ending June 30, 2008. At the end of June, aonTV customers were up 27% on the previous quarter at 49.1 thousand.

Bouygues Telecom (Paris:EN) will launch its ADSL broadband service in late September. Bouygues will offer 'triple play', allowing subscribers access to unlimited telephone, television and broadband internet via its 'Bbox' set-top box.

Digital cable penetration has surpassed that of satellite television service for the last three years, according to new research by CTAM: Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing.

Reliance Communications has today started nationwide commercial operations of its satellite pay TV 'Big TV DTH Service'. The company also plans to launch IPTV in two to three months.

Synergy Research Group (SRG) has announces the availability of the Synergy Q2 2008 IPTV Market Share report, which shows the overall IPTV equipment market growing 30.3 percent year over year.

According to Ofcom’s latest annual report into the UK’s £51 billion communications industry, at the end of 2007 nearly 6 million households (23%) had a Digital Video Recorder (DVR) up by 53% in a year.

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) (Karachi:PTC) has announced the launch of PTCL Smart TV, a technological breakthrough of the first ever interactive television service in the country.

GVT (São Paulo:GVTT3) has announced the two finalists of its RFP process to upgrade its platform for IPTV. Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) and Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) have been selected to run trials of the service at around the end of this year.

Cyfrowy Polsat (Warsaw:CPS) has released its interim report for the three months ended June 2008. At the end of the quarter Polsat had 2,287,656 subscribers, 46.5% more than at June 30, 2007, when the figure was 1,561,711 subscribers.

Swisscom (Swiss: SCMN) posted a 17.6% increase in revenue to CHF 5,991 million for the first half of 2008. At the end of June 2008 'Bluewin TV' had 80,000 paying customers, up from around 40,000 at the end of June 2007.

ADB Holdings (SWX: ADBN) has reported results for the first half of the year 2008. High-definition TV (HDTV) product sales accounted for 67% of the Digital TV Equipment revenue, up from 49% in the first half of 2007 and 57% in the entire year 2007.

SingTel (Singapore: SGX; Australia: ASX) has announced its unaudited results for the first quarter ended 30 June 2008. The customer base for mio TV grew nearly 2,000 to more than 45,000 at the end of the quarter from a quarter ago.

Internet Protocol Television will be available from October, and fixed-line telecom providers KT, Hanaro Telecom and LG Dacom are already in fierce competition to win crucial business rights.

Amino Technologies (LSE: AMO) has announced its unaudited consolidated results for the six-month period ended 31 May 2008. Shipments of set-top boxes in H1 2008 were 256,000 units.

ETB plans to begin Colombia's first IPTV service in Bogota between March and April 2009.

Telecom Italia (Italy:TIT)(NYSE:TI) revenues were down 3.3% at €14,838 million, from €15,337 million in H1 2007. The IPTV service continued penetrating the consumer market with a portfolio of 180,000 clients, up 100,000 compared with Y/E 2007.

According to CCID Consulting, the number of IPTV subscribers in China at the end of June was 1.545 million. They expect that number to reach 5.229 million in 2012.

Consolidated Communications Holdings (Nasdaq: CNSL) has reported results for the second quarter and six-month period ended June 30, 2008. IPTV subscribers were 14,112, an increase of 4,535, or 47.4%.

Magyar Telekom (NYSE: MTA)(Budapest: MTELEKOM) has reported results for the first six months of 2008. T-Com Hungary had 15,569 IPTV subscribers and Crnogorski Telekom in Montenegro has 11,087 at the end of the period.

Deutsche Telekom (Frankfurt: DTE)(NYSE:DT) has announced results for the first six months of 2008. In Germany, around a quarter of a million customers have now opted for an Entertain package with fast Internet access and IPTV.

Portugal Telecom (Lisbon: PTC; NYSE: PT) has announced results for the second quarter and first half, ended 30 June 2008. Net adds for the 'meo' pay-TV service were 70 thousand in the quarter, more than doubling the subscriber base to 116 thousand.

Manx Telecom says it will soon be possible to watch digital TV using its broadband network.

Jasmine International (Thailand: JAS) is spearheading its broadband business into the arena of high-definition internet protocol television (IPTV) with a planned commercial launch, through its subsidiary Triple T Broadband, in October.

Widevine Technologies has announced that Chunghwa Telecom (NYSE: CHT) has purchased an additional 450,000 Cypher® Virtual SmartCard™ clients from Widevine to accommodate rapid expansion and in-home network proliferation with existing subscribers.

Entone has announced that their award-winning Hydra™ HD IP video gateway and Amulet™ HD IPTV receiver have been selected by Panhandle Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (PTCI) for their high-definition (HD) IPTV service rollout.

The first MPEG video ICs were designed for tethered devices that were powered via a wall outlet. Today the market for mobile MPEG video ICs in battery powered devices is greater than that of the market for MPEG video ICs in tethered devices.

Bell Aliant (TSX: BA.UN) has reported distributions to its unit holders of $92.1 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2008. For Aliant TV, the IPTV service, subscribers increased by almost 25 per cent in the quarter to just over 17,000 customers.

China Netcom (HKSE: 0906; NYSE: CN) began testing IPTV set-top box (STB) and system interoperability on July 30.