European IPTV Growth Predicted

RNCOS: Recently, a number of IPTV or Internet protocol television networks have been deployed aggressively across Europe. These include namely France Telecom, Italy’s Fast Web and Spain’s Telefonica. Even Scandinavian countries are seeing a number of competitive offerings for deploying IPTV networks.

The European subscriber base of broadband television services is expected to grow twofold in the current year and is likely to exceed beyond 4 million by 2008. At present IPTV transmitted over broadband networks has very low penetration level in Europe, with only 0.2 percent of the households with televisions. However, within the end of the period up till 2008, there will be more than 6 million houses beaming with IPTV in Europe, explaining the near five percent increase of overall subscribers of pay television.

Facilities that have been discussed for long time – such as video-on-demand - are at last within the reach of the customers. In fact users have never before been offered so many options related to television content. The commotion in the past 18 months has definitely had a constructive influence on the IPTV industry all over Europe. Adding to the growth momentum the European union will start shifting from analog to digital entertainment, which will make IPTV a necessity.

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