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SK Broadband, South Korea’s pioneer in starting ADSL broadband and IPTV video services, is trying to take back its leadership mantle it relinquished to rival KT with the recent debut of commercial IPTV. SK Broadband, the country’s No. 2 fixed-line service operator, was snapped up by SK Telecom last year.

Bosnia & Herzegovina (B&H) will see the launch of an IPTV service in the second quarter of this year. Known as Moja TV (‘My TV’), it will be operated by BH Telecom, the country’s leading telco company, and employ BeeSmart middleware supplied by the Slovenian systems integrator Smart Com.

The country’s leading telecom player Bharti Airtel Monday launched a service that allows subscribers to watch television programmes using the company’s Internet broadband facility in Delhi and the National Capital Region. The company plans to launch the service in eight cities including the metros, giving priority to Mumbai and Bangalore.

At the beginning of February, Telefonica Brasil and TVA will commercially launch the “TVXtrem” pay-TV service via an IPTV platform and with high definition content.

Industria recently announced a new Zignal Cloud™ service offering that utilizes Amazon Web Services™, including the Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). By leveraging Amazon Web Services, Industria drops the entry barrier of infrastructure costs to IPTV service providers, lowering the total cost of ownership as well as ensuring predictability of cost. Zignal Cloud™ is currently available by invitation only, but service providers can register to be included in the beta program at Industria.com.

Zignal Cloud™ offers anyone with access to the required content to become a TV operator, capitalizing on the latest technology and innovation in the IPTV space.