Broadband vision: IPTV is set to make substantial progress by 2010, according to a new report from Informa Telecoms and Media

摘要

IPTV is at a crucial stage in its development It is moving inexorably away from an experimental technology at the trial stage, into full commercial deployment The driving force behind IPTV is the telecom sector's need to move away from 'plain old telephony services' (POTS) - an area in which it is becoming progressively more difficult to turn a profit At the end of 2004 there were just 1.5m IPTV subscribers globally. This number is already growing rapidly, and is expected to reach 2.7m by the end of 2005. Rapid growth in the second half of the decade will see 25.9m subscribers by the end of 2010 - around 10 times the 2005 figure.