Wireline broadband to get boost from IPTV, OTT service

The consumer's appetite for managed IPTV and over-the-top (OTT) video is having the added effect of expanding broadband into an additional 745 million homes worldwide by 2017, indicates a new Digital TV Research study. As reported in FierceIPTV, the market will grow from 473 million in 2010 and 578 million by the end of this year. Leading the majority of the growth will be China with 73 million households and India with 22 million, respectively. Read more