Hawaii IPTV Service Launches
February 2007
NeuLion announced that its IPTV service was chosen by Hawaii IPTV for its Hawaii Television Network. Hawaii IPTV will deliver live and on-demand content consisting of various Hawaii programming including news, and other local TV shows.
Content is delivered over the public Internet, to the Hawaii IPTV set-top box (US$150). Customers need a broadband connection to use the service.
The company said that the goal of the Hawaii IPTV service is to “deliver the Hawaii experience to Native Hawaiians and Hawaii expatriates living away from Hawaii.”
For more information, consult our: MRG, Inc., February 2007 IPTV Bulletin
Ericsson and ARRIS Bid for TANDBERG
February 2007
In late February, Ericsson made a surprise bid for TANDBERG Television pitting it against ARRIS, which announced in January, that it was acquiring Tandberg for US$1.2 billion. Ericsson upped the offer to US$1.39 billion cash, which is about 10% more than ARRIS’ offer. Now it’s up to ARRIS to respond. News reports say that ARRIS is looking to make a counter offer, but nothing was announced so far.
Last month, Tandberg executives said they were backing ARRIS bid while calling the Ericsson offer "unsolicited." Still, if ARRIS does want to make a counter offer, it has to go through Ericsson since it owns a large percentage of TANDBERG stock.
For more information, consult our: MRG, Inc., February 2007 IPTV Bulletin
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