The Egyptian telecommunications market generated US$6.4 billion in service revenue in 2010, having grown at 21% CAGR over the previous two years, according to Pyramid Reserach. And, while this period represents the peak growth phase, Pyramid suggests the country will remain one of the fastest growing markets in Africa and the Middle East going forward, mainly due to the promise of increased mobile broadband penetration and the value added services that high speed internet access can bring. Point Topic identifies a similar trend, indicating that the mobile telephony and broadband segments are starting to overtake all other telecommunication segments in the country.
In this busy emerging African market, our Dreamgallery™ middleware solution will power IPTV services from Egyptian Advanced Multimedia Systems, an Egyptian provider of IPTV services. The Nilesat Satellite will be used to transmit the multicast streams and VOD content to Regional Headends in the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf area, and EAMS project is expected to implement an average of 50 regional head ends every year for the first five years of operation.
After numerous successful deployments in Europe and mainly in developed markets, we are excited to extend our reach to offer Dreamgallery’s flexibility for regionalized administration and customization needed for this type of operator such as EAMS. Based on the dynamic nature of our platform and its ability to fit a variety of deployments, we look forward to helping more and more service providers to offer an exciting multimedia and content experience to viewers across the region.
IPTV Global growth is estimated to reach 50.5 million subscribers this year with revenues topping $12.2 billion, according to Multimedia Research Group (MRG). IPTV News says that IPTV services will reach 70 million subscribers in the next 4 years more than double the end-2009 total of 26 million. IPTV has made watching TV in the living room more dynamic with a more incredible user experience. The worldwide IPTV market has been growing at a rapid pace but this year the promise and potential for IPTV will really come forth, especially for Dreampark.
Dreampark has been celebrating the many successes that 2009 brought. Despite the recession that has gripped the world over the past year, in 2010 we plan to expand the company with new hires by 30% in order to meet the demands from existing customers and respond to new business opportunities.
Dreampark has seen a huge demand for its Next Generation Portal, scheduled for release in Q1 2010. The Next-Generation Portal Generator brings the Dreamgallery Middleware “What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get” graphical user interface to a new level giving operators full control of their TV portals for customization and regionalization. Allowing operators to see changes take effect in real time makes it easier than ever for them to create a business portal and push revenue generating opportunities to customers.
By 2014, IPTV penetration will be above 10% of TV households in 17 countries around the world, according to the report from IPTV News. At Dreampark, we’ll do our part by staying committed to being the most deployed IPTV Middleware in Europe.
In late October we attending IPTV Forum Eastern Europe. The IPTV World Series event had a special focus on Russia/CIS region and Quality of Experience issues. Dreampark was there to focus on its strength in Easten Europe and to show off our SVG and Portal Generator.
According to a recent Informa Telecoms & Media report on Eastern Europe, IPTV is emerging strongly in Central and Eastern Europe, as telcos in the region start to upgrade their broadband networks and think seriously about providing pay-TV services. Markets such as Croatia and Hungary already have three or more IPTV services in commercial operation, while Slovenia’s Telekom Slovenije recently passed 100,000 subscribers for its IPTV service ‘SiOL TV’, and continues to upgrade its network to fibre.
Dreampark continues to expand its presence and deployments in Eastern Europe in Latvia with LIVAS, Slovenia with TUS TELEKOM and Croatia with OiV in cooperation with CS Computer Systems.
Here is what else we were up to at the IPTV Forum Eastern Europe in Prague. You can also see what Ben Schwarz from VideoNet News thought about Dreampark’s demonstrations at the IPTV Forum EE here.
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