Broadband Future

� 366,000 Swedish households have access to IPTV | IT Facts — Your Daily Research Synopsis | ZDNet.com: "Sweden is one of Europe's most active IPTV markets. Both Viasat and Canal Digital have made their packages available over broadband Internet in recent months. Viasat is available on broadband provider Bredbandsbolaget's fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network to 300,000 households, 2,300 of which had signed up to the service at first quarter 2005. Canal Digital is available on nine FTTH city networks across Sweden, reaching 66,000 households. Both Viasat and Canal Digital hope that by offering their packages on IP networks they can extend their subscriber base. Incumbent telco TeliaSonera launched a pay TV offering in January 2005"