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  • Bobaliki, on 05/06/2008, -6/+20Dammit why are Scandinavians on the top of every type of list!
    • Topher28, on 05/06/2008, -5/+2There are only 2 Scandinavian countries on the list. Sweden, which is 1/3 of the way down the list, and Norway, which is 4 from the bottom of the list, so I'm not quite sure what you're on about.
      • Velok, on 05/06/2008, -1/+0I'm guessing this is not the complete list?
        This is top 15 in the world......

        (I'm also guessing Bobakili counted Iceland as scandinavian)
      • tauntz, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1I guess he also counted Estonia - that's basically scandinavia..
      • ryanknapper, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1He's an American. Of course he doesn't know where in Australia they keep Scandinavia.
        • akilleen, on 05/06/2008, -1/+1Oh shut up, we know it is near South Africa.
    • widgetmaker, on 05/06/2008, -4/+5rtfa, they aren't
    • oreo2123, on 05/06/2008, -1/+4what else is there to do in Scandinavia?

      I'd hate to see my personal internet usage if I lived there - I'd prolly make it past porn and digg...eventually.
    • xyqxyq, on 05/06/2008, -2/+2They are given most of their spots by intimidating the list author with vikings.
    • itsfullofstars, on 05/06/2008, -1/+4Because they're not caught up in ridiculous money wasting wars and concentrate their countries tax revenue on infrastructure, among other things. Americas current direction is ALL WRONG.
  • TresTriste, on 05/06/2008, -5/+2I'm watching the Playboy Channel as we speak! I love the internet.
    • gurm, on 05/06/2008, -1/+5Yes, there are a lot of stuff you can watch on the internet, but the article/image is about television over internet, IPTV, not stuff you can watch in a browser by connecting to an ISP. You get a digital receiver and connect it to your router and your TV and you're channel surfing as seamlessly as using any other type of TV reception. It's fairly cheap and you get excellent clarity, perfect for HD viewing.

      And I'm Icelandic and can verify those numbers, about every 4th household has IPTV here.
  • imacbook, on 05/06/2008, -5/+3BT Vision
    • robbiemuffin, on 05/06/2008, -5/+1no advertising ... jeeez, at least advertise an IPTV product!
      • sl9sl9, on 05/06/2008, -1/+2BT Vision is an IPTV product, you insensitive clod! It combines both IPTV (4oD's service) and DVB-T (Freeview).
  • blankoboy, on 05/06/2008, -4/+32Not sure why Japan isn't on this list. I've had IPTV with my 100MB (up and down) FTTH for the last ~4 years. The US populace needs to get their corrupt government and telecoms fixed up and get things moving over there to get out of the Internet stone age.
    • delta013, on 05/06/2008, -2/+8100MB? I hate you...
      • blankoboy, on 05/06/2008, -1/+13........also with no download caps and IP Telephony services for ~$45/month. =)
    • Pzycho, on 05/06/2008, -6/+17Not everything has to do with corruption. The US is a bit more spread out than a place like Japan, and that makes a big difference.
      • priegog, on 05/06/2008, -1/+3I agree, but corruption, alongside stupid laws and anticompetitive practices would be something like 98% of the blame. Size and population is a pretty common excuse for these kinds of things (and some others like healthcare), but the reality is that economy does scale and there isn't a reason why the US couldn't have a fiber optic running to every house.
      • blankoboy, on 05/06/2008, -1/+17I always hear the "US is much more spread out" excuse thrown around but this doesn't hold water as all the major city centers just as densely populated. There is no reason why these urban hubs could not be wired up and run the same way as Japan and other countries with true "high speed" internet, were it not for the government and telco corruption.
      • dlk289, on 05/06/2008, -0/+0It's about curruption and greed. Why would any telecom company want to put down fiber optic cable? they can charge 20-60 for a lan phone, 20-60 for internet, and then another 20-50 for cable TV. This is why the telecom companies hate vonage. If they have faster internet someone will make a vonage-like TV distribution system losing them money.
    • blackgt93, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1We've got FTTP here in our neighborhood (and IPTV) but nowhere NEAR 100Mb, more like 1.5Mb...

      BOOOOO!!!!!!!!
      • jhandfield, on 05/06/2008, -0/+0Off the top of my head, I'd suspect that the major cross-country lines couldn't handle the average person wielding a 100Mbps connection. And you know that there would be outraged articles all over the Web from people arguing that [provider] is ripping them off since their download speed to [website] isn't a full 100Mbps.
    • stustyle, on 05/06/2008, -2/+1It's not the corruption as it is that so much money is going toward Iraq and not enough is available to rebuild our infrastructure.
  • Zaggy111, on 05/06/2008, -1/+9I have HD IPTV :) (Croatia)
  • coudboule, on 05/06/2008, -2/+6France alone accounts for 40%. Triple play service (which includes internet broadband, phone and television and costs around €30 a month) is very popular there. One ISP even offers its subscribers their own television channel that can be viewed directly on a television.
    • priegog, on 05/06/2008, -3/+2Haha you just phrased that so wrongly I'll jst sit back and watch you getting mocked. I agree with what you were trying to say, tho. Spain is rapidly going in that direction too (where I live), but to be honest as far as I'm concerned Bittorrent is my IPTV.
      • coudboule, on 05/06/2008, -1/+1Yet there are still some cases where Bittorent has not caught up with a good ol' tv, like live sport events. Even if some solutions exist, they suck for the most part.
        • priegog, on 05/06/2008, -1/+2I agree, but I think there is a portion of the population (which would coincide with digg users probably) who couldn't care less for sporting events. Or big brother. There are certain things that need to be watched live (presidential debates and whatnot) and on those occations I watch OTA TV. I was also not proposing bittorrent as a substitute for normal TV (altho it makes a pretty damn good one), I was just saying what works for me.
    • robbiemuffin, on 05/06/2008, -1/+1well, ok ...but, according to that chart, france accounts for around 6%, right?
      we have on-demand video in the leading cable services in america, ... if you start counting things that only seem like IPTV, the numbers change a lot
      • priegog, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1Yeah, but that's not the case with france. It's full-blown cable coming via the ADSL line.
  • smashhell, on 05/06/2008, -3/+2Yeah ! Yeah !
    Hong Kong Asian Pride !
  • aahpandasrun, on 05/06/2008, -4/+1America not on the list again, go figure. By the way, what IPTV anyway?
    • chanop, on 05/06/2008, -2/+23we're still trying to figure out the metric system
    • GiggleStick, on 05/06/2008, -1/+10Are you aware of the verb "to be". You had 2 opportunities to use it, and did not. Makes you sound like a caveman. Are you a caveman?
      • robbiemuffin, on 05/06/2008, -1/+2one of the better grammar-nazi comments I've read in a long time :)
  • coffee200am, on 05/06/2008, -4/+4Gee...paying for HDTV....when it's offered for free..I might think "How Progressive!".
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  • gislib, on 05/06/2008, -1/+3I live in Iceland and as it stands now, only one of the three major broadband providers are offering IPTV, with a second provider finishing tests of their IPTV system. Once the second provider starts offering IPTV, Iceland will go straight to the top of that list.
    • Doitdifferently, on 05/06/2008, -1/+2This comment will likely get dugg down for not being relevant but oh well.

      I have to say if I could move to Iceland I would. I swear the more I hear about that place the more awesome it sounds, even though the government style seems odd to me. Too bad Icelandic is such a bitch to learn and there are only 5 people in the US who teach it :(
      • gurm, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1Language shouldn't really be the main factor when deciding on whether you should move to another country or not, and especially not with a country like Iceland where, although the native tongue is a bitch to learn, almost everyone speaks English.
  • coffee200am, on 05/06/2008, -6/+1From http://www.broadbandtvnews.com

    Financial high for CME
    The US investment company CME (CME Group Inc., formerly Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc.) enjoyed a significant upturn in its financial fortunes in the first quarter, its net revenues of $223,470,000 (€143,181,163) being 51% up on the corresponding period in 2007. Its operating income was meanwhile 236% higher at $44,676,000, and net income of $14,895,000 contrasted with a loss of $250,000 12 months earlier. Although the Czech Republic remains by far its most lucrative market, with segment revenues of $85,558,000 and EBITDA of $43,845,000 in Q1 2008, second placed Romania ($57,996,000 and $23,376,000) continues to perform exceptionally well. However, improvements were posted across the board in all six CEE markets the company is present in. CME projects revenues of $1.1 billion and broadcast segment EBITDA of $440 million this year, with particularly strong growth in its new media businesses. The US investment company CME has secured 60% ownership of the Ukrainian national commercial station Studio1+1 by completing the registration of a 42% stake in Studio 1+1 LLC via a Ukrainian subsidiary. Given that CME already held an 18% indirect stake in Studio 1+1 LLC, which is the licence company of the Studio 1+1 Group, it now owns the station’s broadcasting licences. CME launched Studio 1+1 with local partners in the mid-1990s and now also includes three more services – Studio 1+1, the movie channel Kino and entertainment-based Citi – in its Ukrainian portfolio.

  • Mr8lack, on 05/06/2008, -1/+3I watch everything online. We have a projector for games & movies and got rid of the tv about 6 months ago... who likes sitting through 20 minutes of commercials each hour?
  • Grumps, on 05/06/2008, -1/+3We're yet again missing from the list. Pioneer of the internet.
    • robbiemuffin, on 05/06/2008, -1/+1Britain has a weak showing in industry .. and they started the industrial revolution :)
  • logotype702, on 05/06/2008, -2/+0I have IPTV, I am not in any Scandinavian country but Houston Texas....uverse...
    • cookiemn, on 05/06/2008, -1/+1Unfortunately you can only watch one HD channel at a time.
    • vcuares, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1HD quality sucks too, but then again it is STILL IPTV.
    • plamoni, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1I have U-verse, too (in St. Louis, MO)... It's still a "work in progress"... but they're making it better all the time...

      cookie: New subscribers and some current subscribers in St. Louis are getting 2 HD streams now...

      vcuares: The HD quality is pretty good in my experience. Not quite as good as OTA, but certainly good enough. Plus the SD quality is really good... better than my cable was...
      • vcuares, on 05/10/2008, -0/+0Its OK, I can live with it. I have it for a year already. Compared to COMCAST / TIME Warner, there is a big difference in my opinion. ditto on the SD quality, its the best imo.
  • Stevo23, on 05/06/2008, -4/+3We already have this in the US. It's called bittorrent.
  • bobjewback, on 05/06/2008, -1/+1the kid in the picture has to be Dewey from Malcolm in the Middle
  • itsfullofstars, on 05/06/2008, -1/+1Whatever happened to good old American innovation?? Being the best and first?? This is and should be a major embarrassment to the USA.

    Shame.
    • iloveliberals, on 05/06/2008, -0/+0Good old America invented the internets. Not innovative enough for ya?

      How about GPS? The American military created that, and continues to offer that service, free, to the world.
  • BOFH2, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1My sister has it. Works well if only 2 tvs are going on non HD signals - My mom is in the apt downstairs so if she is watching tv and my sister is some of the HD stuff pixelates
  • Branbot, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1SPACE EVERYWHERE!!!11?? Run guys ruuuun! It's in my shower! ***** RUN!
  • ahac, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1I guess one reason for iptv popularity in come countries is that many people don't have access to cable tv.
    On the other hand... if people can choose from ftth, dsl and cable (all offering phone, tv and internet) then this forces the companies to compete and offer better (more channels, vod, etc) and cheaper service... which ofc means that more people will use it.
  • Genghis1, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1I have IPTV through ATT U-verse. It's cheap and works great. I live in Illinois.
    Much better than Charter cable.
  • dstz, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1"France alone accounts for 40%. Triple play service (which includes internet broadband, phone and television and costs around €30 a month) is very popular there. One ISP even offers its subscribers their own television channel that can be viewed directly on a television."

    We don't have Google but we have Iliad-FreeTelecom. God bless.
  • threetoedkoala, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1some might say they have it all!
  • diggadigga, on 05/07/2008, -0/+1If we could make this work in America, it would be an epic blow to the powerful conglomerates. It would make an 'open source' TV possible; any organization could have a channel.

    This would result in the writers and actual creators of TV shows (no more unsatisfied writers) get more pay for their work, instead of the money going to the big network executives. Also, more alternatives to the media. The old media is so corrupt, so incompetent, it would be very easy for competition to blow them out of the water.
  • kowalzki, on 05/07/2008, -0/+1Was ist das? Why is it any better than the cable? Anybody, pleasw?
  • Culyt, on 05/07/2008, -0/+1Is there much in the way of international IPTV providers? The only Australian offering is from TPG and there mostly just free channels like NASA-TV, 6 Chinese channels and a PlayboyAdvertising channel.
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