IPTV now serves over 50 m customers globally

The Broadband and IPTV Growth Report presented at the Broadband World Forum in Paris this week, shows that broadband continued to show healthy growth in the first half of 2011.

Prepared for the Broadband Forum by industry analysts Point Topic, the figures reveal the broadband subscriber total at the end of June 2011 is now standing at 557.8 million subscriber lines, up by over 29 m lines since the start of this year.