New Opportunities for Partnerships Among OTT, CE, and Pay-TV in Europe

Tuesday, November 03, 2015

Europe has served as an early market for new online video services. As the wave of OTT video breaks across European markets, new opportunities for partnerships are opening up among OTT services, CE manufacturers, and pay-TV providers. Parks Associates research finds 45% of European broadband households own a smart TV, with the highest percentage in Germany, where over 50% of broadband households have this Internet-connected CE device.

Additonal Parks Associates research shows:

Sales of smart TVs will exceed 23 million, and Western European consumers will buy nearly 13 million streaming media devices in 2015.
57% of broadband households in the U.K., 29% in Spain, and 24% in Germany subscribe to an OTT service.

Parks Associates analysts will address pay-TV, OTT, and other connected entertainment trends at the tenth-annual CONNECTIONS Europe conference, taking place 10-11 November in Amsterdam. For more information, visit www.connectionseurope.com.

Parks Associates would like to thank the following companies for sponsoring this year’s CONNECTIONS Europe conference as an Advisory Sponsor:

Tyco Security Products is a unified group of world-leading access control, video, location based security an intrusion brands. With the most trusted brands in security, they offer the most comprehensive range of premium security solutions in the industry. With over 2,000 employees in offices around the world, they support global, local and regional customers to the highest level with sales, technical support and customer service.

The ULE Alliance is an international association, which promotes the worldwide allocation and market adoption of the ULE technology, the leading control network ecosystem for home and building use. The ULE Alliance is based in Bern, Switzerland with founding and promoter members: DECT Forum, Dialog Semiconductor, DSP Group, Gigaset and Vtech, and contributor member companies: Arcadyan, AVM, Cisco, Crow, DeutscheTelekom, Lantiq, Panasonic, RTX and Sercomm.

Avi Barel, Director Business Development at ULE Alliance, will be speaking for “Seamless Interoperability: Driving Mass-Market Adoption” on Wednesday, November 11 at 1:45pm.

UXP Systems’ MINT User Lifecycle Management (ULM) platform is powering today’s operators as they transition to a user-centric, digital world of entertainment, communications, and connected life services. MINT ULM is transforming service experiences for operators like TELUS, Rogers, Cable & Wireless and Cable Bahamas, to simplify user journeys while unifying and personalizing access to digital services for every household user across traditional and cloud services. With its groundbreaking ULM capabilities, MINT ULM innovates above existing legacy systems to transform the user experience, enabling frictionless user registration and device on-boarding, new user acquisition models, delegated user access, and individual user profiles across all screens and services.

Sumit Parab, Director of Product Management for UXP Systems, will be on the panel for “IoT: Adding Value to the Smart Home Experience” on Tuesday, November 10 at 1:30pm.

Z-Wave technology and is an open internationally recognized ITU standard (G.9959). It is the Leading wireless home control technology in the market today, with over 1200 certified interoperable products worldwide. Represented by the Z-Wave Alliance, and supported by more than 300 companies around the world, Alliance members lead the home controls market, providing leading edge products and systems that deliver increased comfort, convenience, energy conservation, safety and security and aging in place. The Z-Wave standard is a key enabler of smart living solutions for deployment in all channels from service providers to etail and retail, security companies, builders and installers, as well small business and commercial and hospitality. With over 35 million end devices in homes, Z-Wave is a key enabler of the Internet of Things.

Mitch Klein, Executive Director at Z-Wave Alliance, will be on the panel for “Seamless Interoperability: Driving Mass-Market Adoption” on Wednesday, November 11 at 1:45pm.

The ZigBee Alliance offers the open, global wireless standards that enable everyday objects to work together and help you control your world. ZigBee standards are the leading standards for monitoring and control used in consumer, commercial and industrial markets around the world. The Alliance is an open, non-profit ecosystem of more than 400 organizations developing and promoting standards defining the Internet of Things for use in homes and businesses.

Mark Walters, VP of Strategic Development at ZigBee Alliance, will be on the panel for “Seamless Interoperability: Driving Mass-Market Adoption” on Wednesday, November 11 at 1:45pm.

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