According to the latest overseas research shows that Western Europe's share of global Internet TV users two-thirds of Internet TV users.
The latest market research firm Canalys research indicates that the global IPTV industry's total revenue last year reached 10 billion U.S. dollars, more than 360 million subscribers.
The rapid development of Internet television services is the main Western European countries are willing to increased investment in networking technology a lot, which is leading the global market in Western Europe to go in the network causes the forefront of TV technology.
Canalys vice president Alessandra Fitzpatrick said: "Network TV network will quickly become the most complex and bandwidth of the largest network."
He said: "Many service providers have invested in network upgrades million euros on the investment, but is still unable to prove that when the number reached tens of millions of users across the network when the system performance will decline and whether the network response time longer,will cause the entire network or even paralysis. "
He added: "Service providers are facing another challenge on infrastructure, they must quickly learn how to ensure service quality in the management of a variety of charges under the premise of the system and cross-server, cross-content storage networkMethods. "
However, the current IPTV market is very concentrated, many areas have not yet a reliable service, so in the current network TV market, the top five vendors accounted for nearly 60% market share.
According to Canalys, said the company, the world's top three Internet TV service provider is PCCW (18.2%), France Telecom (16.8%) and France Free Telecom (14%).
Although Hong Kong's Internet TV market is already quite mature, but the industry generally believe that Asia will be the network television market, the development of the next hot spot.
In addition, the North American network television services will be another area of rapid development, AT & T Inc. and Verizon has begun to launch Internet TV service nationwide.