5:45 AM -- Swedish incumbent Telia Company has reported an impressive ramp in its IPTV subscriber numbers for the fourth quarter, adding 84,000 new customers to take its total to just above 300,000 at the beginning of 2008. (See TeliaSonera Hits 300K.)

That kind of uptake is going to help the Scandinavian giant retain a place on our Top Ten: IPTV Carriers.

It holds ninth place, but, when the ranking is updated with fourth quarter data, it could improve its position, depending on how Belgacom SA (Euronext: BELG), in eighth place, performed during the final three months of 2007.

Check out the current Top 10, which is dominated by European operators, by clicking on this link.

— Ray Le Maistre, Couch Potato Editor, Light Reading