Analysing Converging Technologies http://www.cable-satellite.com Al Jazeera English has become the first news organisation to use Inmarsat's new BGAN X-Stream mobile broadband satellite service, which enables streaming of broadcast-quality video from the field. http://www.cable-satellite.com/news-15-05-09-Al-Jazeera-BGAN-X-Stream.php Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom has selected BigBand Network's MSP2000 to deliver advanced advertising video solutions on HD and standard definition, and content in both MPEG2 and H.264 for the operator's Multimedia-On-Demand service, which had more than 700,000 subscribers at the end of 2008. http://www.cable-satellite.com/news-22-05-09-BigBand-Chunghwa-Telecom-IPTV-edgeQAM.php Russian telco VimpelCom has launched its Beeline TV service in what is the first deployment of Microsoft's MediaRoom solution in the Russian/CIS market. http://www.cable-satellite.com/news-15-05-09-VimpelCom-launches-IPTV-Moscow.php Transport solutions specialist Net Insight has received an order from DR in Denmark for a contribution network for video and Ethernet services. http://www.cable-satellite.com/news-15-05-09-Net-Insight-Denmark-win.php The customer base to BT's IPTV Vision service reached 423,000 customers at end-March 2009, a net rise of 25,000 users compared to Q4 2008. http://www.cable-satellite.com/news-15-05-09-BT-Vision-IPTV-subscribers.php Virgin Media is planning to expand its network infrastructure, which currently passes some 12.6 million homes in the UK, according to reports in national press. http://www.cable-satellite.com/news-22-05-09-Virgin-Media-network-expansion.php