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Fontes: Newsletters do FierceIPTV / Alerta Google 28/03/06 How will cable and satellite respond to IPTV? "Cable and DTH players will seek to pre-empt the IPTV value proposition. They will emphasize and drive up the cost of content, move to IP, and ultimately, consolidate. DTH players in particular will also look at IPTV as an alternative distribution platform for their high-priced content." This exclusive white paper excerpted from a top selling Pyramid Research report "Transforming Telcos with IPTV," examines the competitive reaction by Comcast and DirecTV through case study analysis. Download the full 15-page whitepaper now. 23/03/06 1. Disney sees opportunity in telecom networks The Washington Post reports that this week's TelecomNEXT show had an unusual guest--Walt Disney CEO Robert A. Iger, speaking volumes about the transformation of an industry. For Iger, these networks offer Disney a new way to deliver to consumers its vast array of content. However, like the advent of television in the 1940s, home video recorders in the 1970s and DVDs in the 1990s, the new technology reopens the question of how the people who create content and those who deliver it will split the pie of entertainment revenues. Andrew Jay Schwartzman, president of public interest law firm Media Access Project, comments that Iger is rooting for the phone companies, but with some trepidation. Whether Disney makes money in the future is going to be profoundly affected by whether, when and how the telcos get into distribution. Yankee Group analyst Adi Kishore is of the opinion that a content owner can benefit from creating a fragmented distribution universe. This proliferation of delivery systems will give media companies more opportunity to play them off each other and to extract higher prices. Working with AT&T and Verizon could give Disney new, unconventional ways to deliver its shows. But the phone and cable companies want to charge more to media companies, Web sites and other content providers to deliver the high quality of service to watch video. So, if Disney wants to rent movies to its customers from its own Web site rather than selling them to the cable or phone company, it may have to pay network owners more for the privilege. Some analysts believe that big entertainment companies like Disney have the money to pay for priority delivery, and can always refuse to sell content to the phone companies. Stifel Nicolaus telecom regulatory analyst Blair Levin comments that it's about optimizing revenues today so that another distribution pipeline gets built out to maximize revenues tomorrow. University of Colorado law professor Philip J. Weiser points to the iPod deal as a fascinating glimpse into the sorts of arrangements that may become prevalent, but whether content is king remains to be seen. To learn more about Disney's look at telecom: PLUS: News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch argued last week that content was "king" in this digital age, but newspapers need to embrace the iPod generation or risk losing out in the digital world. Article 2. DT, Microsoft to launch IPTV in Germany Following close on the heels of Telecom Italia commercially launching its IPTV service using Microsoft, Deutsche Telekom (DT) has also announced that it will use Microsoft TV IPTV Edition software platform to deliver IPTV services across Germany and France over its VDSL broadband networks. Microsoft will support Deutsche Telekom with joint marketing. The VDSL network, which is currently being extended by T-Com, will permit bandwidth of up to 50 Mbps and is planned for launch starting mid-2006 in 10 major German cities including Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne and Munich. Customers will receive regular TV programs and advanced television services, including standard- and high-definition programs, interactive TV, DVR and VoD. AT&T (even excluding BellSouth) is Microsoft's largest IPTV customer worldwide, and now Deutsche Telekom is its largest customer in Europe. This brings Microsoft's IPTV trials and commercial customers to a total of 13. For more on the DT launch: PLUS: Microsoft reportedly is ready to launch Windows Live Video. Article 3. Verizon to pay CBS for shows run on IPTV Verizon will pay CBS about 50 cents per subscriber for the right to carry its TV stations on Verizon's FiOS TV and is also in talks with AT&T. Securing payment for the right to carry CBS programs has been a priority for CBS CEO Leslie Moonves since his company split from Viacom in January and he hopes that this will put pressure on cable operators to pony up for its programming. As marketers shift more ad dollars from TV to the Internet, CBS sees subscriber fees as important to revenue growth. Moonves says that subscriber fees could pump hundreds of millions of dollars into the company. CBS' strategy is to capitalize on the increasing competition between cablecos and telcos to deliver TV to people's homes. Verizon's FiOS TV reaches only about 1.3 million people in seven states and the company needs TV content to keep growing. The deal gives Verizon the right to carry CBS' 18 owned and operated stations to reach about 35 percent of the U.S. Forrester Research media analyst Josh Bernoff says that "Verizon is stuck. They need content, and they don't have much of a negotiating position." Analysts question how much leverage such deals will give CBS when agreements with cable companies start to expire next year. In any case, this may end up increasing the cost for the subscriber. For more on this deal: PLUS: EU regulators approved a new Time Warner-CBS venture in which their respective WB and UPN networks will combine to form a new broadcast network called CW. Article 4. TV won't halt declining fixed telco services Analysys finds that growth in TV and video services delivered over broadband will fail to halt the swift decline in the value of Western European fixed telecoms services in the coming years.
For more on this report: PLUS: BT announced that its national next-gen TV service will be called BT Vision and will be launched in the Autumn. BT Vision will provide digital terrestrial TV with on-demand film, TV and music programming, as well as interactive services. Release ALSO: Frost & Sullivan says BT will have to work hard to make its newly announced broadband TV service BT Vision a success. Although IPTV is likely to establish itself as a valid alternative to cable and satellite TV over time, despite the high expectations, IPTV may not be an immediate success throughout Europe. Article 5. Pioneer trialing Ruckus Wireless' 'smart Wi-Fi' Pioneer Telephone Cooperative is trialing Ruckus Wireless' in-home "smart Wi-Fi" system to enable and distribute broadband digital services, such as IPTV, to any corner of the home using 802.11g WiFi. Pioneer launched its commercial IPTV service using ADSL2+ in June 2004 and has more than 20,000 broadband subscribers throughout 76 cities and towns. Pioneer is planning a phased roll out of the Ruckus WiFi system as part of its popular broadband services throughout this year. It is estimated that by using Ruckus System, Pioneer can reduce the time required for installing Cat5 cables from 3 hours to 45 minutes and cut in half the amount of labor and truck rolls needed. Ruckus is privately held and has raised about $14 million in two rounds of venture financing from Sequoia Capital, Sutter Hill Ventures and others. For more information on this trial: ALSO NOTED TODAY'S SPOTLIGHT... Motorola in
talks with Reliance for IPTV STBs > Triple-play makes consumers think twice before subscribing to a bundled package. Blog > Minerva and Nortel will jointly develop and release an open application interface (API) to enable the integration of real-time IPTV services using Minerva's iTVManager software and Nortel's IMS infrastructure. Release > The government asks the BBC to win audiences with high quality, innovative programs. Article > EchoStar is pursuing a new strategy that envisions investing more than $1.6 billion to dramatically increase its satellite fleet over the next few years, with plans to potentially lease some of the extra capacity to other companies. Article (Wall Street Journal sub. req.) > mPhase launches an IPTV in a Box starter kit targeted at small operators to launch video services for up to 1,000 customers, or by large operators to set up a single or multiple central office IPTV pilot. Release > Cambridge, MA-based Brightcove, an open Internet TV service, has acquired Seattle-based MetaStories, a provider of rich media publishing solutions. Release > Sigma Designs adopts ANT's Galio Browser and IPTV Client software for integration with its media processors to ensure faster time-to-market and cost savings for IPTV operators using a consistent client approach. Release > Yankee Group says there's not enough math in the TV business, but aQuantive, Atlas on Demand and others are figuring out how to give advertisers better feedback on who's watching. Article > PacketFront claims that its BECS system lowers Monterrey, Mexico-based Interfibra's OPEX and CAPEX, and helps deliver triple-play services for low income residents for as low as $25 per month. Release > Intel's Viiv technology helps system integrators tie multimedia components together to make a PC act like a DVR. Blog And Finally... AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre defends the proposed merger with BellSouth and promises not to block anyone's access to the public Internet or degrade anyone's quality of service. Clip 16/03/06 1. House panel OKs national cable franchise to phone cos In a setback for cable, House lawmakers last week agreed to award a national cable franchise--a bouquet--to phone companies and to subject cable operators to continued local franchising requirements--bricks and bats. The provisions, though not publicly debated at this point, are to withhold regulatory relief from cable until the phone company has secured 15 percent of the local video market, and to protect phone companies from predatory pricing tactics by cable incumbents. Under current law, cablecos are price-deregulated on the basic tier when pay TV competitors serve more than 15 percent of local households and are required to offer a uniform rate structure in a local market. The agreement was reached by House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Joe Barton (R-TX), Telecommunications and the Internet Subcommittee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Reps. Chip Pickering (R-MS), John Dingell (D-MI) and Edward Markey (D-MA). Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-AK) is expected to unveil a bill soon to include cable-franchising relief for the large phone companies. AT&T and Verizon have been urging Congress to adopt a national-franchise policy. The House agreement came three days after AT&T announced its $67 billion takeover of BellSouth, a deal that some predicted would hurt AT&T's and Verizon's chances of obtaining a favorable cable-franchising law from Congress. For more on the panel's move: 2. Cable operators refuse Verizon TV commercial Having received unanimous approval for system-wide franchise process in New Jersey, Verizon NJ is now publicly complaining that Comcast and Time Warner are unwilling to accept its paid 30-second TV commercial titled "CPI," while Cablevision did not respond to its emails seeking placement. The ad states that since 2001 cable prices have increased four times as much as the CPI (Consumer Price Index); while prices in some industries have actually gone down, cable rates have risen 86 percent since 1995. Verizon claims that the cable operators are restricting the choice for consumers and slowing competition in New Jersey. Recently, the carrier also conducted a poll and found that 77 percent of New Jersey respondents support updating the franchising law and want choice. Verizon has pointed out that when it brings FiOS TV to market, cable operators slash rates at an average of 15 percent or more. Verizon is now considering running the spot on broadcast TV stations in New York and Philadelphia. The operator serves 526 communities and has announced FTTP networks in 123 communities in New Jersey, its home base. It seems that the carrier will aggressively take the TV home in its important market and leave no stone unturned to stake its claim to consumers. For more on the ad dispute: PLUS: Councils in Bellefonte, Delaware City and Odessa in New Castle County, DE, with 3,000 potential new customers, unanimously voted to grant Verizon FiOS TV franchises. Release ALSO: Verizon unveils FiOS TV in Maryland to about 11,000 Howard County residents and expands availability in New York. Release (MD) | Release (NY) 3. Indiana passes statewide video franchise law Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels signed a franchising-reform bill that enables new competitors to get statewide operating authority within 30 days of application. With this law, franchising is now passed from city officials' hands to the Utility Regulatory Commission. The bill differs from those in other states in that it will allow incumbent operators to decide, after July 1, whether they want to opt out of local agreements and seek state licensing. All providers will have to pay 5 percent franchise fees. Incumbents, whether or not they are state-licensed, will have to continue institutional-network support until the end of their franchises or 2008, whichever term is longer. Indiana has joined Texas as the only other state in the U.S. to allow statewide video franchising. Virginia last week passed a law that expedites the video franchise application process but still leaves the ultimate decision to local municipalities. For more on Indiana's new law: 4. Metric: 18% of U.S. may switch to IPTV A survey of 15,000 U.S. early adopters conducted by In-Stat and funded by Siemens found that 18 percent of America's early adopter respondents, who now subscribe to cable or satellite TV, will "probably" or "definitely" consider IPTV as a viable option. With 10 percent savings offered on IPTV, an additional 34 percent of the remaining respondents would "probably" or "definitely" switch. According to the survey, the most popular services are:
Respondents were ready to shell out an additional $7.50 or less each month for each service. However, they would like some services at no extra fees--caller ID on TV (69 percent), interactive information (63 percent), call logging (58 percent) and remote programming (57 percent). In-Stat principal analyst Michelle Abraham points out that interest in IPTV will grow with understanding of the service. Portable entertainment applications may attract more attention as fixed and mobile networks become more integrated. Siemens says that IPTV subscribers need assurance that telcos and other broadband operators can deliver services like pay-per-view and VoD that they expect. Then they'll be more open for IPTV. Last week, Accenture found that 46 percent of U.S. and European consumers do not understand IPTV. For more on the survey: 5. Opportunities, strategies for European IPTV operators Analysys says that European telcos must develop IPTV strategies tailored to local markets if they want IPTV to be a revenue earner rather than simply a product differentiator. In the disparate and complex European market of broadcasting and telecom that is different from the U.S., Analysys' Dr. Windsor Holden suggests that markets with high broadband and low pay-TV penetration offer the greatest scope for early IPTV adoption. In saturated pay-TV markets, operators should focus on exploiting IPTV's unique selling points. Holden also recommends that in an environment in which both basic and premium multi-channel TV platforms are well established, partnership with an existing TV platform operator makes more sense. For more on Europe's IPTV potential: PLUS: Telecommunications Magazine Online's survey of IPTV service provider expectations found that 50 percent of respondents in North America and 45 percent internationally were concerned about how to make a realistic and profitable business case for deployment. With IMS as the supporting architecture, 28 percent of North American telcos gave IPTV a top priority while, outside North America, 20 percent ranked IPTV deployments a top priority. While operators indicated service availability as the top key to success in providing IP video, providers based outside the U.S. ranked understanding customers video consumption habits/interests higher (48 percent) than North American operators (24 percent) did. Article (reg. req.) ALSO NOTED TODAY'S SPOTLIGHT...
> VeriSign will acquire privately held, Mountain View, CA-based Kontiki for about $62 million to complement its Mobile Content Services and expand its Content Services portfolio. Release | Article > AT&T, BellSouth, Verizon and CEA pledge interoperability of their various set-top boxes (STBs) or other IPTV interface devices. Article > Ovum finds that the intersection of content providers/studios and telcos is an opportunity to a new market where VoD becomes TV. Article > After trialling, Telecom Italia has commercially launched Microsoft's IPTV Edition software for its "Alice Home TV." The operator has also selected Verimatrix's Content Authority System (VCAS) for its AliceBox triple play service. Release (Microsoft) | Release (Verimatrix) > PacketFront and Siemens provide open access triple play solutions to upgrade SEAS-NVE's, Denmark's utility company's broadband network. Release > Madrid-based SIDSA (Semiconductores Investigación y Diseño) is launching Ether TV, an IP gateway for digital TV, to enter the IPTV market. Release (.pdf) > Japanese Tranzas has licensed SecureMedia's Encryptonite System CA/DRM software to provide end-to-end IPTV content security. Release > Georgia-based Ringgold Telephone has selected Latens FCAS Conditional Access to encrypt Pay-TV and VoD content. Release (.pdf) > AOL and Warner Brothers launch In2TV on AOL.com. Release > Tut Systems is upgrading IPTV headends from MPEG-2 AVC to MPEG-4 AVC for Allendale Communications, Consolidated Communications, MBO, and Iowa Network Services. Release > Italian FASTWEB has deployed SkyStream Networks' Mediaplex-20 headend system. Release And Finally... New restrictions would ensure there were at least five commercial media groups in major cities and four in regional centers in Australia. Article 09/03/06 1. AT&T to acquire BellSouth, execs discuss IPTV Soon after closing the SBC-AT&T merger, AT&T is now acquiring BellSouth for $67 billion. Their joint ownership of Cingular (60 percent AT&T, 40 percent BellSouth) has been cited as an enabler for a long time now. However, in the face of the increasing threat posed by cablecos and Internet companies, the trio concluded that by converging on a single IP platform (IMS) and providing IPTV services, they could experience some savings. AT&T and BellSouth executives gave some insight on how BellSouth's IPTV plans would be integrated in Project LightSpeed in response to analyst questions.
Though BellSouth's 12 Mbps to 14 Mbps is not enough to support the IPTV requirements of 20 Mbps to 25 Mbps, it should help AT&T kickstart the service before they start delivering bandwidth intensive applications. For more on this: 2. Verizon hits hurdles over fiber network In spite of investing a large part of its resources and attention, Verizon's fiber roll out is facing some hurdles--the operator landed only 44 approvals (only about half the target) last year to offer TV service, is facing challenges digging up lawns and has already spent millions of dollars on lawyers to woo local officials. The recent AT&T-BellSouth acquisition is bound to add new pressure. AT&T is rolling out triple play services using the cheaper FTTN method, spending roughly $5 billion through 2008 to reach 18 million homes with its fiber project, while Verizon's program eventually could cost as much as $20 billion. The operator has scaled back its FTTH plans and will use coaxial cable for the last few feet into customers' homes. This saves more than an hour on the usual six-hour installation and money. Verizon vice chairman Larry Babbio expects the cost of connecting individual homes with fiber to fall to $890 a home from the $1,400 a home it spent in January 2005. So far, Verizon has brought fiber to more than 3 million homes and expects to add another 3 million by the end of this year. It has permission from local authorities to offer television service to 1.3 million people. However, only a fraction of those homes subscribe to the service. The operator did not give raises to many top executives last year, has frozen pensions for managers and is offering lower bonuses. The company says the cuts aren't connected to its fiber plans. I wonder if the recent AT&T-BellSouth merger triggers Verizon to do some additional mergers (after MCI) to increase its footprint and be in the competition. For more on this: PLUS: Following video franchising grants, Verizon makes FiOS TV available to 80,000 customers in Murrieta, CA, and 33,000 customers in Hillsborough, FL. Release (CA) | Release (FL) ALSO: Verizon plans to aggressively market its FiOS service to MDUs this year. Release 3. Survey: 46% do not understand 'IPTV' Accenture's survey of 6,030 consumers across six countries (the U.S., the U.K., France, Germany, Spain and Italy), excluding the more developed Asian region, found that 46 percent do not understand the term IPTV. However, the survey reveals some healthy demand for IPTV services.
The study provides some implications for IPTV service providers. Content will be the killer app and careful marketing and user education is required to attract customers on a wide scale. It would be more interesting to know specifically what cable TV, satellite TV and standard TV subscribers want. For more info on this: PLUS: Eight things you need to know about IPTV. Blog 4. Thoughts from IPTV World Forum IPTV senior level executives shared some thoughts on the telco-content provider relationship at the IPTV World Forum. According to T-Online SVP of Content & Portal Division Peter Kerckhoff, telcos are best positioned to tackle the studios major issues--security and footprint. He urged studios to collaborate with key local players rather than go it alone and initiating huge local market deployments. Tiscali UK Portal Director Richard Ayers voiced a similar opinion, saying that content providers should see ISPs as partners rather than parasites. Meanwhile, Disney spokesman Darren Cochrane wants to wait to see how operators develop and then come in if the economics work, suggesting that library titles can be used as part of the initial discussions. Sony SVP of European distribution Stuart Baxter did not find a percentage of low ARPU incentive enough to align for a long-term relationship. Andy Birchall of ondemand! pointed out that while Sony has margins of around 10 percent, adult content can easily command an 80 percent margin. Entone's spokesperson argued ARPU from U.S. homes is less than $10 a month and personalized TV based on additional ARPU cannot be justified. Ovum Consulting Director Tom McKeever has a word of caution for the telcos: "video revenues are not going to save your share price, the web is a serious threat." He contends that making content themselves would be a mistake. Instead, they should partner with content providers to offer some differentiation. For more on the forum: 5. Chutes & Ladders: ICTV nabs ex-MicrosoftTV director as CTO Don Gordon joins Silicon Valley-based ICTV as its CTO and Senior VP of Engineering. ICTV creates HeadendWare, a delivery and distribution platform of interactive TV programming. Most recently Gordon was director of software architectures for Microsoft TV and played a part in the selection of Microsoft TV as the software platform for Verizon's FIOS TV service. Gordon has 26 patents to his name dealing with MPEG video and network-based interactive services. For more on this: PLUS: Envivio appointed Alain Fernando-Santana as its chief marketing officer as it expands its solutions for IPTV, mobile, enterprise and broadcast service providers. Prior to joining Envivio, Fernando-Santana was the CEO of Netcentrex in the Americas region. Release ALSO: Ali Taslimi joined Coaxsys as VP of corporate development IPTV and multimedia networking. Taslimi has been with AT&T Bell Labs, Lucent, Alcatel and Occam Networks. Release ALSO NOTED TODAY'S SPOTLIGHT... Amino to
integrate Firefox into IPTV STBs > In addition to VoD and billing capabilities, Digital TX Managing Director Alexander Cameron suggests IPTV strategies for 25 U.K. companies including Vodafone and Channel 4. Article > TI's AR7 ADSL2+ technology will be integrated with Corinex's ADSL2+ AV200 Powerline residential gateway to distribute up to nine simultaneous streams of video, including High Definition. Release > Reliance Communication Ventures and Microsoft will roll out commercial IPTV in India by year's end. Article > A new ad points out cable TV's 86 percent price hike over the past 10 years and urges Americans to call on Congress to declare an era of "TV Freedom" by bringing competition and choice. Release | "Through the Roof" Ad > Midwest TelNet selects Latens FCAS Conditional Access solution to secure its IPTV services. FCAS will integrate with Amino's set-top boxes (STBs) and with Minerva's iTV Manager. Release (.pdf) > Affordable Telecommunications Technology (Buzz Technologies) acquired a Geneva-based STB manufacturer. Release > eWAN1 Global IPTV service will be launched in 36 languages including Urdu to help U.S. efforts in providing alternate programming in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Release > WEGENER integrates Verimatrix's user-specific forensic watermarking technology, VideoMark, into its IPTV STBs to track piracy. Release > UIEvolution partners with OnDemand TV to deliver high-definition VOD-IPTV service with surround sound to 60 million customers at Japanese NTT-East and NTT-West this spring. Release > Lucent is upgrading Cavalier Telephone's DMX platforms to converged LNW70 Ethernet cards to enable its new IPTV service offering in Virginia. Release > Irish Magnet Networks deploys Zignal IPTV service delivery platform. Release > KPN cleared to acquire Nozema. Article And Finally... Verizon laptop theft may leave workers vulnerable to ID fraud Article (Wall Street Journal sub. req.) 02/03/06 1. IPTV M&As to create closed networks: Cisco, Motorola buy in Making note of the continuing series of acquisitions in the IP video market, ABI Research warns the industry that the business model of end-to-end IPTV offerings may create closed networks. This model is based on the operators' assumed preference for single-vendor approach. Meanwhile, the adoption of standards such as Advanced TCA, OpenCable and MOCA indicates that all players are aware of the benefits of standardization, putting the onus on standards bodies to ensure convergence of vendor technologies into standard platforms. ABI also points out that the resulting smaller number of vendors will not only deploy their video solutions in the telco networks but also deliver home networks and CPEs for the tech-unsavvy customers. The firm anticipates Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Nortel and Lucent will acquire or partner with IPTV specialists and finds Orca Interactive, Kasenna, Bitband, Optibase, 2Wire and Entone as attractive targets for acquisition. For more on this: PLUS: Cisco completed its $6.9 billion acquisition of Scientific-Atlanta, a provider of set-top boxes, end-to-end video distribution networks and video systems integration. Cisco will now be offering an IP NGN architecture with a variety of integrated media services capabilities in addition to the current digital video/IPTV functionality.The Scientific-Atlanta team, led by CEO Jim McDonald, has become part of the Routing and Service Provider Technology Group under Cisco Senior VP Mike Volpi. Release | Article ALSO: Motorola has completed its acquisition of the Swedish IPTV set-top box developer Kreatel Communications. Motorola claims that Kreatel's Linux-based solution that can be used with middleware solutions and will complement its end-to-end digital video solutions. Kreatel's team will be integrated into the Motorola Connected Home Solutions business and will continue to operate from Linköping, Sweden. Release 2. Middleware, security vendors' views on IPTV Israel-based Infogate, a developer of middleware solutions for IPTV content, and Irdeto, a developer of security software for protection of video content against piracy and theft, teamed up to provide IPTV services and plan to offer their joint solution to an integrator such as Nortel or Unisys. Irdeto VP of Sales Parvaiz Ahsan and Infogate Product Manager Asaf Inbar give their views of the IPTV market:
For more on this: 3. Verizon FiOS TV available in Mass. Soon after taking orders in Woburn, MA, two weeks ago, Verizon introduced FiOS TV in Reading, MA, a community of 23,000. Verizon obtained a local video franchise in Reading in January and is currently in negotiations with more than 30 other communities in Massachusetts to obtain additional franchises. The Verizon FTTP network is currently under construction in more than 40 Massachusetts communities. Verizon launched the service in Keller, TX, last September and has begun offering the service in parts of California, Florida, Virginia and on Long Island, NY. For more on this: PLUS: Verizon CFO Doreen Toben claims the company "continues to see a strong and growing customer response" to fiber-optic-based FiOS data and video product offerings with "well on plan" customer take-rates for FiOS services. The deployment costs are declining. Release ALSO: Using Verizon's VOD, which is IPTV, subscribers can avail more than 80 hours a month of free on-demand titles from Disney Channel, Toon Disney, Radio Disney, Jetix, ABC News, ABC Family, SOAPnet, ESPN, ESPN Deportes and ESPNU. Verizon is also offering on demand new-release movies from Buena Vista Pay Television for $3.95 each. Release FINALLY: The Virginia General Assembly has agreed on a compromise video regulation measure that speeds the entry of telephone companies into video service but requires greater investment on their part. Article 4. Germany's competitive IPTV landscape Duetsche Telekom (DT) subsidiary T-Online Vision bought non-exclusive xDSL forwarding rights for five stations' programs in ProSiebenSat.1 Media after Telefonica purchased IPTV rights from ARD, ZDF, RTL Group and ProSiebenSat.1 Media at the beginning of February. In addition, ProSiebenSat.1 will also provide T-Online Vision with 200 hours of programs for its VoD service. For more on this: ALSO: DT intends to restrict its anticipated three years' IPTV transmissions rights of Germany's soccer league matches to its new VDSL network so that its VDSL network can be exempted from regulatory obligations that require access to it by competitors. Article 5. Kingston pulls plug on IPTV Hull, U.K.-based Kingston Communications will pull the plug on Kingston Interactive TV (KIT) on April 3 because not enough people watch it. Without the benefits of scale and increased competition, the telco does not find further investment in KIT to be cost-effective. Existing customers have been notified of the closing. HomeChoice is now the only operator providing a digital and on-demand TV service over a broadband connection in the U.K. The service was launched in October 1999, and at one point KIT boasted 10,000 subscribers. The carrier is said to be negotiating with satellite TV provider Sky to take over its dwindling installed based of some 4,000 subscribers. Kingston has spent $17 million to $20 million on KIT over the years, earning no profit. Meanwhile, BT is gearing up aggressively for its nationwide IPTV launch later this year. Cartoon Network has become the latest content provider to sign on to the service. For more on this: PLUS: To face the increased competition, the U.K.'s largest satellite broadcaster, British Sky Broadcasting Group (BSkyB), signed a deal with Walt Disney to offer additional Disney content with premium Cinemagic. The content deals indicate "content is the king." Article ALSO NOTED TODAY'S SPOTLIGHT... Reach consumers
with addressable IPTV ads > Among other growth strategies, Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski wants to invest in IPTV, IMS and WiMAX. Webcast | Article > Siemens Home and Office Communication Devices (Siemens SHC) is now licensing Galio Client from ANT, a provider of middleware software, to deliver TV services across a range of Siemens SHC devices worldwide. But Siemens already owns a middleware vendor, Myrio. Release > Swedish utility company Varberg Energi selected European Latens, a supplier of software based conditional access IPTV and Pay-TV, to provide Foundation CAS content and revenue protection for its IPTV services. Release (.pdf) > Infonetics reports that competitive pressures, rising broadband traffic and IPTV opportunities attributed to the growth of long haul WDM equipment, which was up 32 percent in 2005 from 2004. Release > IPTV set-top box (STB) supplier Amino partnered with Trimedia Broadcast to provide an end-to-end system for corporate IPTV to install an internal communications system sans incompatibilities. Using the AmiNET family of IPTV STBs, Trimedia has already secured a number of deployments, including a bespoke in-house IPTV service for Discovery Networks Europe. Release > Kasenna draws on reseller and integrator Thunderworx's existing relationship with Cypriot teleco Primetel to deploy its IPTV solution. Primetel will provide an IPTV-based VOD service for home subscribers in 2006. Release > TANDBERG Television works with Siemens to provide MPEG-4 AVC video compression for Shanghai Telecom's IPTV. Tandberg also revealed that it provided MPEG-2 video compression to NBC to cover the 2006 Winter Olympics from Torino, Italy. Release > Brasil Telecom will launch Internet TV services in the third quarter of 2006 providing VOD and electronic gaming. The telco has received proposals from six providers wishing to partner with it in delivering IPTV. Abstract > EGT has completed a third round of funding of $8.5 million from Noro-Moseley Partners, H.I.G. Capital, Sevin Rosen Funds and others to speed new product delivery for IPTV. Release > With Multidimensional Ethernet and a new BlackDiamond 12K switch, Extreme Networks helps carriers deliver IPTV and VoIP, with improvements in QoS and subscriber scaling. The switch has been deployed at TelstraClear. Release > Telstra completed Winter Olympic program delivery for Seven Network over a Scientific-Atlanta system, connecting Torino, Italy, with Melbourne. Release > Austria-based Telesystem Tirol has deployed BigBand's BMR (Broadband Multimedia-service Router) for headend-based processing and control of its digital TV offerings for handling the processing, management and delivery of digital video. With this installation, BigBand Networks' customers in Europe have increased. Release > Soon-to-launch Aussie IPTV service provider Reeltime expects to raise $4 million through the issue of 20 million, 20 cent shares. Article > The Chinese government's three IPTV principles intend to neither have Chinese IPTV standards submit to a foreign one, nor to have it monopolized by a single party within the domestic market. Article > Soon after rolling its solution at Belgacom, SupportSoft is now supporting BellSouth. Release > Digital TX Managing Director Alexander Cameron enlists good looking and feeling STBs designed for ladies as important for consumer electronics and technical entertainment services. Check out his complete list. Article And Finally... According to General Manager Dean Harris, "WealthTV's broad appeal and ability to allow viewers to live the American dream now by simply watching their TV, will deliver what Guadalupe subscribers are seeking and dreaming of." Release 01/03/06 Better service delivery infrastructure =
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Alcatel
announces two IPTV customers: Telenor, DT