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[sportslinespy] Reportlinker Adds 2007 IPTV / Mobile Video Research Report « in ...: The colossal carriers, essentially Verizon and AT&T (formerly SBC until the acquirement of AT&T announced in January 2005) beget dominated the tidings thither IPTV in North America.

[IPTV News] Deploying IPTV: Verizon expects to pass three million subscribers with 5 to 30 Mbps fiber to the home by the end of this year. By late 2007, SBC plans to pass 18 million subscribers with its 5 to 20 Mbps fiber to the neighborhood network.

[~Tech Angel~] ~Tech Angel~: Problems with IPTV: If that'snot enough, companies are encountering legal roadblocks as well. SBCand Verizon want legislation passed that will allow them to signstatewide franchise agreements instead of having to reach agreementswith hundreds of municipalities which is a process that could takeyears. 

[IPTV News] IPTV Set Revenue: Infonetics' report analyzes the fundamental drivers, growth areas, and technologies gaining the most traction in the market, tracking IPTV service infrastructure capex, IPTV service revenue, and IPTV subscribers. The report includes worldwide and regional market size, analysis, and revenue, capex, and subscriber forecasts through 2009 for North America, EMEA, Asia Pacific, CALA, and worldwide.

[The 463: Inside Tech Policy] The 463: Inside Tech Policy: IPTV Legislative Fight Previewed: While telecom giants SBC and Verizon are already beginning to roll out IPTV services, they're also asking Congress to streamline the rules that forced cable TV carriers to negotiate franchise agreements with every local government where they provided service. The large telecom carriers faced heavy regulation in the traditional telephone market when they were the only providers, they argue, but when Congress opened up voice calls to competition in the 1996 Telecommunications Act, competing carriers had fewer regulations.

[IPTV News] IPTV Market Reports: Based on information from over 270 IPTV carriers worldwide, the report identifies the top carriers in each of four regions (Asia, Europe, North America, and ROW), broken down by seven product/service segments for 2005 to 2009 (Set-top Boxes, Video Headends, VOD Servers, Middleware, Access Equipment, Content Protection and System Integration). "No other report offers 28 discreet IPTV sector analyses plus capital spending profiles of each region's top carriers"

[Digital Society] Digital Society » Blog Archive » FCC NPRM ban on Paid Peering ...: While many Net Neutrality proponents may be well intentioned and they want to spur the next new innovators, it’s becoming clear that the unintended consequences of Net Neutrality regulation would produce the opposite effect.  It appears that the NPRM regulations operate under the misguided vision of how the Internet works as illustrated in diagram 2 of the FCC NPRM, and it may be assuming that these ISP charges to content providers are levied

[Matthew Midura's Blog] Matthew Midura's Blog » Blog Archive » IPTV - Technology Brief: Microsoft has already signed on a number of telecommunications companies for its IPTV software, including Alcatel, SBC Communications, BellSouth and Telecom Italia (LaMonica, 2005). The local telecommunications companies are spending billions of dollars upgrading their networks to faster fiber lines.

[Comments for Nyquist Capital] NTT Video FTTH | Nyquist Capital: Verizon has stated that they will, sometime in the future when they feel IPTV is truly ready for deployment, drop their RF overlay and deliver their broadcast video in an all IP format, similar to AT&T. Although they will surely have a great number of deployed triplexers and ONT’s in the field by that time, will delivering broadcast video along with VOD and voice over the data wavelength completely eliminate the need for the RF overlay/1550nm wavelength and thus future triplexers?

[Joystiq] Hands-on with IPTV on Xbox 360: And for all the international readers, here is a list that I found online of about a dozen IPTV partners with Microsoft: AT&T/SBC, BT, Deutsche Telekom, Swisscom, T-Online France, TDC, Telecom Italia, Verizon, Ya.com, Bell South, Bell Canada, Reliance Infocomm and Telkom South Africa

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