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[PE Hub News: Buyout Deals] Providence, MBK on PCCW Shortlist: HKT will consist of three PCCW businesses: information technology, telecommunications, and media. In addition to the roughly $2.5 billion it hopes to get from outside investors, HKT will borrow around $3 billion from banks to finance the purchase of the businesses from PCCW.

[tech-talk.biz] Internet TV or IPTV? Who will win the battle?: IPTV brings today QoS and exclusive content to the mainstream. Internet TV brings the nearly infinite choice and movie downloads (only in US) to a younger segment.

[The technological era] Analysis: IPTV experience from overseas operations: IPTV services, France Telecom IPTV mainly provide real-time TV and VOD service, ADSL users to access the cooperation of France Telecom Partners TPS, Canal +, CANALSAT of digital TV and digital terrestrial television channels, all of IPTV subscribers only contract with France Telecom, and other content providers do not have to deal with, and other content providers only France Telecom's partners, not directly Faced with the user.

 [Octaviabbt's Weblog] IPTV and the Future of TV Advertising: In fact IPTV offers a new, more compelling model for advertisers to reach and influence consumers. As Tony Hart explained during his presentation, IPTV offers an opportunity to move from a “linear ad insertion model” (which brings with it many disadvantages, such as ads shown during live TV according to a precise schedule, low effectiveness in which advertisers need to pay for large audience even if they just reach small targets and weak measurement) to an “addressable advertising model” that offers the following advantages:

[IPTV News at IPTV Watch] PCCW to launch high-definition IPTV: The first high-definition content to be broadcast by PCCW’s “now TV” IPTV service will include live sporting events such as Premier League soccer and lifestyle programmes from VOOM.

 [IPTV News] IPTV Programming: Adding to its already strong presence in the North American and European IPTV markets, this selection clearly confirms Entone’s global leadership position in IPTV. According to a recent IPTV Market Leader Report from Multimedia Research Group: “Entone jumped out as a strong participant in the Video On Demand server market at the end of 2004 with several wins in Europe and North America.

 [Wellington Financial Blog - News, Views & Purviews] Genuity on IPTV: IPTV in Europe and Asia are forecast to grow more rapidly than North America due to competitive dynamics and the role of HDTV in North America (increasingly the “crack cocaine” of TV viewing in North America). Europe is expected to comprise some 40% of telco TV subs and almost 50% of the industry revenue by 2010, according to MRG.

[Service Assurance Blog] IPTV Services Up 13% Worldwide: “The fact that China has finally awarded licences for IPTV means that it will grow quickly and probably come to dominate the market at 7 Million IPTV subscribers within two years,” says James Heath, research director at Dittberner. “Japan is likely to have good growth and may challenge China for a while, but North America, with its entrenched TV operators, will be a slow roll.” IPTV is on the way to becoming an accepted strategy for most service providers.

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