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[TVover.net] SBC Communications Selects Motorola and Scientific-Atlanta as Set ...: "Motorola's IP set-top platform, built on our decades of experience as the global leader in digital set-top technologies, will establish SBC U-verse TV as an industry-leading IP video service," said Dan Moloney, president, Motorola Connected Home Solutions. "Our vision of seamless mobility begins with bringing high-quality, IP video into the connected home, and our role in the launch of SBC's entertainment service represents yet another step forward in making that vision a reality."

[IPTV News] IPTV Support: Under the contract, Amdocs will provide the SBC companies with services supporting customer service, based on Amdocs' billing, customer relationship management, ordering and payment products. Amdocs also will provide consulting and systems integration services.

[Susan Crawford blog] Susan Crawford blog :: Two thoughts: "The Project Lightspeed network will integrate IP-video with voice, data and other applications (all ultimately to be IP-based) in a manner that is not possible over existing broadband or cable networks. Because the various applications will amount to data packets traveling over the same broadband pipe, the services will interoperate and communicate in a way that makes each service more useful than it would be standing alone." 

[MaldivianDigital® :: Forum] AT&T Reups With Alcatel-Lucent For U-Verse: Robert Vrij, president of Alcatel-Lucent's Americas business, said in a statement. "As AT&T U-verse expands even further across the country, we are looking forward to continuing to provide AT&T with our multivendor, end-to-end network integration capabilities."

[Comments for Nyquist Capital] AT&T Lightspeed Gets More Expensive | Nyquist Capital: AT&T (T ) announced that capex for the U-Verse IPTV & Fiber to the Node initiative (known as Project Lightspeed) would increase from $4.6B to $6.5B. They also announced the scope of the project was being reduced from 19M to 18M homes.

[TVover.net] IP-Based TV Will Revolutionize Entertainment - TVover.net: Through Project Lightspeed, SBC companies plan to deliver IP-based video, voice, and high-speed Internet access services, providing a communications and entertainment experience not previously realized in the mass market. The company plans to offer the first set of products under the U-verse SM brand in late 2005 or early 2006.

[ContentDeveloper.com] An open letter to SBC Chairman and CEO Ed Whitacre.: Under our understanding of the current SBC "revolution", the cable TV consumer will still be forced to buy a package of channels, the majority of which we seldom watch or want. The "revolution" you describe is in how those channels are delivered, along with some new features like the ability to select camera angles during sporting events and watch multiple pictures in picture.

[Susan Crawford blog] Susan Crawford blog :: The day the internet became cable ...: As AT&T says, "the new U-verse enabled AT&T Yahoo!(R) High Speed internet builds on AT&T's position as the nation's leading provider of broadband DSL."  It's not the same as the "wireline broadband Internet access service" that AT&T is willing to keep neutral.

[Joystiq] Hands-on with IPTV on Xbox 360: As for quality of service, I have been using cable forever (who hasn't) and IPTV completely blows it out of the water. First off, when I was talking to the tech that came out to our house to run the fiber from the street and rewire our whole place up, I was asking him about any number of stuff like outages and stuff (wanna make sure I was getting my monies worth).

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