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[Strategy Analytics] Strategy Analytics » Blog Archive » IPTV Operators Offer To ...: The general impression from IPTV World Forum debates is that the BSP response will be to “embrace” OTT content, encouraging providers to join their managed services and packages so that customers are guaranteed quality of experience for their Youtube videos. Before accepting these overtures, OTT providers themselves should consider whether this embrace will resemble a loving couple gazing at the sunset, or a grizzly bear hugging its newly captured prey.

[Total Telecom RSS Feed] Total Telecom - Content regulation: Power plays: FIRST MOVES TO regulate exclusive pay-TV content delivered over broadband networks underscore IPTV’s role in securing broadband share in some European markets. But so far regulators have been reluctant to mandate wholesale access to content given high levels of private investment, and that is forcing service providers to consider a

[Market Mettle] Vodafonewatch, issue 2009.01 snapshot: The minimum remaining commitments Vodafone has made through the deal amount to $5.3m for licences and $2.4m for support in fiscal 2009 ($7.7m in total, for the fiscal year ending 30 September 2009), and $1.6m for support in fiscal 2010 (ending 30 September 2010), using the dollar-euro exchange rate from 31 December 2008. However, Chordiant said Vodafone would end up paying more if it chooses to renew the support element of the agreement.

[InteractiveTV Today [itvt]] Issue 7.77 Part 2a | April 28, 2008 Subscribe: go to www.itvt.com ...: The solution is based on the latest version of Ocean Blue's Voyager MHEG-5 software, which it says will be available in early summer and will comply with new HD specifications that were finalized last month by the Digital Television Group, the industry association for DTV in the UK (note: Ocean Blue claims to have been involved in numerous DTG working groups tasked with defining standards): the HD MHEG-5 profile introduces the use of JPEG bitmaps, AAC audio (streams and clips), and improved color map definitions in order to enhance the visual and audio experience. Ocean Blue says that additional changes to graphics have been made, in order to ensure that any upscaling of standard-definition MHEG applications to HD generates a high-quality image on HD graphics plains.

[dailywireless.org] Can Telcos Live Without IPTV?: The LIVE Netflix service on Microsoft’s Xbox leverages broadband-enabled game consoles bypassing cable and satellite TV operators by providing a more immersive, interactive video experience. Samsung has announced that its BD-P2500 and .

[HKSAR Government Press Releases] Speech by SCED at 39th International Institute of Communications ...: In Hong Kong, major telecom operators already offer triple-play and even quadruple-play services: integrating fixed-line, IPTV, broadband internet, and mobile services into one package. One of our service providers already offers a triple-play service on its fully IP-based NGN platform while another incumbent operator has announced plans to complete the transformation of its network to NGN by 2016.

[AME Info | Etisalat] Etisalat announces 500000 residential broadband subscribers | Etisalat: Etisalat has also recently announced the availability of fixed-line broadband services of 8 Megabits per Second (Mbps) and 16 Mbps for customers who are connected to its next-generation fibre network (FTTH). Etisalat aims to connect the entire city of Abu Dhabi to fibre by mid of 2009, making it one of the first cities in the world to be fully connected by FTTH and the first city and capital in the Middle East to have full FTTH connectivity.

[Robert Paterson's Weblog] Robert Paterson's Weblog: The death of Aliant?: Ironically, this means that BT, once regarded as a dinosaur-like incumbent, is now being held up as a shining example of an operator that is embracing the future, while Vodafone, whose pure-mobile strategy once seemed visionary, now stands accused of being on the wrong side of history.

[Hammer Stock Blog] Hammer Stock Blog » Blog Archive » Ikanos Communications - How Big ...: . Last year, the incumbent announced its intentions to deploy FTTH, similarly to its competitors Iliad and Neuf. The loop lengths in France are longer relatively to Germany, which makes FTTN/C less attractive. Ikanos has been working with Sagem on residential gateways that can support both ADSL and FTTH, and expects substantial orders from FT for its gateway product, even though it won’t involve VDSL.

[blog maverick] The Great Internet Video Lie « blog maverick: Take out the streaming video from your broadband bill, and I bet you barely notice the difference in the speed of your basic browsing. Apply the savings to your cable bill, and you get far more content, a DVR to watch what and when you want.

[InteractiveTV Today [itvt]] [itvt] Presents...The TV of Tomorrow Show 2009: So before many of us took the holiday break, we were able to make an announcement for OEDN.net, the Web site for developers in the interactive TV space, that we had been working with companies like TVWorks, BIAP, Zodiac Interactive and Digeo to get their EBIF User Agent specs coalesced into one place and published on the OEDN site--the thrust therein being that, "Hey, wouldn't it be great to have a one-stop place to go for a developer who's considering developing interactive TV in either the cable or the telco space--to go to, to see the nuances between how this spec is interpreted?" The spec being a CableLabs EBIF spec, each company has a little different twist on it with their particular user agent.

[Comments for Mahmood's Den] Mahmood’s Den : Batelco is feeling the heat!: The customers in Bahrain vary from the average browser, to the on line dealer, to those who use the INTERNET for a living, and all these people have deferent needs and wants, some want the cheapest and don’t care about the quality, and those who want the latest and greatest like you, me and many other like Mohamed Isa who is a regular on this Blog, so why is it a bad idea to deploy fiber optics, as a matter of fact, If I was Batelco i would have started deploying Fiber in 2003 when no one was competing and have covered the whole kingdom by now.

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