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[Telecom Jungle Musings] In order to speed up their deployment of IPTV services (and eliminate having to haggle with towns and cities), SBC and Verizon are trying to eliminate the local TV franchise concept, instead writing laws that would pass single, .

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[Minerva Networks IPTV Blog] Minerva Networks IPTV Blog » IPTV Fast Forward: I remember in 1995 working on the SBC Richardson, Texas trial that everyone thought would change the face of telecom services.  SBC built this amazing headend facility and infrastructure in Richardson, we (meaning everyone at NUKO, the encoder vendor for the project) thought it was just the beginning of a giant industry shift.  Fast forward to 1999, Next Level is rolling out service with Qwest and few others, ImagicTV is entering the market, Oracle is touting its video server, and a small company called SourceNet (later to become Myrio) is building an IPTV solution in Reno with three people.  Many things happened from that point forward (it would make for interesting book on the history and people that worked in the IPTV industry)”¦”¦two things stayed the same IPTV products were hard to build, particularly the set-top boxes, and growth was slower than most people anticipated.  Everyone continued their hard work right through the Telecom drought, always believing that consumers wanted something better and that IPTV was the holy grail.  I remember stomping through the Swedish snow in January installing a Minerva, SourceNet, StellarOne, SGI system at Telia in 2000 (my dates are a little fuzzy, so excuse any inaccuracies) and thinking we are almost there (I brought the wrong shoes might have been a good metaphor for the result).

[~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] 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.

[IP Convergence: Beyond VoIP, Beyond Cost Savings blogs] Unfettered access | IP Convergence: Beyond VoIP, Beyond Cost Savings: So with the cable industry over powered and conflicted on the ultimate outcome, and AT&T and MCI taken out of the game, it falls to the consumer groups and remaining CLECs to challenge SBC and Verizon in their pursuit of franchises and franchise reform. Of course neither of these groups has the financial resources to support themselves let alone participate in dozens (or even hundreds) of franchise hearings, municipal votes, state legislative debates, and Congressional hearings. 

[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"

[Broadband Bananas] Broadband Bananas - IPTV: The last mile, fiber or copper?: On the one hand, analysts have argued that the cost of a Fiber-to-the-Premise (FTTP) deployment by Verizon, between $600 and $700 per subscriber for Broadband Passive Optical Network (BPON), is too capital intensive and will slow the mass deployment of triple-play services. On the other hand, the Fiber-to-the-Node (FTTN) architecture selected by AT&T will not deliver sufficient bandwidth to accommodate the interactive multimedia and High Definition services required to compete with rival Multi-Service Operator (MSO) and satellite networks.

[CNET News.com] SBC fights regulations | News Blog - CNET News: SBC is also looking to be exempt from regulation on its proposed Internet Protocol TV service. The company has been publicly pushing its stance, saying that its new IPTV service is different from traditional cable TV and therefore should not be subject to the same rules as cable services.

[Vortex Blog] IPTV and a major regulatory issue comes home to my town: Verizon and its brethren like SBC are spending heavy coin lobbying for legislative changes that would exempt them from being subjected to the same licensing process the cable companies have had to endure with local communities across the country. The gist of their argument is that when Congress allowed competitive carriers into the telecom market, those new entrants faced fewer regulatory requirements.

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[Joystiq] Hands-on with IPTV on Xbox 360 - Joystiq: 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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