Standards, step one
By: By Carol Wilson
The announcement this week of the first set of IPTV standards from the International Telecommunications Union is certainly welcome, but many within the IPTV segment see this is the first of what will be many steps in the process of standardizing IPTV...
Squeezable services
By: By Ed Gubbins
The term couch potato is more than just a cute nickname for television consumers. Though we talk a lot about how to win over those couch potatoes, we too often forget what the term really means: lazy, shiftless people...
What is IPTV?
By: By Ken Pyle, President of Viodi LLC
Given the relatively high profile of IPTV in the telecommunications industry, it may seem strange to ask such a fundamental question...
How much bandwidth to the home is enough?
By: By Rich Karpinski
Of course, that's the million-dollar question as service providers, led by AT&T and Verizon, experiment and invest to find the right amount of fiber -- at the right price -- to deliver services to the home...
Head to head on IPTV
By: By Carol Wilson
Last week provided a rare opportunity to see the two largest U.S. telcos lifting the veil on IPTV -- albeit in two very different venues. Peter Hill, vice president of voice and converged services at AT&T, took the stage ...
Our IPTV wish list's Top 10
By: By Danny Briere
Operators offering IPTV are going to find it increasingly hard to convince users that pretty TV guides and 10,000 video-on-demand titles are enough to switch from cable and satellite offerings...
Live from Dallas, it's Telephony LIVE!
By: By Rich Karpinski
I'm writing this from Telephony's first freestanding conference, an event everyone at the publication is extremely excited about this week. We've got some great keynoters and content-heavy session tracks on video services (which I'm tending), converged services and enterprise services. Do you see a theme here? ...
It's 'put up' time
By: By Carol Wilson
As a die-hard Cubs fan, I could be talking about the baseball playoffs, but in this case, the headline above references promises being made by AT&T and Verizon as they convinced state legislators to implement statewide video franchises...
My killer apps
By: By Joan Engebretson
I don't consider myself a typical consumer. I like grapefruit juice but not orange juice. I like Manhattan clam chowder, German potato salad and almond (not lemon) poppyseed muffins...
The day after
By: By Carol Wilson
IPTV isn't exactly fitting into this mold. The technology has been deployed by independent service providers for the last two years, and by major players internationally as well, so it's no longer just hype...
Alien alliance
By: By Tim McElligott
Even the most vehement adversaries can put down their pitchforks and laser guns to join forces against a common enemy. And that's what the National Telecommunications...
So this is IPTV
By: By Carol Wilson
The early knock on telephone company TV efforts was that the service they were providing looked too much like what consumers were already buying from a cable or satellite company, forcing telcos to compete too much on price...
The importance of IPTV
By: By Dan O'Shea
A recent report from Dittberner says the U.S. is not among the top 10 countries worldwide for IPTV subscribership. This probably comes as a surprise to almost no one...
Hurray for us!
By: By Carol Wilson
I'd like to say I am among those chosen by Time Magazine as person of the year, and as an Internet user and contributor, I probably qualify. But what I do is journalism, and while the Internet has dramatically changed the nature of my job and how I work...
Long December
By: By Ed Gubbins
Are you nervously eyeing the calendar, fretting over the quickly shrinking number of days left to shop for Christmas presents or finish other 2006 projects before the year ends?...
Shifting to neutral
By: By Dan O'Shea
For a little while last night and this morning, I thought that the Net neutrality issue was going to to be the big post-Election Day news...
IPTV and then some
By: By Dan O’Shea
We have been hearing a lot lately about how well the cable TV companies are performing in the telephony business. As telcos launch themselves into competition with cable TV companies...
Eye on Europe
By: By Ed Gubbins
Plenty of people will be keeping a close eye on the IPTV service that Swisscom launched today, as it uses the same Microsoft middleware that AT&T's U-Verse employs. ...
Star power in Beantown
By: By Tim McElligott
VON, the Voice on the Net event, is produced by Jeff Pulver, chairman and founder of pulver.com and iconic figure for the new-age, disruptive success of voice over IP. ...
The house of IPTV
By: By Ed Gubbins
Alan Weinkrantz is inviting folks from all over the globe to come to his house to watch TV. The public relations man boasts one of the few houses anywhere in which folks can compare, with their own eyes, AT&T's new U-verse video service with that of Time Warner Cable....
InFocus: Ensuring IPTV quality
By: By Marc Todd, IneoQuest Technologies, Inc. and Shane Broyles, Rural Telephone Service Company, Inc.
For Telcos, deploying IPTV in remote areas is a market sweet spot – it offers customers the perfect blend of choice and services and it’s often an area unsupported by cable providers. The challenge for many Telcos is to provide customers with the same or better quality of video that they expect from their broadcast or satellite providers...
Opportunity rocks
By: By Tim McElligott
Market opportunity. It's the first figure cited in every hopeful business case, the apparition that pops the eyes and the banquet that waters the mouth of every entrepreneur...
Do telcos get it?
By: By Dan O'Shea
For years, people said, "Telcos just don't get Ethernet," and for good reason. They were busy pushing ATM and other solutions for local area network access and management even though Ethernet--a technology born of the enterprise, rather than the public network--quickly became the dominant LAN standard...
Party politics
By: By Ed Gubbins
To help build buzz for its new IPTV service, AT&T has enlisted Matthew Dowd, one of the political strategists behind President George W. Bush's 2004 re-election campaign...
IPTV's next big target
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Ericsson is now in the IPTV business, and though it may be a latecomer, it might just have a few interesting twists to bring to the table...
