AT&T's U-verse hits the streets in San Antonio
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T has started the commercial launch of its U-verse IPTV service, beginning today in San Antonio. ...
Experts tout IPTV but advise caution
By: By Ed Gubbins
At Globalcomm 2006, a host of industry experts illuminated the path to competitive IPTV offerings but cautioned carriers against rushing down the path too quickly...
IPTV, youth key telco goals
By: By Stephanie Dell
The gap to offer video services is narrowing, according to the third annual Telephony and Tellabs informal poll of attendees at Globalcomm...
TDG: Telcos preferred Triple Play provider
By: By Carol Wilson
The Diffusion Group says telephone companies hold a slim lead over cable when it comes to consumer preferences for buying bundled voice, data and video services, and with some price advantages, could be a disruptive force in the video entertainment world....
IP Summit: Personalized interaction the key to IPTV
By: By Glenn Bischoff
CHICAGO--The key to successful provisioning of IPTV services will lie in the service provider’s ability to deliver to its customers personalized interaction that replicates what they are currently experiencing on their computers, according to a panel that spoke at the 2006 IP Summit, co-sponsored by Telephony magazine and GlobalComm 2006...
The unwired side of IPTV
By: By Dan O'Shea
Mobile TV and IPTV remain parallel market developments for now, but mobile devices may soon begin to bridge the gap...
The other Albany
By: By Tim McElligott
Chances are Albany Mutual Telephone could show baseball's first triple play viewed over triple-play service...
IPTV ready to think big, start small, move fast
By: By Carol Wilson
Major telephone companies must strike a balance between getting IPTV widely deployed and differentiating their product from that of cable companies by packing in the features...
Silver Star gives Even Technologies first telco IPTV deployment
By: By Tim McElligott
Vancouver, Canada-based Even Technologies, along with its U.S. partner Infinite Video Corp. will deliver their jointly developed IPTV system to Freedom, Wyo.'s Silver Star Networks. ...
Verizon adds Disney soap channel
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon has added a channel for soap opera fans to its exclusive set of Disney channels. Soapnetic, a broadband channel for Disney fans is available exclusively to Verizon broadband customers from Disney-ABC Television Group....
Study: many don’t understand IPTV
By: By Vince Vittore
Nearly one half of all consumers in the U.S. and six select European countries don’t know what the term IPTV means, according to a study from Accenture....
Deutsche Telekom to deploy Microsoft IPTV
By: By Carol Wilson
Microsoft today announced its second-largest worldwide IPTV customer in Deutsche Telekom AG, which will use Microsoft TV IPTV Edition software platform over a VDSL network. ...
mPhase puts together “telco starter kit”
By: By Vince Vittore
mPhase Technologies this week will launch what it’s coined “IPTV in a Box” that packages together virtually everything a carrier would need to launch video service for $500 per subscriber....
IPTV Survey: Early adopters willing to try service
By: By Vince Vittore
Telcos hoping to cash in on initial interest in IP-based video services might want to consider a very traditional strategy—discounts, according to a survey by In-Stat and sponsored by Siemens Communications....
Canby Telephone comes full circle with a twist on video
By: By Vince Vittore
In 2001, Canby Telephone Association sold its incumbent cable operation to Willamette Broadband in a transaction that was fairly typical...
Pannaway builds an Empire
By: By Vince Vittore
Pannaway Technologies announced today that Empire Telephone, an 8400-line independent based in Prattsburgh, NY, is deploying SIP-based voice-over-IP service using a combination of Nortel and Pannaway products...
Siemens looks outside for middleware
By: By Vince Vittore
Middleware vendor ANT Software announced today that Siemens Home and Office Communication Devices (SHC) has licensed its Galio Client to create TV services across a range of devices. ...
IPTV's biggest challenge: Growing the market
By: By Vince Vittore
At the heart of the battle over whether telcos should be required to obtain local video franchises lies one almost inescapable fact...
IP set-top market might be saturated
By: By Vince Vittore
The IP set-top box market was once considered a sector where start-up vendors could make a mark, but the ability of the market to support a multitude of vendors is coming under increased scrutiny...
BellSouth may leapfrog to front of IPTV world
By: By Vince Vittore
While not creating the same noise as its peers AT&T and Verizon in the IPTV market, BellSouth is working on a plan that could move it to the head of the pack in the U.S. ...
IPTV landscape changes, again
By: By Vince Vittore
Several recent announcements from traditional video outlets, Internet portals and the consumer electronics world have the potential to reshape a telco TV landscape in which plans seemed to be gelling just three months ago...
Determining the device
By: By Vince Vittore
For all its promise to bring a different viewing experience to the world, IPTV must deal with certain facts, among them the difficulty in determining the device consumers should use to navigate through an often-complex world of video applications...
