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Orange still eyes U.K. IPTV launch
France Telecom's Orange will launch IPTV service in the U.K. sometime this year, according to comments from the company's CEO at last week's Mip TV trade show. Though Orange already has launched IPTV Read more...
Court approves new MDU rules
An appeals court has rejected an attempt by the National Cable and Telecommunications Association to stop new rules that abolish exclusive service contracts between cable operators and owners of Read more...
NDS and EchoStar documents published
Key documents in EchoStar's $1 billion action against News Corporation's NDS encryption business have been published revealing the nefarious world of pay-TV piracy. Charlie Ergen's EchoStar is Read more...
Real estate lobby calls for U-verse fire probe
A real estate lobby group has asked attorneys general from five states to investigate claims of fires from vaults associated with AT&T's U-verse IPTV service. The attorneys general are from Read more...
AT&T U-verse rolls into Chicago
AT&T remains committed to its aggressive IPTV roll out and this week comes to Chicago for its biggest ever deployment and remains on track to hit one million users by the end of the year. The Read more...
FCC's Martin looking lonely
Just two weeks after FCC chief Kevin Martin floated his re-regulation of big cable idea, he looks decidedly isolated with fellow commissioners and congressional members of both flavors seriously Read more...
Video market place evolves
Not a day goes by without an announcement of yet another start up in the internet video space. This week it is Sync TV, a spin off from consumer electronics company Pioneer, which is launching a Read more...
Back in the Dark Ages
Down under the television networks are doing their level best to wind the clocks back. Australia's broadcasting incumbents have always wielded extraordinary political clout and after years of Read more...
U-verse given the green light in Connecticut
AT&T has been granted a franchise for its IPTV U-verse service in Connecticut after a state court overturned a decision by the local utility regulator which required U-verse to have to get a Read more...
Lawmakers target LimeWire and potential pirates
A bill referred to the House Judiciary Committee last week would fatten fines for copyright infringement, going so far as to include intent to distribute. H.R. 3155, introduced by Rep. Steve Chabot Read more...