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North America IPTV not yet eating from satellite's dish

While IPTV growth was very strong in North America last year, the telcos offering IPTV are not yet taking a significant number of customers away from satellite TV companies, according to market Read more...
Tags: Satellite   Pay Tv   iSuppli   IPTV   Cable TV  

Telekom Austria doing HD, time-shifting

Telekom Austria is making an IPTV push, upgrading its aonTV service with the help of Alcatel-Lucent to offer time-shifted TV and HDTV capabilities. The telco also is working on expanding availability Read more...
Tags: Telco   IPTV   HDTV   Cable TV   ADSL2  

AT&T seeks more info on Connecticut consent ruling

AT&T is requesting clarification from the Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control following the agency's ruling that AT&T must obtain retroactive consent from homeowners whose Read more...
Tags: Telco   IPTV   Cable TV  

Cable show: Interactive ads need more time, Canoe awaits chief

At The Cable Show-otherwise known as the National Cable & Telecommunication Association's annual trade show-in New Orleans, cable TV players have been discussing the value and challenges

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FCC ruling hurts U.S. telcos

Telcos have been gaining video customers lately, with an increasing number of them coming at the expense of cable TV companies. Meanwhile, the cable guys have been effective stealing voice customers Read more...
Tags: Verizon   Telco   IPTV   Comcast   Cable TV  

Verizon in no rush to change from RF to IPTV

Verizon Communications often gets lumped in with the IPTV crowd (especially by me. I'll admit) even though the technology it uses to deliver TV services is actually a cable TV-like RF broadcast Read more...
Tags: Verizon   Telco Tv   Rftv   Verizon   Cable TV  

Sezmi aims to redefine TV service models

For those of you who heard about Sezmi Corp. while walking around the National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas last month, and didn't recognize the name, the company is actually video Read more...
Tags: IPTV   Video   Broadband ISPs   NAB   Cable TV  

Comcast takes video hit, but adds telephony subs

Is video becoming a point of market weakness for cable TV companies? That could be the case if we decide to invest in the trend suggested by Comcast's first quarter 2008 earnings report last week. Read more...

Cisco to unveil SDV tuning adapter

Light Reading's Cable Digital News reports that Cisco Systems has developed a switched digital video tuning adapter for one-way digital TVs and TiVo systems with CableCard slots to receive SDV Read more...

Starz adapts Vongo for carrier networks

Cable TV programmer Starz Entertainment has launched a video-on-demand service that also includes a live stream of the original Starz channel, packaged for telco and cable TV company broadband Read more...