Cablevision news from FierceIPTV

While some cable TV companies are taking an obvious hit from telco IPTV competition (see Comcast), others may not be seeing much of an impact. Cablevision Systems last week said it added 41,000 Read more...

Switched digital video is one of several technologies that cable TV companies are looking toward to improve the efficiency and revenue potential of their services and their ability to compete with Read more...

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...

Cable executives aren't coming undone over Verizon FiOSTV, according to reports that emerged from last week's Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference in New York. Comcast chief operating officer, Read more...

Cablevision and other local cable providers have taken Verizon to task, and now the telco is ramping up its connection speeds for its FiOS service to 50 Mbps downstream and 5 Mbps upstream. Read more...

While recent reports peg the current U.S. IPTV subscriber base at about 500,000, Cablevision now joins Time Warner in the 1 million VoIP customer club. Cablevision claims it has saved $500 million Read more...

> SPL Innotech has a key patent for ad insertion into VoD services. Article > Broadbus and Axiom partner to help Read more...

Cable companies are reacting to phone companies' TV plans and are devising ways to fend off the competition:

• Cablevision plans to begin testing the RS-DVR system on Long Island in the Read more...