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Internet protocol television or IPTV is expected to redefine pay TV in the United States by morphing the service from a one-size-fits-all traditional broadcast TV to an open, flexible offering, according to a new study by Yankee Group Research Inc.
By 2011, more than 9 million households in the United States will subscribe to telcoprovided video service, according to Boston-based Yankee Group Research.
"IPTV will forever alter the video ecosystem by creating not only a new breed of service, but also a new breed of service provider," Vince Vittore, a Yankee Group program manager, said in a statement. "The phone company of the past - the 800-pound gorilla - is dead. IPTV will transform telcos from the market dominating gorillas they once were, to street fighting guerrillas." Unlike traditional cable, which is a one-way dump of programming, viewers using IPTV retrieve programming much as people call up Internet sites.
ATTT’s U-verse IPTV television offering became available in the East Bay in December 2006, initially in San Ramon and Danville. The San Antonio telecommunications giant has its California and Nevada headquarters in San Ramon.
In March 2007 the company also announced a U-verse OnTheGo offering with Emeryville's MobiTV Inc.; the service gives U-verse customers access to live television on a personal computer using any broadband Internet connection. MobiTV provides the programming and technology to make television and radio available on cell phones and via the Internet.
Another East Bay company, Alameda's UT Starcom Inc. markets and installs IPTV networks with major customers in China, Japan and India.
Over the Next 10 years, the USA Could Catch up with Asia in FTTH Deployments
DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c84746) has announced the addition of USA - Broadband Market - Fibre to the Home (FttH) Overview & Forecasts to their offering.
Years of unrealised fibre projects have left the USA trailing far behind Asia in the deployment of FttH networks. However, recent changes in US regulation, in the demand for high-speed broadband and for new entertainment media such as IPTV and in falling costs for FttH deployment have all improved the prospects for US FttH. In particular, the loss of voice and broadband revenue to the MSOs has forced the RBOCs’ hands and the USA is finally starting to witness a more concerted fibre deployment effort. Led by Verizon, the RBOCs are committing billions of dollars to building fibre networks. In addition, CLECs and municipalities continue to play an important role in FttH deployments. By mid-2007 FttH deployments in the US were growing at nearly 100% per annum. Over the next 10 years, the USA could catch up with Asia in FttH deployments. The issue then will be the degree of dominance which the RBOCs, aided by regulatory holidays and their mega-mergers, will gain not just in the infrastructure market, but also in the triple play services market.
