[B&C/MCN] Telco-IP Video Update - February 5, 2008 B&CMCN

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February 5, 2008
Top Story
AT&T Knocked for 'Inferior' PEG Channels

The Internet-based technology AT&T touts as giving it an edge over the cable industry was criticized by the Alliance for Community Media as providing an “inferior” platform for public, educational and government channels.

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REGULATORY
Study: Cable Competition in Michigan Moving Slowly

One year after the passage of a law designed to ease the entry into the cable market of competitive providers in Michigan, only 110 of 2,000 communities in the state have a choice of cable providers, according to a study by the law firm Howard & Howard, which counsels municipal governments.

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Brief
AT&T Has Bigger U-verse in K.C.

Turning up the heat on Time Warner Cable in the “BBQ capital of the world,” AT&T said its is offering U-verse TV and Internet services to more than 130,000 living units in the Kansas City metro area.

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MTV, Verizon Do On-Demand Dance

MTV Networks signed a deal with Verizon to offer FiOS TV customers exclusive next-day episode replays of a new dance competition, "MTV's Randy Jackson Presents: America's Best Dance Crew."

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Amino Ships 1 Millionth Set-Top Box

Amino Communications announced that it shipped its 1 millionth IPTV MPEG-2 set-top box in the second half of 2007, with close to 500,000 units distributed last year.

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One-Liners

• AT&T introduced new interactive TV features for U-verse TV customers in San Diego that include customizable news, weather and other information; YellowPages.com listings; and games.

• Verizon began offering FiOS TV to consumers in Wayland and Norfolk, Mass., bringing its presence in the state to 4,700 more households. FiOS TV is now available to consumers in more than 400,000 Massachusetts households in 63 communities.

• Optibase announced that a "major TV network" in the United States, which it did not identify, selected its IPTV solution for an in-house video delivery system.

• Sweden's Dreampark announced the first delivery of its Dreamgallery IPTV middleware to Spanish operator TV Almansa, in cooperation with systems integrator bcSistemas.

• Comverse said the Andorran Telecommunications Service (STA), the telecom run by the country in the eastern Pyrenees mountains and bordered by Spain and France, has deployed its IPTV solution.

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