TOP STORY: Cablevision Keeps MSBNC From Telcos PROMOTIONS: Verizon’s HDTV Set Freebies Delayed On the Front Lines · AT&T Dropped Music Choice Channels in November · Report: U.S. IPTV Users to Top 9 Million by 2011 · AT&T Throws Rotten Tomatoes at VOD One-Liners

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In much of the New York area, subscribers to phone-company television services can’t see the news channel because MSNBC’s carriage agreement with Cablevision Systems precludes its telco TV competitors from offering the news channel to their subscribers.

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Verizon Communications has raised the ire of some new FiOS triple-play subscribers by saying they may have to wait nearly four months to receive the free Sharp Electronics HDTV sets the telco promised as part of a broad promotion last year.

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AT&T confirmed that it stopped offering Music Choice’s suite of 50-plus channels to U-verse TV customers back in November, less than a year after the two companies announced their distribution deal.

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The number of IPTV subscribers in the United States is projected to increase sevenfold in the next four years, from 1.4 million in 2007 to 9.8 million in 2011, according to a recent report from Yankee Group.

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AT&T inked a deal with News Corp.’s IGN Entertainment to provide U-verse TV subscribers access to reviews from IGN’s Rotten Tomatoes movie site as part of its video-on-demand service.

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• AT&T U-verse TV and Internet services are now available to more than 160,000 living units in and around Sacramento, Calif., where the telco first introduced the service in August 2007.

• A report from ABI Research forecasts IPTV subscribers worldwide growing from about 13.5 million in 2007 to more than 90 million by the end of 2013.

• Tandberg Television said Dubai-based telco du selected its iPlex UltraCompression IPTV video processing and transcoding system. Du, launched in February 2007, has more than 1.5 million customers.

• ANT announced that South Korea's Hyundai Digital Technology has licensed the ANT Galio client for its next-generation IPTV set-top box.

• Poland's Multimedia Polska is using Tandberg Television's OpenStream Digital Services to power its video-on-demand services for hybrid cable/IPTV television package.

• Telefonia Bonairiano NV, a telecommunications provider in the Dutch Caribbean, has selected Amino Communications' AmiNET125 multicodec set-top box for the the first IPTV service on the Caribbean island of Bonaire.

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