TOP STORY: Verizon Sues Time Warner Cable Over Ads MOBILE TV: CNN: No Exclusive Wireless Deal With AT&T On the Front Lines · Verizon Agrees To Pull Ad Quoting CNET Article · Verizon Appeals FCC’s Leased Access Rules · Verizon, Cable Operators Spar Over Fiber Claims · FiOS TV Plugged In Six More Garden State Towns One-Liners

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Verizon filed a federal lawsuit last week against Time Warner Cable, alleging the cable operator’s TV ads make “blatantly false” statements about its FiOS services in an attempt to dissuade customers from switching.

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The head of AT&T’s wireless division said last week that CNN would provide the carrier’s second “exclusive” TV channel -- but the news network said there is currently no such deal in place.

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Verizon will discontinue television ads for FiOS TV quoting a CNET News.com article that included the phrase “a near-flawless TV experience” -- which the technology news site said was taken out of context -- after the campaign finishes its run May 15.

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Locking arms with the cable industry, Verizon is going to court to challenge the rock-bottom rates that leased access programmers gained under Federal Communications Commission rules adopted last fall.

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Who can boast supremacy in the delivery of digital products over fiber? Both cable operators and Verizon Communications are staking that claim.

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Expanding its reach in the competitive New York metro area, Verizon Communications said it is now taking orders for FiOS TV in parts of six more New Jersey towns.

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• Microsoft and Sigma Designs announced a collaboration to enable the Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV and multimedia platform to operate on set-top boxes using the new Sigma SMP8654 system-on-a-chip.

• Verimatrix said its Video Content Authority System (VCAS) for IPTV has been deployed for more than 4 million screens.

• Verizon won video franchise agreements in four New York towns: Roslyn Estates on Long Island; Wappingers Falls in Dutchess County; Stony Point in Rockland County; and Hamburg, N.Y., in the western part of the state.

• Harmonic introduced DiviCom FLEX, a universal video and audio decoding module for its DiviCom Electra and Ion encoders, which enables full IP video processing across all headend devices.

• KyLinTV announced the opening of its Content Delivery Center in Toronto to enhance its Chinese IPTV broadcasts.

• India's Eenadu Television Network (ETV) implemented Harmonic’s encoders and statistical multiplexers in upgrading to IP-based MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) digital headends.

• France's Canalsat, part of Vivdendi's Canal+ Group, expanded its ADSL video service with MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) digital video solutions from Harmonic.

• John Wiley & Sons published "Next Generation IPTV Services and Technologies" by IPTV expert Gerard O'Driscoll.

• MatrixStream Technologies introduced the X1 Streaming Server, a two-rack-unit-high solid-state server capable of streaming up to 5,000 HD streams over IP.

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