TOP STORY: Verizon Plans Rate Hike For FiOS WIRELESS: AT&T Bows Mobile TV After Months of Delays On the Front Lines · Verizon To Cut Off Analog TV In Massachusetts · IPTV Equipment Sales Grew 47% in 2007 · Motorola Signs Reseller Deal With Widevine · Verizon To Build FiOS TV Hub In Washington State · Ion Closes Carriage Deal With NRTC One-Liners

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Verizon will raise prices on certain FiOS services sometime this quarter -- its third such increase within the last 18 months -- but the telco isn't yet providing specifics.

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AT&T launched its months-delayed mobile TV service on May 4 in 58 markets, provided through Qualcomm subsidiary MediaFLO USA, with 10 channels of cable and broadcast programming.

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Verizon will eliminate analog versions of local broadcast channels for FiOS TV customers in Massachusetts on May 12, continuing its transition to all-digital operation as part of an agreement with the Federal Communications Commission.

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The IPTV equipment market grew 47% year over year in 2007, with Cisco Systems reaping the lion's share of the revenue, according to a report from Synergy Research Group.

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Motorola’s Home and Networks Mobility Division has signed a global reseller agreement with Widevine Technologies that will let Motorola sell, service and support Widevine’s downloadable conditional access and digital rights management products globally.

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Verizon plans to establish a regional video hub office in Everett, Wash., that the company said will be a “key component” of its plans enter the video market in the state.

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Ion Media Networks reached a carriage deal for its broadcast network and digital networks with the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative, which serves a market of more than 10 million homes.

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• Verizon announced planned capital investment of approximately $86 million in new network technology for Rhode Island in 2008. The plan would extend FiOS TV service to an additional 10 communities and expands its Providence-based Fiber Solutions Center, where at least 50 more technicians and customer service representatives will be hired.

• Verizon last week began taking orders for FiOS TV three New York communities: the villages of Roslyn Harbor on Long Island, Wappingers Falls in Dutchess County, and the village of Plattekill and portions of the village of Wallkill within the town of Newburgh in Orange County.

• Verizon was granted cable franchises in the 6,000-household community of Walpole, Mass.

• India's IOL Netcom selected Verimatrix as the content security provider for its on-demand IPTV service with more than 250,000 subscribers and will offer premium MPEG-4 content to PCs through Verimatrix’s ViewRight PC Player.

• IPTVDomains.com said it will auction six IPTV-related Internet domain names: IPTVBox.com, IPTVBoxes.com, IPTVSetTopBox.com, IPTVSetTopBoxes.com, IPTVSetTop.com and SetTop-Boxes.com.

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