TOP STORY: Sprint Teams With Cable on WiMax DIGITAL TRANSITION: Verizon FiOS TV Eliminates Analog in Jersey On the Front Lines · Startup Blends Over-the-Air TV With Broadband One-Liners

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Sprint Nextel and Clearwire -- along with Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks, Intel and Google -- announced a joint venture to create a nationwide WiMax high-speed network to cover between 120 million and 140 million people in the U.S. by 2010.

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Verizon Communications will cease analog transmission of local broadcast stations to FiOS TV subscribers in New Jersey on June 2, as the telco continues its commitment to convert to all-digital operation.

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Sezmi, the startup formerly known as Building B, is promising local television broadcasters and telcos a way to get into the multichannel video business.

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• Verizon has begun building fiber-to-the-home in parts of Hampton Roads, Va., and the company plans to begin upgrading facilities in the coming months in nearby Poquoson, Portsmouth and York County. Verizon also continues its build in Chesapeake, Newport News and Virginia Beach.

• NXTcomm08 (June 16-19, Las Vegas Convention Center) will include an exhibit-floor IPTV studio and expanded conference sessions featuring converging technologies and IPTV equipment.

• The city council of Manassas, Va., granted Verizon a 15-year cable franchise on May 5 covering approximately 12,000 households.

• Worldwide shipments of IPTV set-top boxes will grow at a compound annual rate of 37.1% through the end of 2012, according to an IMS Research study.

• Verizon was granted a cable franchise for the 4,000-household town of Lakeville, Mass.

• Verizon began marketing FiOS TV to 8,500 households in Rochester and Walpole, Mass.

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