TOP STORY: Verizon's FiOS Buildout Could Top Original Estimates DEPLOYMENTS: Microsoft Hits 2 Million IPTV Screens On the Front Lines · Cisco To Buy Danish Video-Management Player · Amino Debuts HD-Only IPTV Set-Top · Verizon Offers Free Movies For the Summer · Time Warner Prepared For NYC Verizon Battle · Minerva Touts 10 North American IPTV Wins One-Liners

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Verizon COO Denny Strigl hinted at an industry conference that the telco’s multibillion-dollar FiOS buildout could exceed the 18 million homes the company initially expected to pass by the end of 2010.

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Microsoft is touting that its Mediaroom IPTV software now serves more than 2 million set-top boxes, doubling its footprint in less than six months.

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Cisco Systems plans to acquire Denmark-based DiviTech A/S, a provider of digital-service management systems for broadcasters, cable and IPTV operators.

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Amino Communications, a U.K.-based IPTV set-top manufacturer, has developed a unit with only a digital high-definition video output that the company claimed is about 20% less expensive than its existing HD solution.

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Verizon launched a subscriber-acquisition program Monday offering new FiOS TV subscribers 90 days of free access to the 45-channel Movie Package.

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Time Warner Cable chief operating officer Landel Hobbs said the cable operator is prepared to fight back Verizon's encroachment into the New York City video market with advanced services and innovative pricing plans.

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Minerva Networks added 10 more customers for its IPTV platform in North America, including Mt. Horeb Telephone in Wisconsin, Tullahoma Utilities in Tennessee, and GTA TeleGuam in Guam.

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• Advanced Digital Broadcast signed a distribution agreement for its IPTV set-tops with Graybar, a North American distributor of electrical, communications, data and security products.

• AT&T launched U-verse in Reno and Sparks, Nev.

• Verizon began offering FiOS TV in Taunton, Mass., on June 11, where it competes with Comcast.

• The city of Rockville, Md., signed an agreement for Verizon to begin construction of its fiber-to-the-premises network this fall. Verizon and Rockville still must negotiate a franchise that would authorize the telco to offer FiOS TV service in the city.

• IPTV software provider ANT announced that Coship, a Chinese set-top box manufacturer, has licensed the ANT Galio Browser.

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