TOP STORY: Cable Wins FCC Ruling Over Verizon On Phone Switching INTERACTIVE TV: CableLabs CEO To Telcos: You Can Use Tru2way, Too On the Front Lines · Verizon Stitches Mobile Phone Into Bundles · IPTV Not Stealing Satellite Customers: Study · Comcast Media Center To Launch MPEG-4 VOD Service · Motorola Cuts MPEG-4 Encode Rates · Verizon Takes 50-Meg Service To Entire FiOS Footprint One-Liners

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A majority of the Federal Communications Commission – over the dissent of chairman Kevin Martin – on Monday ordered Verizon to immediately stop using proprietary information to try to retain customers who are switching to cable phone service.

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CableLabs CEO Dick Green, in a keynote at the NXTcomm show in Las Vegas, invited telephone companies to use the cable-developed interactive television specification known as tru2way.

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Verizon, responding to consumers who are giving up their landlines and using wireless as their primary voice service, rolled out a new double-play offer that combines broadband Internet and wireless on one bill.

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Despite almost quadrupling in subscribers in 2007, IPTV services are not stealing customers from satellite television in the Americas region—at least for now, according to iSuppli Corp.

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Comcast Media Center plans to distribute video-on-demand content in MPEG-4 format through SES Americom’s telco-oriented IP-Prime service, pending a definitive agreement between the two companies.

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Motorola introduced a dual-channel MPEG-4 encoding platform, primarily aimed at IPTV operators and programmers, that the vendor claimed can reduce bandwidth as much as 25% for high-action video compared with its existing MPEG-4 encoders.

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Verizon will make FiOS Internet service with 50-megabit-per-second downloads available to more than 10 million homes and businesses, expanding its highest-speed tier to all 16 states where the fiber-optic service has been deployed.

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• NHL Network’s 24-hour suite of hockey in HD and SD will be available to SES Americom's IP-PRIME operators in the United States.

• TeliaSonera has deployed Verimatrix's Video Content Authority System (VCAS) for its IPTV services in the Nordic region, Estonia and Lithuania.

• Verizon began offering FiOS TV in six more New Jersey cities and towns: Bayonne, West New York, Perth Amboy, Plainfield, Loch Arbour and Lakewood.

• Verizon won cable franchise agreements from the New York towns of Amherst and Hamburg, and the Nassau County village of Lawrence; and the Massachussetts towns of Ashland and Plymouth.

• Ericsson said it would demonstrate what it claimed was the world's first 10-Gbps Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) system for IPTV at NXTcomm08 in Las Vegas.

• Amino's AmiNET130 set-top box has been certified for the Minerva Networks IPTV software platform.

• Verimatrix announced VCAS for Mobile TV to let operators offer pay-TV services over mobile phones and other mobile Internet devices.

• UTStarcom will supply its RollingStream IPTV solution to Sri Lanka Telecom Public Ltd. Co. (SLT), the country's largest tier-one wireline and incumbent operator.

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