TOP STORY: AT&T Questions Connecticut Agency On U-verse Ruling REGULATORY: Verizon Another Step Closer To NYC Franchise On the Front Lines · AT&T Needs Consent To Install U-verse Equipment · Onstream To Buy IPTV Firm Narrowstep · Verizon Takes TV, VOD Listings To The Web One-Liners

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AT&T filed a motion with Connecticut’s Department of Public Utility Control seeking “clarification” on certain details of the agency’s ruling that the telco must obtain consent retroactively from property owners living next to U-verse equipment installed on rights-of-way.

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New York City's Franchise and Concession Review Committee last week voted unanimously to approve Verizon Communications’ proposal to provide TV service in all five boroughs of the city.

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AT&T will have to go back to property owners living near its U-verse equipment in Connecticut and obtain consent for the hardware placements, according to an order from the state's Department of Public Utility Control.

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Onstream Media, a provider of Internet video services, announced plans to acquire IPTV platform company Narrowstep, in a deal worth up to $19 million.

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Verizon's FiOS TV Central site provides access to TV listings and video-on-demand titles and is supposed to eventually let subscribers program their digital video recorders.

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• Russia's VimpelCom-Communications plans to use Microsoft's Mediaroom IPTV software platform for the Corbina TV service, expected to launch in mid-2008 with more than 100 linear channels.

• Verizon received a video franchise from the town of Taunton, Mass., making it the 71st Massachusetts community where FiOS TV is or will soon be available.

• Duo County Telephone Cooperative, a Kentucky-based service provider, has deployed Integra5's Converged Services Platform across its market footprint to roll out caller ID on the TV.

• Denmark's A+ Group is preparing to launch cable IPTV service this month using GoBackTV’s GigaQAM IP with CMTS bypass technology.

• Israel's HOT Telecommunications Systems has implemented a full suite of Harmonic’s IP-based digital video solutions to further consolidate operations and expand cable video service to include high-definition television.

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