[B&C/MCN] Telco-IP Video Update - April 22, 2008 B&CMCN
TELCO-IP Television Update, sponsored by NDS, AccuWeather and BuyerZone



April 22, 2008
Top Story
AT&T Tunes In 379,000 U-verse TV Subscribers

AT&T continued to rack up subscribers for its IPTV service in the first quarter, hitting 379,000 U-verse TV users as of March 31, while at the same time disconnections in the telephone company’s legacy wireline business hit an all-time high.

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REGULATORY
Verizon Asks For New York City-Wide Franchise

Verizon applied for a franchise that would let it serve all five boroughs of the city with a fiber network it would build out by mid-2014.

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Verizon Cleared To Use Retention Marketing Data

The FCC said Verizon can continue to use information gleaned from competitors, who submit requests to port a user's number from Verizon to a new provider, for retention marketing purposes.

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AT&T, Verizon Sign Carriage Deals For Lifetime HD Channel

Lifetime Networks has closed carriage deals with AT&T U-verse TV and Verizon FiOS TV to carry the new Lifetime Television HD service. The two telcos have carried Lifetime Movie Network HD on their video services since 2007.

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Verizon Settles Suit Alleging FiOS TV Data Was Inflated

Verizon settled a lawsuit with a New York marketing firm that had accused the telecommunications giant of fraudulently including FiOS TV subscribers not yet connected as part of the total number of viewers quoted for advertising rates.

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AT&T Expands U-Verse Service In Michigan

Telco to launch triple play in 40 communities in West Michigan.

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Verizon Denied Temporary Restraining Order

A federal judge denied Verizon Communications’ request for a temporary restraining order to block two Time Warner Cable TV spots mocking the telephone company’s FiOS services.

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One-Liners

• The number of households worldwide subscribing to telco TV or IPTV services grew from 4.7 million in 2006 to more than 14 million in 2007, according to Parks Associates.

• Verizon was granted a video franchise from the village and town of Orchard Park, N.Y., in Erie County, bringing the total number of New York communities that have approved video franchises for the telco to 108.

• The Dutch Caribbean’s Telefonia Bonairiano NV (Telbo) selected Kasenna LivingRoom middleware and MediaBase video servers to launch the first IPTV service in the island of Bonaire.

• Sweden's Dreampark, an IPTV middleware provider, announced integration with ZyXEL Communications's STB-1003 IP set-top box for broadcast and video-on-demand applications.

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