Verizon threw down the gauntlet today with the announcement that it has trialed speeds of close to 1 Gbps using existing FiOS GPON equipment from Motorola. In other words, Verizon is showing it can hit the Gigabit mark without even migrating to new 10GPON technologies. “The trial, conducted at an existing FiOS business customer location, [...]
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Telco TV has limited availability in the US today. Verizon and AT&T have passed significant milestones in a short period of time, but even with rapid growth, there are still plenty of areas without access either to FiOS or U-verse services. (My neighborhood included) Which is why I find it interesting that telco TV revenues [...]
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Sources: Bank of America Merrill Lynch, May 2010; InStat, US Market for Web-based TV Widgets & Apps, March 2010 Motorola Senior Director Buddy Snow joined a FierceIPTV webinar today on the topic of The Connected TV, and one of the items he highlighted was the graph shown above. On the one hand, projected growth for [...]
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I can argue all I want that over-the-top (OTT) video isn’t going to kill off cable and telco TV services. But nothing drives the point home quite like a revenue projection chart. According to analyst firm Infonetics (via Fierce IPTV), global pay-TV revenues will top $250 billion in 2014, a jump of $60-$70 billion in [...]
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I found myself grumbling recently about the lack of good content available from the Netflix Watch Instantly library. Yes, I am a Netflix subscriber, but due to the limited streaming catalog, I don’t watch nearly as much content from Netflix as I do from my Comcast VOD service. Which brings up an interesting point. Exactly [...]
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