News Analysis - Mark Sullivan - Post a comment November 30, 2006 : Light Readers believe Alcatel-Lucent will cut more jobs than the 10%projected back in April, with most of the cuts coming from the Lucent side, according to the results of our latest poll
News Analysis - Mark Sullivan - Comments (2) November 29, 2006 : Carrier crosses major hurdle in delivering a cable-beating video service, also begins shipping new Motorola set-top boxes. Rival Time Warner Cable highlights U-verse's limited availability
LR Cable News Analysis - Alan Breznick - Comments (13) November 28, 2006 : The complaint charges that the nation's second largest MSO suffered numerous service breakdowns, broke pledges to its new subscribers, and didn't offer rebates or credits for cable outages
News Analysis - Mark Sullivan - Comments (3) November 28, 2006 : A Diffusion Group opinion piece says Alcatel's recently filed suit against Microsoft over video processing patents signals the end of the market-dominating IPTV partnership between the two
News Analysis - Mark Sullivan - Comments (10) November 27, 2006 : Cisco is putting together a set of vendor partners to deliver an end-to-end IPTV distribution system that may include Siemens/Myrio; the move would put Cisco in direct competition with Alcatel/Microsoft
LR Cable News Analysis - Alan Breznick - Post a comment November 27, 2006 : Time Warner, which introduced the Start Over product in Columbia, SC, almost exactly a year ago, is now expanding the limited time-shifting service to San Antonio, Greensboro/Winston-Salem, NC, and Rochester, NY
News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Post a comment November 23, 2006 : It looks like your ordinary patent suit, but the timing is close to the Lucent merger approval and the Xbox announcement of video downloads. Time to start spinning theories
LR Cable News Analysis - Alan Breznick - Post a comment November 22, 2006 : Staging the cable industry's biggest test yet of dynamic video-on-demand advertising, Charter Communications has begun inserting commercials freely on two VOD channels in the St. Louis metro area
LR Cable News Analysis - Alan Breznick - Comments (10) November 20, 2006 : Despite $100 billion in hybrid fiber-coax (HFC) upgrades over the past decade, North American cable operators could still be chasing fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) networks, says a new report
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment November 18, 2006 : Final approval comes from the office of the President of the United States, and the two companies expect to tie the knot on November 30
Reports - Mark Sullivan - Comment (1) November 29, 2006 : A comparison of services that could complement carrier IPTV offerings
* Akimbo
* Xbox Live
* MovieBeam
* Apple iTunes
* Movielink
* iFilm
News Wire Feed - Post a comment November 30, 2006 : Italian service provider denies meeting with BSkyB
News Wire Feed - Post a comment November 30, 2006 : Nokia announces DVB-H broadcast mobile TV pilot with Indian national television broadcaster Doordarshan
News Wire Feed - Post a comment November 30, 2006 : Cuts net loss from $14.2M, or $0.17 per share, in Q305 to $11.1M, or $0.12 per share
News Wire Feed - Post a comment November 29, 2006 : Streaming21 will showcase IPTV and mobile TV gear at ITU Telecom World
News Wire Feed - Post a comment November 28, 2006 : YouTube announced that, in early December, its leading video entertainment service will be available to people on mobile devices
LR Cable News Wire Feed - Post a comment November 28, 2006 : AT&T announced the expanded availability in San Antonio of AT&T U-verse services, which now include High Definition (HD) programming
News Wire Feed - Post a comment November 28, 2006 : Zhejiang has deployed Juniper Networks E320 Routers and T-series core routers to introduce new advanced IPTV and other multiplay services
News Wire Feed - Post a comment November 28, 2006 : Juniper's product enhancements enable network providers to efficiently and reliably transport video services throughout the IP network core
LR Cable News Wire Feed - Post a comment November 27, 2006 : TVN Entertainment and New Line Cinema announced a multi-year VOD licensing deal
News Wire Feed - Post a comment November 27, 2006 : Cabo Verde Telecom has awarded Siemens Networks a contract to supply a turnkey IPTV solution for TV via DSL broadband
Cable Guy - Alan Breznick - Post a comment November 29, 2006 : Nobody knows how to tick off consumers better than cable operators
BroadBananas - Michael Harris - Post a comment November 9, 2006 : Cable overbuilder says it's finally ready to conduct a major test of VOIP
Cable Guy - Alan Breznick - Post a comment November 8, 2006 : Moto boasts its On-Demand Solutions unit powers Start Over
Light Ranting - R. Scott Raynovich - Light Reading - Post a comment November 7, 2006 : 3:40 PM -- The Xbox gets a movie trailer
EuroBlog - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment November 7, 2006 : 9:45 AM -- France Telecom is getting into the movie business
Cable Guy - Alan Breznick - Comments (3) November 1, 2006 : It's the Rodney Dangerfield of MSOs
BroadBananas - Michael Harris - Post a comment November 1, 2006 : Ma Bell still limps along with limited IPTV rollouts
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