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The BBC’s Project Canvas IPTV open standard<br />
will cost £115.6 million to run over a four-year<br />
period and considerably more to the broadcaster<br />
than previous estimates suggested should only<br />
four partners be <strong>in</strong>volved. The BBC’s orig<strong>in</strong>al<br />
submission put the cost of Canvas to the BBC<br />
at £16.6 million, based on four partners be<strong>in</strong>g<br />
<strong>in</strong>volved, but this projection has now been<br />
revised to £24.7 million. In total, <strong>in</strong> the time it<br />
has taken to develop the proposal and <strong>in</strong> the<br />
first four years of Canvas be<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> operation, the<br />
total cost to all parties would be £115.6 million.<br />
BSKYB MAKES SKY PLAYER<br />
AVAILABLE ON HYBRID BOX<br />
BSkyB has put its Sky Player onl<strong>in</strong>e catch-up<br />
TV service on a hybrid DTT/IPTV set-top box<br />
alongside the BBC iPlayer. As part of a deal<br />
with IP Vision, the Sky Player is now available<br />
via its Fetch TV SmartBoxes, which<br />
became the first hybrid DTT/IPTV devices <strong>in</strong><br />
the market to feature the iPlayer. The partnership<br />
means that channels <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g Sky<br />
Movies, Sky Sports and others, will feature via<br />
IPTV on the Fetch TV boxes by early 2010.<br />
N O R T H A M E R I C A<br />
CANADA<br />
MTS ALLSTREAM LAUNCHES PVR SERVICE<br />
MTS Allstream launched what it claims is Canada’s<br />
first whole-home PVR service. Accord<strong>in</strong>g to the<br />
company, the service, which is offered on its<br />
Microsoft Mediaroom-powered IPTV platform,<br />
MTS Ultimate TV (available <strong>in</strong> Portage, La Prairie,<br />
Brandon and W<strong>in</strong>nipeg) for CAN$ 5:00 a month,<br />
allows users to record up to three programs at the<br />
same time and play back programs from any con-<br />
nected TV <strong>in</strong> the home, as well as pause, replay<br />
and rew<strong>in</strong>d live TV from their ma<strong>in</strong> set-top box.<br />
TELUS EXPANDS IPTV COVERAGE<br />
Telus has reportedly expanded coverage of its<br />
IPTV services <strong>in</strong> western Canada. The company’s<br />
IPTV service is now available to the residents <strong>in</strong><br />
Lethbridge and Medic<strong>in</strong>e Hat <strong>in</strong> Alberta and Campbell<br />
River <strong>in</strong> British Columbia. Telus TV offers<br />
more than 390 channels (<strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g 35 HDTV channels),<br />
VOD service and a PVR. The company’s<br />
IPTV subscriber base exceeded 137,000 customers,<br />
represent<strong>in</strong>g an 83% year-over-year growth.<br />
UNITED STATES<br />
CONSOLIDATED SETS RECORD<br />
FOR IPTV ADDITIONS<br />
Consolidated Communications, which has<br />
operations <strong>in</strong> Ill<strong>in</strong>ois, Texas and Pennsylvania,<br />
reported the company’s highest-ever IPTV<br />
subscriber additions for a s<strong>in</strong>gle quarter. Consolidated<br />
signed up 1,800 customers dur<strong>in</strong>g the<br />
third quarter, and now has more than 21,500<br />
total. The company’s IPTV subscriber take has<br />
<strong>in</strong>creased by almost 40% over the past year.<br />
AT&T AND VERIZON SET FOR<br />
DOUBLE DIGITAL IPTV GROWTH<br />
AT&T and Verizon are expected to post doubledigit<br />
IPTV subscriber growth <strong>in</strong> their respective<br />
third quarter releases, accord<strong>in</strong>g to analyst<br />
firm Strategy Analytics. The firm estimates that<br />
Verizon`s FiOS TV customer base will grow<br />
12% <strong>in</strong> the quarter, exceed<strong>in</strong>g 2.8 million total<br />
subscribers. Meanwhile, AT&T is expected to<br />
add over 250,000 new U-verse subs, imply<strong>in</strong>g<br />
a 17% sequential growth rate. A recent report<br />
published by Strategy Analytics shows US IPTV<br />
grow<strong>in</strong>g to 15.5 million subscribers by 2013.<br />
THOMSON, LIVETV TO DEPLOY IPTV<br />
TECHNOLOGY<br />
Thomson signed a long-term contract with LiveTV<br />
to develop of a live TV broadcast system for<br />
aircraft based on Thomson’s IPTV-based <strong>satellite</strong><br />
television distribution technology. The solution<br />
aims to enable networks to convert <strong>satellite</strong> content<br />
<strong>in</strong>to video-over-IP content for distribution and view<strong>in</strong>g<br />
on <strong>in</strong>dividual seat back screens. Thomson’s<br />
system will offer digital and live <strong>in</strong>sertion channels<br />
as well as an electronic program guide service.<br />
ECHOSTAR VIP-TV TO DELIVER<br />
SERVICE TO CT COMMUNICATIONS<br />
EchoStar Satellite Services will deliver its ViP-TV<br />
video transport service to CT Communications.<br />
CT Communications will receive transport of up<br />
to 46 IP-encapsulated high def<strong>in</strong>ition TV channels<br />
to its IP headend. It supplies triple-play services<br />
to more than 8,000 customers <strong>in</strong> Western Ohio.<br />
EchoStar’s ViP-TV transport service can offer<br />
a suite of services, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g a secure, MPEG-4<br />
encoded IP stream of approximately 300 popular,<br />
broadcast-quality TV and music channels<br />
from a <strong>satellite</strong> located at 85 degrees West.<br />
TV2MORO LAUNCHES ARABIC TV SERVICE<br />
TV2Moro has launched a subscription pay-TV<br />
service to serve Arabic communities <strong>in</strong> the US and<br />
Canada. The service is available <strong>in</strong> two packages,<br />
basic and premium, through a set-top box and<br />
<strong>in</strong>cludes channels such as Al-Jazeera English,<br />
Al Hayat 1 and 2, and Orbit Al Yawm. A further<br />
10 channels will be added <strong>in</strong> the near future.<br />
AT&T IPTV SERVICE TOPS 2<br />
MILLION CUSTOMERS<br />
AT&T announced <strong>in</strong> December that it has reached<br />
its 2 millionth AT&T U-verse TV customer. In 2009,<br />
the operator added more than 25 HD channels and<br />
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