During a special session ostensibly called to take care of pressing school and tax legislation, the Texas State Senate passed a hotly contested bill eliminating local franchise requirements for telcos to enter video markets – instead allowing for a single statewide franchise. The bill has pitted Verizon and SBC against cable operators that are fighting to delay the onslaught of IPTV in any way they can. Read More here
Western European IPTV market to reach €2bn in 2009 -- report DMasia.com - France Telecoms operators across Western Europe are launching IPTV services in an effort to increase revenues and improve customer satisfaction for their broadband ...
Verimatrix Tackles Video Piracy Light Reading - USA SAN DIEGO -- Verimatrix, a leading developer of IPTV content protection and security solutions, today announced an additional level of digital watermarking ...
