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The IP Prime conversion race is on, and apparently Avail Media just jumped out to the lead. They announced today they have converted 9 former SES AMERICOM IP Prime affiliates to their managed IPTV platform. Once former competitors, IP Prime and Avail Media offer a managed IPTV service for smaller telco and cable operators, providing content aggregation and an end-to-end integrated IPTV technology ...

SES AMERICOM has pulled the plug on IP Prime. They’ve announced that effective July 31, 2009, “it will cease providing its IPTV service in North America - IP-PRIME…” SES had signed up approximately 70 or so telcos for the end-to-end IPTV service. It’s somewhat ironic that SES pulled the plug when they did, considering that just last week their CFO was touting progress at an industry ...