Telecompetitor

Verizon is joining the iPad/tablet movement, where video service providers are extending their subscription video product to mobile tablets. There’s so much momentum with this trend, it led be to ask the question is Apple hijacking TV Everywhere? In Verizon’s case, they made a ...

I began covering IPTV back in 1998 when I was employed at NTCA. There was this small company based in Reno, Nevada called SourceNet who was interested in talking with NTCA members (who are rural telcos) about this software they had that let’s phone companies deliver multichannel video ...

Turner Broadcasting Systems (TBS) is now using new online video content management technology from Adobe and FreeWheel to deliver online programming across screens large, small and mobile via Verizon's FiOS. Telecompetitors such as Verizon and content providers such as TBS are looking to the new functionality to fill ...

NEW YORK – July 15, 2010 – Verizon is offering FiOS TV customers another opportunity to see the latest in 3D programming, with a new video-on-demand offering from WealthTV.  The premier luxury lifestyle and entertainment network is making an episode of its series on classic cars, "Wealth on Wheels Classic," available in 3D - only for Verizon's FiOS TV subscribers. "As we progress ...

HickoryTech, the Mankato, Minn based independent telco, has decided to upgrade their IPTV middleware, choosing to stay with Nokia Siemens Network (NSN) for their Home Entertainment 3.0 IPTV platform. Home Entertainment 3.0 evolved from ...

Verizon outlined earlier this year their plans for 3DTV service for FiOS. With that in mind, they’ve just announced their first 3DTV broadcasts will take place in July, featuring New York Yankees-Seattle Mariners baseball games on the ...

San Mateo, California, May 3, 2010 – Entone, Inc., a leading provider of Hybrid TV solutions, today announced that South Central Rural Telephone Coop has selected Entone's award-winning Hydra™ IP video gateway and Amulet™ IPTV receiver for their high-definition (HD) IPTV service launch. Founded in 1950, SCRTC is a regional telecommunications provider covering nine counties within South Central Kentucky, including: Barren, ...

We’ve been covering Verizon’s FiOS widget strategy (I tend to use the term widget and app interchangeably) for some time now. They’ve been steadily expanding the scope of their FiOS widget bazaar to include a variety ...

Looking to capitalize on the growing interest in 3D TV, Verizon says they will offer 3D service over FiOS TV this year, by the holiday buying season for sure. In their Verizon at Home blog, Jim Smith, ...

Contrary to the fears of many, the advent of OTT and mobile video is not cannibalizing conventional TV viewing - that is if you believe Nielsen's latest research. Americans continue to watch more TV, a trend being fueled by ...