IPTV No Longer Risky for Telcos
from Light Reading
It's no longer risky for telecom service providers to offer IPTV services, AT&T's Jeff Weber told TelcoTV attendees. Weber, the vice president of U-verse and video products, said AT&T's ability to deliver a better TV service than its cable competitors and to continually add applications and features is proof positive of IPTV's viability. The next step, Weber added, is making video services easier to control and view on multiple platforms. At earlier TelcoTV events, AT&T faced questions about the viability of doing IPTV over copper, then concerns about offering high-definition TV over copper, then doubts about the potential delivery of two simultaneous HDTV channels. "We are way past that now," Weber said. "The ecosystem has developed that enables us to offer a better TV product. The risk in terms of getting into TV just isn't there." More

Focused Content Will Help Indie Telcos Stick Out
from Fierce Telecom
The challenge for any telco building an IPTV business, especially a smaller independent telco that wants to compete with cable, is that they often fall into the trap of offering nothing more than me-too service (VOD and HDTV). However, a morning workshop at this week's TelcoTV show illustrated that independent telcos can find real differentiation over cable and satellite by offering their customers focused content. More

OTT Video Could Speed Metered Billing
from Light Reading
Metered billing may be one telecom service provider response to the growing success of over-the-top video, one network operator told a TelcoTV audience. "Some of our consumers are using much more bandwidth than our enterprise customers," said Paul Bertino, director of product management and marketing for HickoryTech, an independent CLEC and fiber optic network operator in Minnesota. With consumer groups clamoring for broadband prices to go down to enable more people to connect, and network costs going up to handle the growing bandwidth demands, someone has to pay, Bertino said. "If not those who are consuming most of the bandwidth, then who?" More

Why the Transition to IPv6 is Tricky
from Multichannel News
IPv6 rides with some pretty colorful language. Without it, for instance, the global Internet faces “IP address exhaustion.” With it, we could theoretically affix an IP address to “every atom on the surface of Earth.” But getting to IPv6 (from IPv4) won’t be trivial, engineers said over and over during the recent SCTE Cable Tec Expo. More

GSMA Predicts Massive Mobile Broadband Growth
from GoMo News
The GSMA has released figures from Wireless Intelligence which show that mobile broadband in the shape of HSPA networks are expanding fast. There are now 285 commercially operating HSPA networks, supporting more than 167.5 million connexions. The research has also revealed that there are over 1,600 HSPA-enabled devices. The GSMA didn’t break this down into how many of these were smartphones as opposed to netbooks, laptops and PC dongles. More

Mobile CDN Makes Its Move
from Telephony Online
Mobile data consumption is on a steep upswing, thanks to mass adoption of smartphones and the deployment of faster 3G and 4G networks. While North American mobile operators have struggled to keep up with consumer demand for mobile data, they have yet to dedicate to their mobile networks the same investment in content delivery technologies seen in the wireline world. Some content delivery network (CDN) providers such as Akamai and Limelight have begun offering mobile versions of their CDN services. And start-ups have emerged with a particular focus on mobile CDN, including Transpera, Ortiva Wireless, Movik Networks and Mobile CDN. More

Managing Data Better Key to New Service Revenues
from Telephony Online
Data integration vendor Informatica has released a new version of its core platform, Informatica 9, which it says telecom service providers like KPN and others are using to pull together customer and network data to search out new market opportunities.The new Informatica release brings new data capabilities to the platform, including improved data quality tools, improved event processing capabilities and interfaces to integrate into cloud computer data sources. More

Fiber-fed Wholesale Wireless Backhaul Market Takes Off
from Telephony Online
As wireless carriers roll out 3G and 4G technologies amid the fast proliferation of data-sucking smartphones, cranking up mobile data bandwidth needs, the market for wholesale fiber connectivity to cell towers is taking off. Wireless carriers have been deploying their own fiber to cell towers for some time, but as the average tower hosts multiple service provider tenants, each of which rarely consume enough capacity to justify fiber, a wholesale model in which tenants share infrastructure is the best approach in many cases. But the market has really revved up in recent weeks as some big names have launched fiber to the cell tower services, including Level 3 Communications, Qwest Communications and Verizon, all of whom see fiber backhaul as a salve to wholesale operations that have been hit hard by years of declining voice transport revenues. More

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