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Hype Machine: IPTV Takes Center Stage at TelecomNEXT

Of course, the telecoms are trying to make you forget about the whole 'network neutrality' issue, as well as how much the services that they want to shove down your throat will cost you, but that's beside the point . Buy our wares!

Personally, I think that the cellphone industry's business development practices & expectations are sorely broken -- but of course, time will tell if I'm right, or not.

With regards to TV over IP/DSL (or perhaps other last-mile technologies [e.g. FIOS]), well -- let's just say that the telcos have given themselves enough rope to hang themselves with.

An AP newswire article by Peter Svensson, via Yahoo! News, reports that:

At the telecommunications conference here this week, a visitor could be forgiven for thinking he missed a turn and walked into the wrong trade show, a more glamorous one that dealt with entertainment rather than the plain old telephone system.

Every other booth at TelecomNEXT, which ended Thursday, had some demonstration of how phone companies can deliver video programming. A visit by the chief executive of The Walt Disney Co. underlined that for the companies here, the future of "telephone" is spelled "television."

posted by Fergie @ 3/23/2006 03:55:00 PM