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Introduction
Editor Stuart Thomson
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European
IPTV deployments have achieved lift-off in the last year, with
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operators such as France Telecom/Orange, Telefónica, TeliaSonera,
Assistant Editor Graham Pomphrey
Belgacom and BT really beginning to attract significant subscriber uptake and alternative
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providers such as Free and Neuf Cegetel continuing to make strong progress.
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It remains the case that operators are largely competing on price; offering triple-play
Advertisement Director Katrina Coyne
bundles are great value to the consumer. However, in order to drive up average revenue per
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unit, operators may have to make further investment in their platforms.
Operators and technologists are looking at a number of ways to improve profitability and
International Sales Manager
technologies that support many of these will be on display at this year’s IBC. Amongst them
Patricia Arescy
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are targeted advertising (which can add value to video-on-demand), operator-managed home
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networking (allowing IPTV to be delivered to other TVs, PCs, games consoles and mobile
phones), the integration of IPTV with online video, and fixed-mobile convergence (providing
Art Director Matthew Humberstone
a wide range of opportunities to integrate the TV experience with telecommunications and
Publisher Lydia Blackwood
drive up revenues with applications such as video telephony). Printing Wyndeham Grange
In IPTV@IBC08 (the sixth annual edition of this Cable & Satellite Europe supplement) we
IPTV@IBC08 is published by
will look at the new business models and applications that are emerging, and the technologies
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that can support them.
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IPTV at the crossroads 2
VOD is the business 10
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IBC 2008, the leading event in Europe covering the
creation, management and delivery of multimedia
IPTV and the networked home 22
content, will take place at the RAI Centre in
Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The conference runs
from September 11-16. The exhibition runs from
IBC: the preview 28
September 12-16. Full details, including a
comprehensive list of speakers and exhibitors and
registration information, are available at www.ibc.org
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