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By now it is common knowledge that Verizon in the US is providing IPTV service. Is it a full blown strategy to take over the digital television market? Maybe not, but it should be. Cable providers are someone limited over what they can provide over HFC, which makes the move to fiber a greatly important strategy. IPTV equipment manufactures are everywhere now. All of the major players are overseas in the Middle East and Africa region partly because these are places that were not Westernize to invest in cable television. Not only that but licensing was a major issue, and curiously it isn’t anymore.

I travel quite a bit and I am one to tell you that if a movie came out in the states, I will have to wait 6 months to see that same movie in Europe. Due to piracy, this time table has moved up dramatically. I now have to wait sometimes less than a month. This will go a long way in promoting cable television and on demand services. When in Kuwait this past January, I was practically watching a close to real time Apprentice Celebrity edition. Not bad considering that prime time television is the entire day.

The need for IPTV is not seen as a necessity in the US as it is in other countries, mostly third world, who already exploit the benefits Voice over IP and Video on demand services, but it should be. The US economy have long relied on technology convergence. While fiber is being rolled out in most countries at a record pace, the US is still focused on finding a technical strategy.

Dubai is one of the countries that are leading the pack. Along with Tandberg, a company known for video conferencing making a strong push in IPTV with proprietary measures to transmit MPEG-4 to a nation and not just to an organization.

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