In its 2006 results presentation, Deutsche Telekom put strong emphasis on its IPTV plans. At the end of 2006 it had introduced IPTV service in 10 cities using VDSL technology. In 2007, it plans to offer IPTV using ADSL-2+ in 750 cities and to extend its VDSL coverage to 50 cities by the end of 2008. It expects to offer IPTV to 17 million homes by the end of 2007, which will increase its market coverage from 16 percent today to 44 percent. It plans to start a market push for its ADSL-2+ IPTV service in the second half of 2007.
Its IPTV offering will include access to digital terrestrial DVB-T channels, to 150 broadcast channels, to the all important Bundesliga football matches, and to 1,200 movies on demand. It will also provide HDTV services and interactive TV services in 2007.
Deutsche Telekom expects to have between 100 and 200 thousand IPTV subscribers by the end of 2007 and 1.5 million subscribers in 2010.
You can find the presentation at http://www.deutschetelekom.com/dtag/cms/content/dt/en/212058.
Deutsche Telekom has laid out an aggressive program. Our primary concern is if the Microsoft software is robust enough to support it. The AT&T Microsoft deployment has certainly not proved the Microsoft us put to the task as yet. Deutsche Telekom and AT&T are the two service providers to watch to measure Microsoft's ability to support large IPTV deployments.
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thanks for the informative post. it doesn't seem reasonable that MSTV won't manage to be scaled to millions of users. microsoft is too strong a player to let it fail.
anyway, this is great news for HLIT,ECIL and SI , right?
The problem today is not whether or not the Microsft IPTV Edition software will scale. I agree with you that Microsoft will make that happen.
The problem today is that there is not much evidence the that Microsoft package is robust enough to support a service provider system. Microsoft will solve these problems. The question is when.
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