Amino Communications, ReadyLinks and CopperGate Communications announced that they will be demonstrating a solution for distribution and display of IPTV over existing home wiring at the Connections Conference and Showcase May 11-13, 2005 in San Francisco. The demonstration, to be held in the CopperGate booth, #304, will showcase a cost effective solution developed by Amino and ReadyLinks for directly connecting IP set-top boxes to HomePNA 3 multimedia networks over coax cable or phonelines.

Telecom Video Europe, Amsterdam, May 10, 2005: BitBand Technologies and Amino Communications announce the successful completion of the integration between BitBand's Video On Demand solutions and Amino's IPTV set-top box. This joint offering by the two market leading companies is already successfully deployed at customers' sites, including the first IPTV deployment in Ireland, by digital services provider Magnet Networks.

At the Telecom Video 2005 show in Amsterdam this week, MRG is announcing a new installment of its IPTV Tracking Service series, IPTV Content Strategies - May 2005. This report provides a comprehensive analysis of IPTV content deployment strategies in four major global markets. It reveals how international and local content developers, aggregators, and consultants are assisting IPTV service providers in the design and deployment of linear video, video-on-demand (VOD), and interactive services.

According to IDC's recent study "Australia Broadband Market Sizing and Forecast, 2004-2009: Time to Stuff the Pipes" the broadband market is entering a land-grab phase where all Broadband Service Providers (BSPs) are sharpening their offers, cranking up dial-up migration plans and churning out commercial bundles. While the market is entering this very tactical phase, IDC is exploring strategic paths and new market trends occurring in the background, which could have significant impact on the broadband market in the next three years.

Entone Technologies, a leading provider of personal video content delivery solutions, announced that Pioneer Long Distance (PLD), a subsidiary of Pioneer Telephone Cooperative, Inc., has selected Entone's carrier-class video on demand (VOD) and content ingest workflow solutions to support its IP television (IPTV) service launch. PTC's IPTV rollout covers its entire network of 72 exchanges across the state of Oklahoma, providing up to 33,000 homes with IPTV and VOD services.

OpenTV Corp., provider of technologies and services enabling the delivery of digital and interactive television, announced the introduction of OpenTV Core 2.0 for IPTV for cable, satellite and telecommunications operators. The new product, which will be commercially available this June, extends the capabilities of OpenTV's proven, scaleable middleware solutions to network operators wishing to deploy IPTV services over traditional and hybrid broadband IP networks.

With "IP Television Basics", Lawrence Harte and Robert T. Flood add another book to their IPTV series. The book gives an introduction to IP television, how it operates, what services it can provide, why and how companies efficiently upgrade data networks for IPTV, develop new advanced television services, and expand their market through the use of global television channels by using IPTV equipment and software.

Interactive Television Networks, Inc. ("ITVN"), a leading provider of hardware, programming software and interactive networks to the IPTV market announces the distribution of up to 5,000 IPTV set top boxes to consumers nationwide. ITVN is including a 15-day free subscription to XTV Networks, ITVN's critically acclaimed adult network.

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May 10-12, 2005
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The need to move, manage, secure and monetize television and on demand video services has moved beyond getting TV channels to screens in our living rooms. The battle is on to retain and attract subscribers and increase average revenue per user. Traditional digital TV platforms and new emerging players are all building strong innovative new services to win a share of the video consumer’s hearts and minds. Today we are at the dawning of the "Content Everywhere Era" that will see a new generation of consumers interact with video, audio and data in homes, offices, cars, schools, hospitals, shops and cinemas - in fact everywhere, anytime.

Entone Technologies, a leading provider of personal video content delivery solutions, is set to take part in two European industry events in May that will provide an extension of company’s rapidly growing presence in the European video-on-demand (VOD) and home networking markets.

Verizon announced it is rolling out a fiber-optic network – known as fiber to the premises, or FTTP -- to many customers in the Suffolk County communities of Huntington, Huntington Bay, Poquott, Lake Grove and Smithtown, as well as the Nassau County communities of Baxter Estates, Bayville, Centre Island, Cove Neck and Lynbrook.

With the construction of Verizon’s fiber-optic network in more Maryland communities, residents in parts of Anne Arundel, Howard, Montgomery and Prince George’s counties soon will experience one of the most significant advancements in telecommunications technology in the past 100 years.

The company’s new fiber-optic network will deliver faster data speeds and crystal-clear voice to customers – and also has the capability to offer a full suite of future video services. Verizon launched its fiber-optic network in Maryland last year in Montgomery County and is offering high-speed Internet service in several communities on this network. The company will seek a franchise agreement from local authorities before offering cable service in a particular community.

SBC Communications Inc. announced that it has awarded a multi-million dollar, multi-year contract to Amdocs to support Project Lightspeed, the SBC initiative to expand fiber optics deeper into neighborhoods to deliver Internet Protocol or IP-based TV, voice and broadband services.

Lightningcast announces its Mobile Video Advertising Solution. The Mobile Video Advertising Solution seamlessly and dynamically inserts targeted, audited video ads into real-time ("mobile TV") and/or on-demand mobile video streams.