eWAN1, Inc. announced today that the Company's management emerged from its Los Angeles 'Strategic Summit' with executives of RMD Entertainment Group with a definitive launch date that will utilize RMD's highly-anticipated MoTV technology platform to deliver EWAN's cable television and video content to cell phones and PDA devices worldwide. The launch of MoTV is anticipated to coincide with the launch of EWAN's global IPtv service on April 15th, 2006.

March 5-10, 2006
Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, CA, USA

Over the last 12 months, video has emerged as the killer app for IP. According to a recent report from Infonetics Research, IPTV subscribers are increasing briskly and will top 53 million worldwide by 2009. Additionally, subscriber growth is strong in all regions, especially in Asia Pacific. Technology experts from around the world will converge at OFC/NFOEC next week to report on and discuss the state of IPTV and its impact worldwide.

Ikanos Communications, a leading developer and provider of Fiber Fast broadband solutions, today announced that its SmartLeap SL9400 solution is powering Swisscom Fixnet's rollout of VDSL-based IPTV and triple-play services.

By selecting VDSL to deploy triple play and other interactive services, Swisscom Fixnet is able to provide a flexible video delivery service that is designed to be superior to cable operators' offerings.

TANDBERG Television today announced that it has worked closely with Siemens to provide the MPEG-4 AVC video compression that enabled the deployment of IPTV for Shanghai Telecom and the Shanghai Media Group. The Shanghai partnership was the first operation in China to secure an IPTV license and has been trialling its new digital television service since the summer of 2004. The full service was launched last month to an audience over 100% higher than the anticipated subscriber base in Shanghai's up-market Pudong district and demand has now already exceeded the end of year forecast. The service is delivering over 50 channels of content from providers such as CCTV and Shanghai Media Group.

Alloptic, Inc., a global leader in the design and development of Gigabit Ethernet Passive Optical Networks (GEPONs), the most widely deployed next generation access network solution, announced that they have signed a distribution agreement with value-added distributor DF Countryman as part of its continuing expansion in sales channels worldwide. DF Countryman is an industry leader in serving multiple service operators (MSOs) with broadband solutions.

An extraordinary line-up of keynote speakers featuring CEOs from across the communications, entertainment and technology landscape will take center stage next month at TelecomNEXT, the only place where the business and technology of communications and entertainment meet. TelecomNEXT replaces SUPERCOMM as USTelecom's annual industry show and will be held in Las Vegas, March 19-23, 2006.

The Telecommunications Industry Association and Telecommunications Magazine announce TELECOM U, an executive roundtable series at GLOBALCOMM 2006, taking place June 5-8 at McCormick Place in Chicago. TELECOM U will be held in the heart of GLOBALCOMM 2006--the exhibit floor--and is free of charge to all GLOBALCOMM 2006 attendees.

Motorola, Inc. announced it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Kreatel Communications AB.

Kreatel is a leading developer of innovative Internet Protocol (IPTV) based digital set-tops. Kreatel's Linux-based solution extends into the application and middleware layers, allowing it to be used with a broad set of middleware solutions. This flexible set-top platform is a natural complement to Motorola's end-to-end digital video solutions. Motorola offers flexible solutions throughout the cable, xDSL, and fiber-to-the-premise (FTTP) video chain -- including network infrastructure, video headend and transport, industry-leading MPEG-4 encoding, and connected home devices.

Swedish IPTV operator FastTV, which delivers IP-TV in the Scandinavian countries, extends its current agreement with Caleo Technologies to deliver Billing and CRM-service also for Norway and Denmark. The solution which is based on Caleo’s own software product, Billiant is FastTV’s main platform for Billing and Customer care. The platform is fully integrated with FastTV’s administrative systems and also includes fully automated service provisioning towards the underlying network.

MIPTV featuring MILIA 2006 unveils an unprecedented keynote speaker line-up, bringing together such diverse international talents as reality television visionary Mark Burnett, AOL’s Jonathan Miller, the BBC’s Ashley Highfield, IAC/InterActiveCorp’s Michael Jackson, FremantleMedia’s Gary Carter and NTT DoCoMo’s Takeshi Natsuno.

Latens, the producer of Europe's most deployed software-based security for IPTV and Satlan, Poland’s leading systems integrator, today announced that the companies are working together to ensure that Satlan's cable and IPTV projects can be secured by Latens advanced software-based Content & Revenue Protection systems.

Participatory Culture Foundation launched Democracy, the world's first comprehensive open source internet TV system. As components of the Democracy system have been released over the past few months, the undertaking has become one of the most popular and blogged about projects in the technology world.

JupiterResearch, a division of Jupitermedia Corporation, finds that 52% of consumers would switch pay TV services if they could get a better price for the same channel selection. According to a new report entitled: "IPTV: Simple Benefits, Not New Technology, Most Effectively Compete Against Cable", JupiterResearch reveals what consumers regard as the most important elements in pay TV services, and challenges phone companies and others face as they begin to deploy competitive TV offerings. JupiterResearch is a leading authority on the impact of the Internet and emerging consumer technologies on business.

May 16-17, 2006
Monte Carlo, Monaco

IMS Conferences announced that IP Trends Europe, the premier IP Video event, will be held on May 16th & 17th, 2006, at the Grimaldi Forum in Monte Carlo, Monaco. This promises to be a truly unique conference, covering all aspects of IP Video for multi-channel TV, Video on Demand and mobile devices, as well as Voice over IP (VoIP).

ESPRE Solutions is pleased to announce that an article written by ESPRE's CEO, Pete Ianace, has been published in the February issue of TMC's Internet Telephony Magazine. The February issue is dedicated to the advantages of IPTV and is appropriately titled, Strike it Rich with IPTV. The article, IPTV Trends, highlights the advantages of IPTV offerings by today's major telecommunication providers and the competitive threats telcos will face in their rollout.