Verizon introduced FiOS TV in the Town of Oyster Bay on Long Island, offering a true choice for subscription television and on-demand programming via the company's all-digital, fiber-optic network. Verizon is the first company to offer such a communications network, connecting homes and businesses directly to fiber optics on a widespread scale.

Latens Systems, Europe’s leading provider of IPTV Conditional Access, today announced that following Multimedia Polska awarding it a contract to provide Conditional Access technology to protect the revenues and content for its IPTV launch, the Latens solution is now installed and fully deployed. Multimedia Polska, which presently has over 450 000 analogue cable subscribers, launched its IPTV service in the second quarter of 2006.

Three cable television operators representing over 600,000 subscribers are collaborating to deliver on-demand services based on systems and software from SeaChange International, Inc.. C-Tech Corp., Chubu Cable and CTY Co. Ltd. are running a market trial of on-demand television prior to rolling out full commercial service to 20 cities in Japan 's Aichi, Gifu and Mie prefectures later this year.

Narrowstep Inc, the TV on the Internet Company, announced that the Company's technology, telvOS, has been chosen by Breakthrough Interactive Group (BIG) to build and power its global martial arts-themed broadband TV portal called MAC Experience. MAC Experience will launch live and worldwide on July 7, 2006.

Packet Vision, the addressable IPTV advertising specialist, has announced that it will commercially launch its new TV advertising delivery platform at the IBC2006 exhibition in Amsterdam, September 8-12 (stand 4.369).

Buzz Technologies, Inc. announces that it has been invited to apply for a Broadcast license in Thailand and has gained permission to test broadcast Mcot signal to devices.

Juniper Networks, Inc. announced that Telge Energi, a utility-based, government-owned communications provider in Sweden, has deployed the E320 Broadband Services Router and the SDX-300 Service Deployment System to create its new broadband access network for the delivery of Triple Play services to residential, corporate and public sector customers throughout the Sodertajle region of Sweden. The network is secured by the Juniper Networks ISG-1000 with integrated intrusion detection and prevention (IDP) system, and was deployed by Juniper's local partner, Imtech Telecom.

The New York Public Service Commission issued June 20 an order confirming Verizon's video franchises in the Long Island communities of the Town of Oyster Bay and the village of Cedarhurst. The Town of Oyster Bay granted the company a franchise on May 9, and the village of Cedarhurst granted a franchise to the company on May 1. The commission has the authority to review franchise agreements between local governments in New York and cable service providers, such as Verizon, to make sure the agreements comply with statewide rules and regulations. Earlier this year, Verizon began offering FiOS TV to residents in the Long Island communities of Massapequa Park and the Town of Hempstead, as well as the Rockland County communities of Nyack, South Nyack and Upper Nyack. FiOS TV is Verizon's state-of-the-art fiber optic television service, which is delivered via the company's fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) network. Verizon currently is bringing fiber connections directly to homes in more than half the states where it offers landline communications services, including more than 150 communities in New York.

Residents of Newark are a major step closer to real choice for their cable television services, thanks to last night’s (June 26) unanimous vote by the city council authorizing Verizon to offer its fiber-optic-powered FiOS TV here.

The Long Island village of Laurel Hollow is bringing its residents a major step closer to choice for their cable television services, thanks to the Village Board of Trustees' unanimous vote last night (June 22) to award a video franchise to Verizon for its FiOS TV service.

glowria, Continental Europe's leading independent personalised on demand entertainment provider, announced today that it had signed an agreement with the Neuf Cegetel Group, the largest alternative telecommunications provider in France, to provide a Video on Demand (VoD) service to Neuf Cegetel's subscribers via TV over DSL and PC.

Kasenna, The IPTV Company, today announced that Cavalier Telephone and TV, an innovative provider of telecommunications services serving over 250,000 homes, has gone live with the United State's first MPEG-4-based (H.264) Broadband TV service, powered by Kasenna's PortalTV solution. With a complete Triple-Play package including advanced features such as on-screen caller ID, Broadcast TV and Video-on- Demand, Cavalier has immediately moved to the forefront of the IPTV industry.

From being a virtually non- existent market in 2003, the IP video test and measurement market saw significant growth in 2005. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (http://www.testandmeasurement.frost.com ), World IP Video Test & Measurement Market, finds that this market earned revenues of $52.2 million in 2005 and is likely to reach $289 million in 2010.

CSI Digital (CSI) announced today the rollout of its Trident wholesale product suite for service customers. Set for delivery to customers September 1st, CSI Digital is the first company nationally to deliver all three digital services, voice, video and data, as an end-to-end solution for content providers.

The competitive gap to offer video services is closing, according to the third annual survey of GLOBALCOMM 2006 attendees by Tellabs and Telephony magazine. More than half of respondents said that telecommunications service providers will emerge as competitors to cable companies in video services within a year. This time frame narrowed from last year's results, where 54 percent felt the gap would close in less than three years.