UTStarcom announced a growing sales association with Logicalis. The collaboration will help accelerate the growth of UTStarcom's IPTV product offerings and broadband access solutions to tier-one and tier-two service providers in South America.

KIT digital has agreed to a minimum two-year agreement with IMG, the world's premier and most diversified sports, entertainment and media company. Nunet AG, which KIT digital acquired from IMG earlier this month, has provided IMG with platform support for various IMG events for the past three years. It is intended these services be continued and that the companies will work closely to find new areas of entrepreneurial activity and collaboration.

MBOi and 180SQUARED unveiled the world’s first IPTV Managed Cloud Service called Cirrus Managed Cloud Solutions. The Cirrus solution is built with 180SQUARED’s v.Unison solution set, which enables a shared installation of an IPTV Middleware platform among multiple entities, while maintaining a secure, autonomous environment for each individual entity’s back-end systems and customized offering.

Leaders from the most relevant telecom, broadcast, and IP industry standards bodies and forums will band together at at this year’s TelcoTV conference and Expo for three days of exhibition and one full day of presentations. The TelcoTV09 Conference and Expo takes place from Nov. 10 through Nov. 12 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla. The Standards Pavilion, featuring ATIS, The Broadband Forum, HomePNA, the Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA), MPEG Industry Forum, Open IPTV Forum, TM Forum, and the University of New Hampshire's InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), will be located in the TelcoTV Exhibit Hall (North Hall B) – booth #SP215.

TelcoTV09 announced that Heavy Reading has discovered new revelations about consumer attitudes toward telco TV in its soon-to-be unveiled 2009 survey, “Making TV Pay: The Telco Challenge.” The new consumer survey, which looks at service provider preferences, satisfaction levels, and churn drivers will be presented by Heavy Reading Research analyst, Aditya Kishore at TelcoTV09) on Wednesday, Nov. 11, at noon EST in Room N220G at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla. While many trends identified last year are reinforced by this year’s survey, one of most notable differences is that service bundling is becoming a real competitive advantage for telcos.

The Internet Summit is going live this year. Endavo Media will provide live video streaming services for the Internet industry's premier event in the South. More than 75 industry experts and Internet thought leaders from companies such as Technorati, Pandora, ESPN and Google, will speak at the Raleigh Convention Center on Nov. 4-5 in North Carolina.

Plus, Endavo Media will join an elite group of emerging high-growth companies selected to participate in the Demo Showcase and exhibit innovative Web solutions to hundreds of Internet executives, senior marketers, business strategists, entrepreneurs and investors.

The Future TV Advertising Forum will showcase leading global brands, advertising agencies, pay-TV operators and broadcasters to debate the future of television advertising.

The conference, taking place on the 11th December at 76 Portland Place, London, will feature brands such as Unilever, Coca-Cola, Ford and The Co-Operative Group, discussing topics such as “Advertising in the Age of Convergence”, “How Technology can Drive Ad Revenues” and “Is the 30 Second Ad spot doomed: Ad Business Models in the Modern Era.”