For many telcos, IPTV makes sense as a delivery platform or transmission mechanism as much as anything else. Sure, IPTV offers more "hooks" to advanced services integrated with content. But the revenue battle now is over linear TV services that compete with cable and satellite-delivered fare, and that means the choice of "switched" IPTV, instead of a broadband digital delivery method (all linear channels delivered digitally) isn't perhaps as critical.
For Verizon, which has been its video using a method that is closer to cable TV than anything else, linear offerings seem to be fine for the moment. That's where the money is.
Even operators that have chosen an IPTV solution for its bandwidth efficiency still are making their money on the linear video service, not the new features.
Friday, May 16, 2008
IPTV: Why Verizon is in No Hurry
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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