More IPTV World Forum Coverage: Content and Discontent

From Telecommunications Online, which has extensive coverage from this week IPTV World Forum conference in London…some content related stories:

IPTV Will Be No Big Money-Spinner, Says BT: That’s a shocker: While BT Entertainment CEO Andrew Burke felt that they were encouraging signs in the UK market that could give IPTV a fighting chance there were still some worrying unknowns. “We don’t know how much to bid for content,” he said. “We don’t know the size of the market.”

IPTV and its Discontents: ISPs present at the IPTV Forum in London give the impression that they are on the back foot when it comes to coaxing content out of the major providers.

Content is a Demanding King: It is not always easy for smaller ISPs to get access to the right content. Though distributors like Fox say that they do not have a “hurdle number” for the subscriber base that an ISP must have, the smaller players beg to differ. “Content providers often want minimum guarantees – and large ones,” says Richard Ayers, portal director at Tiscali UK.

Fastweb: TV Not the Carrot for Triple Play: To gain market share and the high ARPU, Paolo Agostinelli, Fastweb’s CMO, stresses the need to first offer a very competitive voice and internet access service with perceived value – it is only then can you hope to reel in the even higher ARPU triple-play subscribers who use TV.

TV Can Work for Telcos: IPTV is “still not a licence to print money”.

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