IP Democracy: Must-Read: Economist Piece on IPTV

Courtesy of Om Malik, the July 28 edition of The Economist has a nice piece on the telephone industry’s efforts to launch IPTV services. As Om points out, there’s nothing new in the article, but it is a concise summary of the state-of-play regarding telco-delivered IPTV.

One amusing characterization: noting that phone companies are under siege by competitors in the voice arena and outlining the huge financial risks telcos take in build fiber-to-the-premise networks, the article states that IPTV is “a sort of last-ditch charge by a cornered beast.”

Posted by Cynthia Brumfield on July 31, 2005 11:09 AM to IP Democracy