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Study: 9M Americans will use IPTV by 2011 - East Bay Business Times:

This is one of the reasons I am so interested in the Sky Angel IPTV. Could it be possible that Sky Angel is leading the way into the future of TV?

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Internet protocol television or IPTV is expected to redefine pay TV in the United States by morphing the service from a one-size-fits-all traditional broadcast TV to an open, flexible offering, according to a new study by Yankee Group Research Inc.

By 2011, more than 9 million households in the United States will subscribe to telco-provided video service, according to Boston-based Yankee Group Research.

"IPTV will forever alter the video ecosystem by creating not only a new breed of service, but also a new breed of service provider," Vince Vittore, a Yankee Group program manager, said in a statement. "The phone company of the past - the 800-pound gorilla - is dead. IPTV will transform telcos from the market dominating gorillas they once were, to street fighting guerrillas."

Unlike traditional cable, which is a one-way dump of programming, viewers using IPTV retrieve programming much as people call up Internet sites.

AT&T Inc.'s U-verse IPTV television offering became available in the East Bay in December 2006, initially in San Ramon and Danville. The San Antonio telecommunications giant has its California and Nevada headquarters in San Ramon.

In March 2007 the company also announced a U-verse OnTheGo offering with Emeryville's MobiTV Inc.; the service gives U-verse customers access to live television on a personal computer using any broadband Internet connection. MobiTV provides the programming and technology to make television and radio available on cell phones and via the Internet.

Another East Bay company, Alameda's UTStarcom Inc., markets and installs IPTV networks with major customers in China, Japan and India.