News of the Day

• Telecoms, cable compete in on demand
  Verizon Communications' FiOS on-demand offering and Comcast's on-demand programming available in the Baltimore area represent an industry-wide battle to attract customers. The video-on-demand and subscriber-video-on-demand market is expected to reach $1.6 billion this year, up from $1.15 billion in 2006. The Sun (Baltimore) (free registration) (3/4)

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Business & Industry Watch

• Scripps forges video agreement with rural telecoms
  Scripps Networks inked a deal with members of a rural telecom group covering a host of networks including HGTV, Food Network and DIY. Scripps unveiled a video deal with AT&T last week. Broadcasting & Cable (3/5)

• Alcatel-Lucent chief stands behind the merger
  CEO Patricia Russo sees the seven-week-old Alcatel-Lucent merger as a good fit and expects revenue growth to be in the mid-single digits this year. Russo remains bullish on the merger, noting that people with Internet access is on pace to reach 5 billion by 2015. Financial Times (3/5)

• Nortel, NDS team for IPTV in Europe
  Nortel and NDS plan to deliver IPTV services to the European market. Nortel's voice and multimedia solutions will be integrated into NDS' MediaHighway middleware as part of the collaboration effort. Telecompaper (The Netherlands) (3/5)

• Operators vie for Singapore broadband network
  Twelve companies and consortium have thrown their hats in the ring and pre-qualified as bidders to construct an island-wide broadband network in Singapore. Nippon Telegraph & Telephone and Siemens AG are among the individual bidders, while consortium participants include SingTel, MobileOne, Cisco Systems and Alcatel-Lucent. The Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones Newswires (subscription required) (3/4)

• Cisco snaps up some of Utah Street's assets
  Cisco Systems plans to integrate assets, including technology designed to enable the creation of online communities, purchased from Utah Street Networks into its media solutions group. As part of the deal, some Utah Street employees will join Cisco. Forbes/Associated Press (3/5)

• Motorola chief receives $13 million in compensation
  Ed Zander was paid $13.2 million in 2006, $1.5 million of which was salary, according to a proxy statement. Motorola holds a 22% share of the worldwide handset market, and it expects double-digit profitability in the second half of this year. The Philadelphia Inquirer/Associated Press (3/5)

• Time Warner Cable launches mobile TV in Cincinnati
  Time Warner Cable, through its joint venture with Sprint, is rolling out mobile TV in the Cincinnati area Monday. Cincinnati is the third city to offer Cable Mobile Access, a service that allows subscribers to view selected TV shows on Sprint mobile phones. The Cincinnati Enquirer (3/5)

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Hot Topics

Top five news stories selected by USTelecom dailyLead readers in the past week.

• Verizon makes a bold move with FiOS (USA TODAY)

• AT&T calls for VDSL interoperability standards (EE Times)

• Ericsson offers $1.4 billion bid for Tandberg (Bloomberg)

• Launch of Apple's TV device on hold (The Associated Press)

• AT&T plans to ramp up U-verse rollouts (San Francisco Chronicle)

• Results based on number of times each story was clicked by readers.

Technology Trends

• Bay Area embraces broadband
  DSL outstrips cable-modem penetration in the San Francisco Bay Area among residents that own a computer, 55% to 29%, respectively. Overall broadband penetration stands at about 62% for the Bay Area -- the national average is 42%. San Francisco Chronicle (3/5)

• Avaya adds on VoIP services
  Avaya has unveiled its CEBP (Communications Enabled Business Processes) solution, a Web-services platform for voice communications. CEBP is designed to enable enterprises to bring together VoIP and service-oriented architecture. InfoWorld (3/5)

• Opinion: Apple TV not a game-changing device
  John Martellaro writes that while Apple's TV device, which can take video and put it on an HDTV, is nifty, it won't create a sea change in the video industry. MacNewsWorld.com (3/4)

• Qualcomm plans MediaFLO trial in Taipei
  Qualcomm is joining forces with China Network Systems and Taiwan Television Enterprise to stage a MediaFLO technical trial set to begin this month. Qualcomm views Taiwan as a key market for MediaFLO given the 84% pay-TV penetration in the region. Forbes/AFX News Limited (3/4)

• Column: Technology the tipping point for new-age TV
  Media critic Tom Maurstad writes that we're in the midst of a digital, wireless, virtual revolution. The TV set will become a focal point for the convergence of new technologies. The Dallas Morning News (3/4)

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