Comments on: The Unclear Prospects of IP-TV http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/04/01/the-unclear-prospects-of-ip-tv/ Insight and Analysis from North of the Border Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:30:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: b http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/04/01/the-unclear-prospects-of-ip-tv/#comment-4830 b Mon, 02 Apr 2007 03:01:32 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/04/01/the-unclear-prospects-of-ip-tv/#comment-4830 It is a little unclear what is happening. Bell reported in December that it had passed one million homes with the FTTN network. This is a year behind the original schedule you cite (1M per year for four years). However, the announced plan was to double that during 2007 by getting back to the 1 million per year pace. This would represent an acceleration of the IPTV deployment. If the Globe & Mail story is accurate, this pace will then slow down with the final two million (there are no plans to cover the rest of Bell's customers beyond the 4.3 million homes mentioned) taking an additional three years (to end of 2010 or early 2011) -- and ending up a full two years behind schedule. Given that IPTV has been put off to as late as 2008 (despite the same press release you mention describing it as ready for launch "shortly thereafter"), the pace of the network roll-out may not matter. It is a little unclear what is happening. Bell reported in December that it had passed one million homes with the FTTN network. This is a year behind the original schedule you cite (1M per year for four years). However, the announced plan was to double that during 2007 by getting back to the 1 million per year pace. This would represent an acceleration of the IPTV deployment.

If the Globe & Mail story is accurate, this pace will then slow down with the final two million (there are no plans to cover the rest of Bell’s customers beyond the 4.3 million homes mentioned) taking an additional three years (to end of 2010 or early 2011) — and ending up a full two years behind schedule.

Given that IPTV has been put off to as late as 2008 (despite the same press release you mention describing it as ready for launch “shortly thereafter”), the pace of the network roll-out may not matter.

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