IPTV services: Growing pains
By James Bloom for Total Content + Media
17 April 2007
IPTV is still in its teething stages; but telcos are rushing to make sure it grows up fast
Nearly 15 million people worldwide could be tuning into IPTV services by the end of this year. But an anecdote from one senior executive close to many rollouts shows that services are still going through growing pains when it comes to quality assurance.
"The CEO of a company we were working for
had installed his own IPTV service at home. He liked to use
a treadmill when he got home from work, but was not aware
that every time he did so the person watching upstairs would
get a bad picture," says Curtis Howe, chief executive
of Mariner XVU, which says it has consulted on quality of
service for most major IPTV launches since 1997.
Howe says electromagnetic disturbance to copper wires in the last mile to the home still accounts for 70% of the problems experienced with IPTV.
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