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Phone companies to introduce Internet-based TV service

BellSouth and the nation’s other regional telecommunications giants have reason to worry: As wireless customers ditch their landlines and cable TV companies begin offering phone service, the old Baby Bells’ core business is under serious attack.
Get ready for the counteroffensive.

As soon as next year, telephone companies are expected to make a bold play to grab customers from cable and satellite TV operators with the launch of a new, high-tech video service.

Internet protocol television, or IPTV, uses the technology that powers the Web to deliver video. BellSouth and the two largest of the former Baby Bells, Verizon and SBC, are working on projects to deliver IPTV to their customers using voice lines.

By Christopher Boyd
Knight Ridder News Service

Full Story: http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_2941585

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