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AT&T Q4 2011 wireline growth driven by ongoing video, broadband gains – FierceTelecom

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“AT&T’s (NYSE: T) wireline division in Q4 2011 was once again buoyed by gains in its U-verse broadband and video services and IP-based business services.

Broadband and video: During the quarter, the service provider added 208,000 AT&T U-verse TV and 587,000 U-Verse Internet customers, but posted a net loss of 49,000 broadband customers due to users in non U-verse markets adopting faster cable modem connections. However, it continues to make gains with U-verse, passing over 30 million living units. At the end of the quarter AT&T had a total of 5.6 million video subscribers, a figure that consists of both U-verse and bundled satellite customers. ”

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Latest Headline: CNBC on @RokuPlayer

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“Read all about it…new in the Channel Store…Roku adds CNBC Real-Time. I just need a drivers cap and some suspenders, speaking of which, anyone remember Newsies? I digress. Anyways, here is a closer look at the new CNBC channel on Roku.

 

CNBC Real-Time:

CNBC Real-Time features live, real-time stock quotes directly from the NYSE and NASDAQ. Additionally, the channel offers a personalized watch list (with the click of the remote, you can edit your stock list), news alerts and CNBC’s editor’s picks for the most important news videos of the day.”

Verizon, Mediacom customers get access to Fox on Demand content via @FierceIPTV

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“Apparently, if you build it, they will come. Fox Networks, which in August built a paywall around its online content, has added Verizon (NYSE: VZ) FiOS and Mediacom to its currently thin roster of pay-TV providers who have reached a deal with the company to give subscribers authenticated access to Fox On Demand.

Verizon subs gained access to the online content earlier this month, and Fox says Mediacom customers will be able to log on to watch back episodes of shows like Glee, Family Guy and Terra Nova in the coming weeks.”

Will Google Droid Up the Set-Top Box? via Light Reading Cable

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"While much of Google (Nasdaq: GOOG)’s $12.5 billion deal for Motorola Mobility Inc. (NYSE: MMI) has centered on mobile devices and patent protection, the buy may also help Google bridge Android to a set-top world that’s been under the tight control of cable operators and other video service providers. (See Google Buying Moto Mobility for $12.5B and Google Plays Favorites With Moto Buy.)

 

Most analysts agree that Google’s timing for Android couldn’t be better as MSOs start to migrate to IP-based video platforms and more capable set-tops and gateways, but they question whether MSOs will want to play ball with Google, even if it becomes a corporate cousin to one of the cable industry’s biggest suppliers.

 

The Android OS and app market could help cable unclog its set-top software and applications bottleneck and help MSOs innovate in an area where platforms such as tru2way have not, says Imran Shah, managing partner at Interactive Broadband Consulting Group LLC (IBB) , a firm that counts Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) and Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: TWC) among its clients. (See Tru2way: Epic Fail at Retail.)

 

‘The software environment is wide open’ as cable operators launch their IP video migration plans and start to mix in IP-only boxes as well as hybrid QAM/IP video gateways, Shah says. ‘The timing is really good if Google can play it right.’

 

But to make it work, he thinks Google, in conjunction with Motorola Mobility, must do a better job working with MSOs if it’s to have success integrating navigation and search apps that must be tightly coupled with an operator’s pay-TV service, rather than focusing on lighter, widget-like ‘over-the-top’ apps that it’s been using on the Google TV platform."