SBC, Verizon execs say '05 will bring big start in video.(Cable Rivals Tango in Vegas)

Multichannel News, January, 2005 by Stump, Matt

LAS VEGAS -- This Consumer Electronics Show might well be remembered as tire video coming out party for the big phone companies. From a main address by SBC Communications Inc. CEO Edward Whitacre, to Microsoft Corp.'s news that it was testing Internet-protocol TV with Bell-South Corp.

to a strong presence by Verizon Communications Inc.--with a Court TV carriage deal in hand--the telcos made their grand entrance into the pay TV business. Unveiling "U-Verse"--the new brand moniker for SBC's IP vision of wireless and wire-line video, voice and data for consumers--Whitacre said: "2005 will be a transformative year for consumers. You control your universe." Whitacre's company is spending $4 billion on its LightSpeed fiber-to-the-node build, as well...

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