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Telecom Italia and Microsoft Enter Internet TV Partnership

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 13, 2004 - 4:43am.
Milan -- Telecom Italia announced on Monday that it has forged a partnership with Microsoft to begin testing the software giant's Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) software. Once completed, IPTV will allow telephone companies to offer TV-related subscriber services through two-way broadband networks, which in turn will enable TVs to be equipped with video-on-demand, interactive programming guides with video and multiple picture-in-picture capabilities, the companies said. With the news, Telecom Italia joins Bell Canada, Reliance Infocomm Ltd., SBC Communications Inc. and Swisscom/Bluewin, which are also working with the Microsoft IPTV platform.
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