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Greek incumbent telco OTE has selected Ericsson to supply, implement and integrate an IPTV system, under a contract that also involves business consultancy work. The Swedish vendor will deploy headend systems from Tandberg Television, part of the Ericsson group, a middleware application, content distribution platform and a customised consumer portal. [...]

With Time Warner spinning off its Time Warner Cable unit, the media giant now positions itself mostly as a content company. Is there still growth in those businesses--and are there possible acquisitions in its near future? CEO Jeff Bewkes says yes to growth, but hedges on buying new nets.[...]

German telco Versatel is mulling an alliance with rivals freenet, United Internet and Telefonica to combat Deutsche Telekom, reports Financial Times Deutschland, quoting Versatel’s CEO. ‘This would create a counterbalance to [Deutsche] Telekom and Vodafone-Arcor,’ Peter Knauer told the newspaper, adding that such an alliance was something to think about [...]

The US cable operator Charter Communications has revealed that its chairman, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, has received informal inquiries about a potential deal involving an unnamed investor. A regulatory filing by Charter says that ‘various parties’ have expressed an informal interest in some form of deal, though it added that [...]