Will Video Be the First Major 'Out of Region' Service for Consumers? - Next-Gen Service Provider

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Featured Articles » MACH Helps M2M Service Providers Reduce Fraud Losses » Bulgarian Service Provider Gains Significant Market Share with Sangoma's Gateway Solution » Channel Cloud Solutions Provider LevelCloud Announces Growing Network of MSPs » The Time to Embrace VoLTE is Now!   Sponsored By: Panasonic SIP Corded and Cordless Phone Systems Thanks to Panasonic, there are now a variety of SIP phone options designed specifically to meet the needs of small and mid-sized businesses. Customers can choose from cordless and and corded lineups, the latter of which just added its newest model, the KX-UT670, Panasonic's Smart Desk Phone. Panasonic is making a big splash in the SIP market. Last year, Panasonic's SIP UT Series was named Best-of-Show in the Open Source Category at ITEXPO West 2011. Introducing Panasonic's SIP phones - the perfect communications tool for businesses or home offices.http://sip-phones.tmcnet.com/   Top Stories » Opengear's Out-of-Band Management Solutions Cater to MSPs » UNSi Acquires IPNetZone » Managed Network Services Can Save Medical Practices Dollars and Headaches » Data Center Services Provider NGD Weighs in on Third Largest Data Center in Asia   From The Expert Corner February 21, 2012 Will Video Be the First Major 'Out of Region' Service for Consumers? By Gary Kim, Contributing Editor Analysts at Yankee Group believe U.S. video entertainment providers are about to begin a major wave of “over the top” services that break out of the traditionally geography-based entertainment video business. If you think about it, local telcos have been going "out of region" for voice and data services sold to business customers for some time.  Cloud-based app and service providers sometimes operate within self-defined territories as well, but for business reasons, not regulatory reasons. So the issue is whether over the top video entertainment might be the first major product sold out of region by some "local" telcos, specifically aimed at consumers, rather than business customers. As you might expect, the most aggressive moves will come from upstarts, albeit in many cases “upstarts” who are market leaders in related businesses. Verizon (News - Alert), for example, recently announced it would launch a nationwide streaming service in partnership with Coinstar, which owns the Redbox DVD rental kiosk business... Read More   Featured Video Interview with Conexiant   TMCnet Free Premium Content » Mitigating Risk in your Managed Services or Cloud Practice » Using Group Policy to Manage Administrator Rights    Latest Blogs » Telecom Tidbits on Presidents Day » How to set your Continent on Fire, Listen to Europe   Featured Channels » IVR Service Provider » MSP News - MSP » NGN Solutions   Webinars Download One of Our Webinars Today to learn about new opportunities to enhance your business. http://www.tmcnet.com/webinar/   Contact Us   Company Directory    |    All Editors' Info   Become a TMCnet Columnist! Become a TMCnet columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TMCnet Web site and this newsletter. Contact TMCnet Group Editorial Director, Erik Linask, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.

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