Verizon,
partner in the industry’s TV Everywhere initiative, has launched a trial to bring
television programming online to FiOS TV subscribers.

Time Warner Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bewkes said, “When we first
announced the TV Everywhere initiative, we hoped others in the industry would soon
sign on to provide consumers with more on-demand television content over all platforms
including broadband. We are pleased to partner with Verizon to deliver TNT and TBS
programming on-demand and online at no additional cost to customers and to do so in
a progressive manner that builds the business for the future.”

Verizon’s trial includes content from Time Warner’s Turner networks, TNT and TBS,
and will soon include content from other providers. Trial participants will be able
to watch the programs on their personal computers or laptops – at home or away – using
any broadband connection. Using their Verizon Online user names and passwords, participating
FiOS TV customers will be able to access the online programming at the networks’ Web
sites.

“As an industry, it’s critical that we get the TV Everywhere user experience and value
proposition right,” said Strickland. “Our FiOS TV trial will enable us to integrate
feedback from our customers to help deliver a service that is consistent with the
ultimate entertainment experience that FiOS TV customers have come to expect.”

Verizon: a Track Record of Multi-Screen Leadership

Verizon has been delivering high-quality video entertainment to its FiOS and High
Speed Internet broadband customers since 2005 with online services like Starz Play,
ESPN360, Disney Connection, YES Network and NFL Game Extra. Verizon also is preparing
to launch online content from EPIX, a new cross-platform premium service from Viacom
Inc., its Paramount Pictures unit, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM) and Lionsgate.

In addition, V CAST Video from Verizon Wireless brings more than 100 full-length TV
series from leading broadcast and cable providers to wireless phones. These top-rated
and most-watched programs rotate with the television season, with episodes available
on V CAST within hours of their first airing on television. In the second quarter
of 2009, there were nearly 40 million downloads and streams of V CAST video and music.

The Verizon multi-screen experience also includes bringing online content to TV sets.
FiOS TV customers have the unique ability to use their TV screens to interact with
friends and followers on top social media sites Facebook and Twitter. Plus, FiOS TV
DVR subscribers can search and enjoy online videos from blip.tv, Dailymotion and Veoh
on their home-entertainment systems.

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Swisscom has watched its subscriber rates double for its IPTV ‘Bluewin TV’ service in the last year.
According to its reports, subscribers increased from 80,000 in 2008 to 165,000 in June of 2009, with 26,000 of the new subscribers signing up in Q2 of this year.
The company also stated that 85% of the new [...]

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Swisscom doubles IPTV viewers

Verizon’s Wireline
segment reported continued strong growth in the number of new customers of fiber-optic-based
FiOS Internet and FiOS TV services, and continued increased revenues from enterprise
strategic services. In the second quarter:

• Verizon added 303,000 net new FiOS Internet customers, a record number for the second
  consecutive quarter. By the end of the second quarter, the company had 3.1 million
  FiOS Internet customers, an increase of 56.1 percent compared with June 30, 2008.
• FiOS Internet sales penetration (sales as a percentage of potential customers) increased
  to 28.1 percent, compared with 23.5 percent at June 30, 2008. FiOS Internet was available
  for sale to 11.0 million premises by the end of the quarter.
• Verizon added 300,000 net new FiOS TV customers. The company had 2.5 million FiOS
  TV customers by the end of the quarter, an increase of 82.1 percent compared with
  June 30, 2008.
• FiOS TV sales penetration increased to 24.6 percent, compared with 19.7 percent as
  of June 30, 2008. FiOS TV service was available for sale to 10.3 million premises
  by the end of the quarter.

Over the past year, Verizon has added more than 1.1 million FiOS TV customers and
expanded the availability of FiOS “triple-play” bundles of voice, Internet and TV
services by approximately 46 percent. By the end of the second quarter, FiOS triple-play
bundles were available to 10.3 million premises of the approximately 32 million households
in Verizon’s wireline network footprint, compared with 7.0 million premises at the
end of the second quarter 2008.

Verizon’s FiOS network passed an additional 650,000 premises in the second quarter.
As of the end of the quarter, the FiOS network passed 13.8 million premises, or approximately
43 percent of households in Verizon’s wireline network footprint.

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Corpus
Christi residents now have a new choice for their television and communications services,
powered by the most advanced technology. AT&T announces the launch of AT&T
U-verse services in parts of Corpus Christi beginning Monday, June 29.

Texas was the first state where AT&T U-verse services were deployed, thanks to progressive
legislation passed in September 2005 by the Texas Legislature and signed by Gov. Rick
Perry. This legislation provides an environment that encourages new video providers,
such as AT&T, to invest in Texas to compete against the incumbent cable providers
and build the advanced broadband networks that will create jobs and fuel economic
growth.

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Corpus Christi Customers Get AT&T U-verse

AT&T has
extended Alcatel-Lucent’s contract
for end-to-end multivendor network integration for AT&T U-verse. The AT&T U-verse
portfolio brings together U-verse TV, U-verse High Speed Internet and U-verse Voice
services all delivered over AT&T’s advanced Internet Protocol network using Alcatel-Lucent’s
Triple Play Service Delivery Architecture. AT&T U-verse services are now offered in
93 markets in 19 states, with more than 1.3 million U-verse TV customers.

Under the agreement announced today, Alcatel-Lucent will continue to provide end-to-end
multivendor network integration for AT&T U-verse, including Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV
software platform.

Alcatel-Lucent’s end-to-end multivendor network systems integration includes solution
program management, third-party management, network engineering, solution testing/validation
and deployment services.

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