Okay – so each day there seems to be a shake up out there and the shock waves are getting more frequent. Variety reported today that France’s Iliad who won Gallic (what a cool name!) broadband TV operator Free, Europe’s biggest IPTV operator, will pull down a syndicated loan for around Euros 1 billion ($1.6 billion), mostly to buy Alice, Italia Telecom’s rival Internet TV player in France. Did you follow that? Essentially this pretty much makes France the world’s biggest broadband TV market.
Now, this is on the heels of PCCW‘S announcement that they will now offer out of the box IPTV – they feel they have been so successful at it that they will just package up what they know (and got from others) and just push that right into the market.
The winds of change are coming – there is a storm coming and in this case, survival may not be about anything that anyone can predict.
