Verizon announced that they have reached an agreement with Starz to carry the movie channels 13 stations over its fiber-technology network. Sources also say the company has reached agreement with at least 100 additional content providers.
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If Verizon can truly make their TV network available to three million customers by the end of this year, it will turn the cable business on its ear. One thing to really watch out for is the effect this could have on interactive TV, which seems finally to be gaining some steam within the industry after years of speculation. Creating competition in the marketplace could force both cable and phone companies to use Interactive TV features as differentiation points of their service, and would push the market forward. (It seems that in recent years, the near-monopoly held by cable TV companies has allowed them to rest on their laurels as far as interactive TV progress is concerned.)

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