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Industry Perspectives: Delivering High-Quality Video Service Over DSL Networks
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Fiber optics isn’t the only solution available to deliver video and interactive digital media to the home.
Carriers around the world want to deploy video over DSL to solve two of their most pressing problems—stalled revenue growth and competition from cable, satellite, and mobile operators. The traditional fixed-line phone business is saturated; most households in the U.S. and Europe are connected to the voice network, in many cases with multiple lines. Yet the number of lines in use is declining in the U.S. and in parts of Europe such as the Benelux Economic Union (Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg), as subscribers switch to mobile providers. And they are switching in droves. In the third quarter of 2004, the number of mobile subscribers in Europe was expected to surpass the number of fixed-line subscribers in 2003, according to a report by Ovum. Cable and satellite operators now also offer voice over Internet services that are gaining in popularity.