Cable / Telecom News

Bell’s Crull still mum on IPTV launch

TORONTO – While Bell Canada announced it was the first TV distributor to pass the 100-HD channels mark Monday, the company was still mum on its most anticipated video move – the launch of its terrestrial IPTV platform.Inside Bell TV’s Scarsdale Rd. HQ in Toronto sits the near decade-old network operations centre for its satellite (formerly ExpressVu) TV service. It’s well-worn and features numerous tiny SD monitors which show a number of the channels available to its 1.8 million satellite customers. They’re displaying MPEG-2 SD digital video for the most part, some with serious color display issues (the product of...