Still no date for Bell's IPTV; company remains faithful to FTTN

MONTREAL – Both CEO Michael Sabia and COO George Cope remained true to their answers throughout 2006 when it comes to Bell Canada's network capacity and the launch of IPTV. In short, despite some evidence to the contrary (like Verizon's $20 billion spend on fibre to the home), the company believes its fibre to the node network upgrade strategy will serve it just fine when it launches IPTV. And when will that be? Could be next week. Could be next year. "We continue to believe that (FTTN) is the right way to go," said Sabia in a conference call with...