No US Company Listed in the World’s Ten Largest IPTV Providers

Notwithstanding the level of development and awareness of IPTV in the US, it is quite surprising to know that none of the US based IPTV companies is able to make it to the first ten ranking among the world's largest provider of the service.

The largest company in the US is AT&T with is product branded U-Verse has not yet passed attained this ranking with subscribers base of about 170,000 but hope to make it with the current trend of subscription to their service. The service which is a fiber/coaxial hybrid disqualified Verizon from being listed.

Interestingly, seven countries of the Europe made it to the top ten and three of them are French companies. On top of the list is Iliad which offers the its French customers a DSL/IPTV/VoIP triple play bundle for only $45 a month and is expected to start offering fiber lines for the same price as that of DSL to its customers.

Much of France's success (from the consumer point of view) is attributed to local loop unbundling, an idea they picked up from us shortly before we abandoned the idea. A recent study stated that, on average, a U.S. family of four will pay $140 per month for the triple play, compared to $80 in Germany, $54 in France, and $50 in the UK.