How many commercial customers are now receiving telco TV services running over the Microsoft TV platform?
EG: In terms of telco, the only one commercially deployed so far is Verizon [Communications Inc.]. And AT&T and Swisscom will both start between now and early ’06. I don’t believe [Verizon] has announced any numbers yet. You can assume they’re relatively small numbers. XC: How many customers should be receiving telco TV services running over the Microsoft TV platform at about this time in 2006? EG: Of course it’s totally dependent on our customer deployment timelines, but by then we’ll have all the customers we talked about and probably at least a couple of our trial customers in commercial deployment mode as well. So we’ll be in the, I would expect, tens of thousands of deployed consumers and then scaling from there. This kind of technology will roll out very much in a similar fashion to the way DSL rolled out or cable modem or digital cable rolled out. It’s not like there’s one magic day where the service provider flips the switch and suddenly 2 million people get the service. They’l
