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Almost two-thirds of consumers dramatically altered their spending habits as economic conditions deteriorate, and the outlook remains bleak. People are staying home more, spending less on dining, clothing, vacation travel and replacement goods. 

Slower subscriber growth and increased competition isn’t making things easier for broadband providers. But while changes in consumer spending impact entertainment outside the home, it also creates new opportunities and growth areas inside the home.

As people spend more time at home, they become more dependent on at-home services, creating new opportunities for broadband communications, entertainment delivery, customer support, diagnostic help and trouble-shooting solutions.

It’s an ideal time for provisioning, installing, configuring, monitoring and supporting the in-home network and its attached devices. Home monitoring will be a lucrative opportunity for control and security system companies.

Home system integrators can take advantage of the retrofit and remodel projects in existing homes, compensating for the decline in new home construction.

Utilities have been investing in Smart Grid technologies in an effort to lower operating costs, avoid new generation plant construction and allow the use of alternate energy sources. As the Smart Grid enables appliances and home systems to communicate and share key information with residents, business opportunities for providers increase.

Broadband technologies are perhaps felt most personally in our connected home, through enhanced security, 24/7 entertainment options, and social networking that a whole generation doesn’t remember ever living without.

Service providers are at a crossroads.

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The market is served by a variety of providers offering a range of channels and services to satisfy media hungry consumers. Where do you fit in? 

Can IPTV work? The competition keeps getting hotter:

• The list includes portal players YouTube and Joost and social networks MySpace and Facebook.
• Device manufacturers are offering their own Internet-based offerings, including NeuLion and AppleTV.
• Broadcasters  BBC and NBC are in the hunt too, going directly to the consumer with iPlayer and Hulu.
• Amazon Video On Demand and VuDu, Netflix and Blockbuster are in the process of developing a combination set-top-box and video download service.

The opportunities keep getting bigger:

• Global subscriptions to IPTV are expected to hit 19.6 million by the end of this year, up 64% from this time last year.
• 2008 IPTV revenues are expected to hit $4.5 billion.
• Over the next four years, subscriptions are expected to double again.
• Global revenue for 2012 is predicted to hit $19 billion, more than four times the projected 2008 revenues.

How much of this revenue will you get?

Come to SUPERCOMM 2009 October 21-23 and learn how to distinguish yourself from every other service provider out there.

Listen to IPTV leaders discuss how they identified what their customers wanted and how they meet these needs.