AT&T U-verse wins again for most innovative video service

ORLANDO, Florida, November 12 - TelcoTV 2009, the premier meeting place for the convergence of the
entertainment and communications markets, has named the winners of the 2009
TelcoTV Vision Awards. For the second year in a row, AT&T won the Service
Provider's Innovation Award, this year winning for its U-verse TV Multiview
Interactive TV application, which lets customers watch up to four channels at
one time. AT&T claims it's a faster way to view TV programming lineups than
channel surfing.

"This year's TelcoTV Vision Awards amply demonstrate that creativity and
innovation are still driving the service provider video market," said Joe
Braue, Senior Vice President and Group Director for Light Reading, which
produces the TelcoTV conference and exhibition. "Our knowledgeable judging
panel of service providers, journalists, and analysts has indicated that
these winners are the most important video products for carriers to check out
and evaluate in the coming year." 

    The other winners by category were:

    - Innovation in Broadband Access Networks: Zeugma Systems for their
      SmartBoost
      Zeugma's SmartBoost enables communications service providers to allow
      their subscribers the ability to instantly self-provision temporary
      bandwidth increases for computers, TVs, and smart phones.

    - Innovation in Conditional Access: Nagravision for their NAGRA Media
      ACCESS ELK conditional access system
      The NAGRA Media ACCESS ELK conditional access system (Embedded Link
      CAS) is a security platform designed to protect live video content over
      "always on" managed IP networks.

    - Innovation in Customer Premises Equipment: Ericsson for their Connected
      Home Gateway
      The Ericsson Connected Home Gateway provides a secure connection
      between consumers' digital home networks and the telecommunications
      network, and a single point of entry for IPTV and communication
      services, such as multimedia telephony.

    - Innovation in Encoding: RGB Networks for their Video Multiprocessing
      Gateway
      RGB's Video Multiprocessing Gateway (VMG) combines multiple video
      processing functions with the ability to process more than 1,000 video
      streams simultaneously.

    - Innovation in Middleware: Nokia Siemens Networks for their
      Interactivity Markup Language (IML) Framework
      The IML framework is an open platform comprising an XML toolbox for
      applications development, a rendering engine in the NSN IPTV middleware
      client running on the set-top box, and enhanced metadata and
      interactivity billing support.

    - Innovation in Test & Measurement: Mixed Signals for their Sentry
      product
      Sentry is a comprehensive, real-time digital content monitoring
      solution that gives video service providers visibility into network
      anomalies at the IP and MPEG layers to quickly identify and repair
      errors that degrade video/audio quality.

The 2009 TelcoTV Vision Awards winners were announced before an audience
of service providers, analysts, and technology and business press at TelcoTV
on Wednesday, November 11, at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando,
Fla., immediately following the Heavy Reading consumer research presentation
"Are Consumers Tuning In to Telco TV?"

About TelcoTV 2009

TelcoTV provides a comprehensive overview of the changing telecom video
landscape, with presentations delivering meaningful insight into, and
analysis of, the evolving world of entertainment convergence, plus more than
125 exhibitors showcasing the latest solutions and products for the IPTV and
video markets. It is a joint production of Light Reading, a division of
TechWeb, and the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association (NTCA).
This year's event is held November 10-12, 2009, at the Orange County
Convention Center, Orlando, Fla. For further details visit:
www.TelcoTVonline.com.

About Light Reading

Founded in 2000, Light Reading (www.lightreading.com) is the leading
online media, research, and focused event company serving the US$3 trillion
worldwide communications market. Lightreading.com is the ultimate source for
technology and financial analysis of the communications industry, leading the
media sector in terms of traffic, content, and reputation.

Light Reading's research arms, Heavy Reading and Pyramid Research,
provide the most comprehensive communications research, market data, and
technology analysis in close to 100 markets around the world. Light Reading
produces almost 20 targeted communications events including TelcoTV, Ethernet
Expo New York and Ethernet Expo London, The Tower Summit@CTIA, and Optical
Expo, as well as focused one-day events tailored for cable, mobile, and
wireline executives. Light Reading was acquired by United Business Media in
August 2005, and operates as a unit of TechWeb.

About TechWeb

TechWeb (www.techweb.com/aboutus) the global leader in business
technology media, is an innovative business focused on serving the needs of
technology decision-makers and marketers worldwide. TechWeb produces the most
respected and consumed media brands in the business technology market. Today,
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The Financial Technology Network; and the market leading, award-winning
InformationWeek, TechNet Magazine, MSDN Magazine, Wall Street & Technology
magazines. TechWeb also provides end-to-end services ranging from
next-generation performance marketing, integrated media, research, and
analyst services. TechWeb is a division of United Business Media, a global
provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a
market capitalization of more than US$2.5 billion.

*13.3 million business decision-makers: based on number of monthly
connections

About United Business Media Ltd.

UBM (UBM.L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information
distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the development and monetisation
of B2B communities and markets. UBM's businesses inform markets and serve
professional commercial communities - from doctors to game developers, from
journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists - with integrated
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About NTCA

The National Telecommunications Cooperative Association is the premier
association representing more than 580 locally owned and managed
telecommunications cooperatives and commercial companies throughout rural
America. NTCA provides its members with legislative, regulatory, and industry
representation; meetings; publications and educational programs; and an array
of employee benefit programs. Visit us at www.ntca.org. 

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Cathi Lane of The Zonic Group, +1-831-480-2312, +1-818-519-8869, clane at zonicgroup.com, for TechWeb