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May 1, 2008

Sezmi offers an option to cable and satellite TV

  • It lets phone companies and local TV broadcasters make an end run around satellite and cable, and is about half the price for consumers.
    • By PETER SVENSSON
    AP Technology Writer

    NEW YORK — A startup is betting that people are tired enough of their cable and satellite bills to take a look at an alternative pay TV system that combines a number of different technologies to deliver programming.

    Silicon Valley-based Sezmi Corp. is revealing a system today that amounts to a way for phone companies and local TV broadcasters to team up for an end run around satellite and cable. Technical trials are starting shortly, with full-blown commercial trials in some markets, yet unnamed, later this year.


     
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