IPTV threat minimal, at least for now

According to the article Looking in the Eye of the IPTV Threat, author Michael Gibb says the threat of IPTV is not significant currently. Although IPTV will eventually "shake up" the cable industry, cable executives still have time to figure out how to combat the threat. As it stands now, cable providers can offer all the same services IPTV can offer with just some simple changes to the cable providers' infrastructure. But as time goes by, writes Gibb, IPTV will evolve into a real threat if the telecommunication companies can successfully get through technical problems and franchising issues.