Motorola, a $31 billion sales level provider of mobility products and solutions across broadband, embedded systems and wireless networks, announced that Toronto Stock Exchange-listed Manitoba Telecom Services,

1. Serving residential and business customers in the Canadian province of Manitoba with a suite of wireline voice, data, wireless and TV services via a broadband fibre optic network spanning more than 24,300 km, and providing international connections through strategic partnerships and interconnection agreements with other international service providers.

2. Which in January 2003 launched MTS TV (TV service through a telephone line) for the residential customers of Winnipeg and in October 2003 also launched a DSL and MTS TV bundled service for customers.

3. Following the granting of a video-on-demand (VOD) license by CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission), having launched its VOD service in Winnipeg in June 2005.

4. A Motorola video-over-DSL customer since 2003, using Motorola's multi-service access platform to support the delivery in Winnipeg of advanced voice, video and data services such as multi-stream digital television, broadband Internet and integrated on-screen telephony.

Has become the largest single video-over-DSL deployment in North America, having signed the 50,000th customer to its MTS TV service in November 2005.

MTS TV, featuring more than 200 digital television channels, VOD, interactive services, music, and channel packaging, currently reaches more than 87% of Winnipeg, exceeding the MTS goal of covering 85% of the city by the end of 2005.

Motorola said its end-to-end multi-service access solutions are assisting in the delivery by telecommunication service providers of nearly a million streams of standards-based digital video services to subscribers throughout North America.