Telephone companies haven't given up on offering video services to consumers, despite being dissapointed with technology like VDSL and the cost of network upgrades. It's been a dream for quite some time, made somewhat more urgent lately as cable takes the lead in the residential broadband race by a fairly wide margin. Technologies like VDSL, once considered a likely video conduit, is now considered too expensive to deploy by many telcos. As a result the baby bells have been toying with the idea of new satellite partnerships. But some telcos, like Manitoba Telecom in Canada, are using new technology to bring Video to Winnipeg. The company recently spent $210 million to bring television to Winnipeg residents.