IPTV conferences used to feature announcements of the enormity of tier 1 telco players changing their TV strategy with alarming regularity, but this week in the run up to the IPTV World Forum, one of the largest new deals is a competitive middleware swap out for Dreampark at tiny Alcom in Finland. When we spoke to Alcom back in 2005 it provided TV to just 10,000 homes in the Aland Islands across the West Coast of Finland and because it began life without a conditional access system, it had just retrofitted the Latens system in order to gain approval to receive Hollywood movies on its VoD service. The region is ‘culturally Swedish’ but belongs to Finland, so it imports Swedish…