We have often pegged IPTV as a stepping stone to full OTT video and while Faultline Online Reporter was taking its summer break, German giant Deutsche Telekom opened up its IPTV platform Entertain TV – releasing the shackles from an advanced TV offering and setting a precedent for Europe’s operators to make similar inroads to a more open ecosystem. Deutsche Telekom has been obsessed with eliminating set top hardware for a few years now without really making many waves in streaming, while simultaneously attempting to preserve a decent ARPU with bundled packages. All this while doing little to intrigue its mobile subscriber base, of which there are 43.1 million in its native market and an additional 48.8 million elsewhere in…