German regional operator M-net has announced this week that its newly launched IPTV platform, M-net TVplus, is based on the IPTV solution from Swiss internet TV provider and B2B technology vendor Zattoo, as well as choosing a set top OS from German cloud TV specialist ABox42. Faultline has repeatedly mentioned Zattoo over the past several months, as the company seems to announce a new deal every few weeks, mainly bagging new content deals to bulk up its offering. While Zattoo’s own live and VoD offerings are available in Germany, the service isn’t a direct competitor of M-net TVplus, but rather acts as a complementary service. The TVplus platform, hosted and managed by Zattoo from the head end to the apps,…