Amino first deal for FUSION IoT solution
Amino, a specialist in hybrid TV and cloud solutions, has secured a first contract win for its “Internet of Things” (IoT) FUSION cloud-based home management solution with North American...
View ArticleVerizon joins Conviva QoE initiative
Conviva, a specialist in OTT experience management, has announced Verizon Digital Media Services as a launch partner for Conviva’s Quality of Experience (QoE) Ecosystem initiative. This gives Verizon...
View ArticleItalian media to grow to €36bn by 2020
The media and entertainment industry in Italy will be worth €36 billion BY 2020, up from €29.6 billion in 2014 (+4 per cent), according to the PwC Entertainment & Media Outlook 2016-2020....
View ArticleSpain: FTTH grows at expense of DSL, HFC
FTTH is growing very fast in Spain with 110,219 new lines in July, according to the latest figures from the CNMC. By contrast, DSL lost 101,000 lines and HFC cable over 8,000 lines. Over the last 12...
View ArticleNetflix blasts broadband data caps
Netflix has expressed its anger towards ISPS who impose broadband data caps on customers. In a complaint to the US media regulator FCC, the streaming giant condemned such restrictions, saying, “Data...
View Article53% of Europeans stream TV
A Eurobarometer survey shows that a majority of Europeans, aged 15 to 45, use the Internet at least once a week to read the latest news (72 per cent), listen to music (63 per cent) and watch films or...
View ArticleStreaming Video Alliance, CTA in QoE initiative
The Streaming Video Alliance (The Alliance), an industry forum comprised of leading companies from the online video ecosystem, and the Consumer Technology Association (CTA, are to collaborate to...
View ArticleNokia, DT, Munich uni achieve 1Tb per sec speeds
Nokia Bell Labs, Deutsche Telekom T-Labs and the Technical University of Munich have achieved unprecedented transmission capacity and spectral efficiency in an optical communications field trial with a...
View ArticleUS home broadband usage increasing
Today’s US consumers expect a world in which they always have high-speed access to anything they want, whether it be music, video, or basic information reports iGR, a market strategy consultancy....
View ArticleNearly half global population now online
India has overtaken the US to become the world’s second largest Internet market, with 333 million users, trailing China’s 721 million. But a new report from the UN Broadband Commission for Sustainable...
View ArticleNCTA drops cable name
US broadband industry trade body the NCTA – formerly the National Cable & Telecommunications Association – is rebranding itself as NCTA – The Internet & Television Association, which NCTA...
View ArticleConviva partners with Adobe for QoE metrics
OTT experience management specialist Conviva has announced Adobe as a launch partner for Conviva’s QoE Ecosystem initiative. According to the company, by bringing all metrics together into the same...
View ArticleSpain’s Cellnex enters French broadband market
Cellnex Telecom, a subsidiary of the Spanish communications infrastructure company Abertis, has broken into the French telco market following its acquisition 230 telco towers from Bouygues Telecom. The...
View ArticleGoldman Sachs boosts DEN holding to 24.49%
Investment bank Goldman Sachs has taken an additional 6.7 per cent of Indian cable distribution DEN Networks, and in the process boosting its overall position in the cable TV giant to 24.49 per cent....
View ArticleNFL keeps US cable TV thriving
An online survey conducted by charterbundledeals.com has confirmed that online streaming and VoD websites are not yet a danger to US cable TV subscriptions, as users are largely satisfied with the...
View ArticleLatAm: Mobile Internet users up 50% by 2020
The number of people across Latin America using their mobile devices to access the Internet is set to grow by 50 per cent by the end of the decade, according to a GSMA study. It is forecast that 150...
View ArticleNielsen, Vision Critical partnership
Nielsen and Vision Critical, a cloud-based customer intelligence platform provider, have announced a strategic alliance that will enable clients to better understand their customers and build more...
View ArticleLiberty Global, CableLabs join MulteFire Alliance
Liberty Global, the international TV and broadband company, andCableLabs, an R&D lab for the global cable industry, have joined the MulteFire Alliance, an independent, diverse and international...
View Article4 companies control half of W. Europe pay-TV subs
The 73 top operators collectively accounted for 93 per cent of Western Europe’s pay-TV subscribers by end-2015, according to analyst firm Digital TV Research. Despite adding 7 million subscribers to...
View ArticleArris expands DOCSIS 3.1 portfolio
Arris International has expanded its portfolio of DOCSIS 3.1 devices – including modems, broadband gateways, and telephony gateways – to anticipate the needs of its increasingly diverse global customer...
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