Research: US telcos well-placed to offer digital lifestyle packages
As the popularity of Internet entertainment services grows among consumers, digital lifestyle providers face customer retention challenges and seek to extend bundled service offerings, according to the...
View ArticleKOMNEXX delivers 1Gbit Internet access to rural North East Germany with PBN’s...
Pacific Broadband Networks (PBN) announces that KOMNEXX started to roll out its 1Gbit Internet access service with PBN’s FTTx solution. KOMNEXX is a member of Ruhe Group. The Ruhe Group concentrates...
View ArticleTiVo for Com Hem
Com Hem has confirmed it will launch TiVo this year. Swedish cable operator Com Hem had sales of SEK1.108 billion (€127.3 million) in Q2, down on SEK1.148 billion a year earlier. EBITDA amounted to...
View Article70% of US homes have broadband
Some 70 per cent of American adults ages 18 and older have a high-speed broadband connection at home as of May 2013, according to a nationally representative survey by the Pew Research Center’s...
View ArticleZon-Optimus merger green light
Portugal’s Competition Authority has issued a final decision, stating its agreement to the merger between triple-play provider Zon Multimedia and mobile telephony operator Optimus. The decision...
View ArticleEU OKs RTVE tax
The European Court of Justice has denied the European Commission’s appeal against the Spanish public broadcaster tax, one month after it approved the same model in France. Telco companies will have to...
View ArticleMexico pay-TV up 17%
Mexico’s pay-TV is on a roll, and is growing by some 16.9 per cent annually, according to regulator Cofetel. At June 30th Cofetel says that pay-TV had exceeded 14 million subscribers. DTH continues to...
View ArticleSky adds Wi-Fi to PVRs
BSkyB has revealed that its new Sky+HD and Sky+HD 2TB boxes are both now available with built-in Wi-Fi for the first time. The new Sky+HD and Sky+HD 2TB personal video recorders (PVR) connect...
View ArticleCCAP impacting cable broadband market
Market research firm Infonetics Research released its 2nd quarter 2013 CMTS and Edge QAM Hardware and Subscribers report, which tracks cable broadband equipment and subscribers. “Once again, the cable...
View ArticleNumericable 216,000 on LaBox
French cable operator Numericable has signed 216,000 subscribers to its LaBox Fibre and has passed 700,000 customers with fibre out of 1.65 million customers, a 40 per cent penetration. Broadband...
View ArticleMedia conglomerates focus on TV
SNL Kagan has analysed the segment revenues of the six largest media conglomerates and how they are changing, concluding that their focus is shifting more toward TV and away from publishing. News Corp...
View ArticleLiberty jumps on Voda bid guess
Liberty Global shares jumped last night on speculation that Vodafone could use cash from its exit from the Verizon Wireless bid for the cable MSO. Liberty shares rose 4 per cent in late trading when...
View ArticleUK ISPs asked to record piracy data
UK broadband providers are being asked to create a database of customers illegally downloading music, films and books, which could be used to disconnect or prosecute persistent offenders. BT, Virgin...
View ArticleAnalyst: BT can’t harm Sky
Investment specialist Morningstar did not pull any punches in a note to clients on August 30th, saying that the UK market has overreacted in its somewhat negative view of BSkyB over the launch of the...
View ArticleCBS, TWC reach content carriage agreement
The long-running and sometime retransmission dispute between CBS and Time Warner Cable has ended with the announcement that, together with Bright House Networks, they had reached an agreement for...
View ArticleSpain to approve new telco law
The Spanish government is set to approve a new telecom law (Ley General de Telecomunicaciones) by mid September with the aim of clarifying the telco sector, simplifying the legislation and paving the...
View ArticleVoda treasure opens bid window
Here in the UK we have just closed the football transfer window. This is an artificial period of time in which all buying and selling of players has to take place. The idea is to remove the...
View ArticleADB unveils hybrid multi-screen solution
ADB has unveiled ADB Multi-Screen, a software suite that combines broadcast and broadband delivery with home network content redistribution for an enhanced user experience across multiple screens at...
View ArticleTV advertising still dominates
More than half (52 per cent) of the UK public regard TV ads as the advertising format with the most impact, according to a report to by Deloitte. However, the proportion of respondents ranking TV among...
View ArticleSNL Kagan: US pay-TV market in subs doldrums
According to the most recent report from media research specialist SNL Kagan, there is no spoiler alert needed for the second-quarter US multichannel subscriber movement. The seasonally soft period...
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