Record cable subs boost TiVo
A record 313,000 cable MSO subscriptions added in the fourth quarter helped advanced television entertainment market specialist TiVo report its best-ever full-year Service and Technology revenues....
View ArticleLast 5% UK rural broadband could be satellite
The Managing Director of UK satellite Internet Service Provider Satellite Internet is calling local councils to spend some of the latest tranche of rural broadband funding from central government on...
View ArticleWi-Fi embedded in 57% of all CE devices
Global shipments for Wi-Fi enabled Consumer Electronics devices grew 19 per cent year-over-year to reach 1.9 billion units in 2013 according to research from Strategy Analytics. Over 4 billion Wi-Fi...
View Article1 in 4 European Internet users experience content blocking
Twenty-four per cent of European Internet users say they are prevented by their providers from watching videos, listening music or using other applications of their choice, according to a new...
View ArticleJ-COM and Japan Cablenet merge
Japan’s J-COM (Jupiter Communications) is merging with Japan Cablenet (JCN), and thus bringing together the largest and second-largest cable operators under one roof. The merger will happen on April...
View ArticleNo more subsidy for BT broadband
BT should not be given any more taxpayer money to roll out rural broadband until it is clarifies how it is spending the £1.2 billion (€1.4bn) already awarded to it, says the Public Accounts Committee....
View ArticleVirgin launches “Britain’s fastest broadband”
Virgin Media has unleashed broadband speeds that it claims are 19 times faster than regular broadband. The new 152Mb top speed becomes the fastest widely available connection in the UK. Virgin Media...
View ArticleAustralia: FreeviewPlus features unveiled
Following the announcement November 2013 that it would be launching a hybrid broadcast broadband service, Australian digital terrestrial platform Freeview has unveiled the key features of its...
View ArticleEBU unhappy with Swedish TV spectrum announcement
The EBU has expressed serious concern at a Swedish government decision to reallocate the 700 MHz spectrum band to “other forms of use” from 2017, since such a fast switchover will jeopardise the...
View ArticleIndia’s entertainment sector booms
India’s media and entertainment sector is growing at an explosive rate. According to the latest Ficci/KPMG study, the sector last year grew 12 per cent to reach R920 billion, and this despite a...
View ArticleNetflix CFO: Comcast deal was essential
Netflix had to make its new deal to pay Comcast for improved service over its broadband lines because “there were some choke points around peak usage times,” CFO David Wells told the Morgan Stanley...
View ArticleTelecom Italia narrows losses
Telecom Italia Media has posted a narrower net loss of €132 million in 2013 after the sale of two loss-making television channels. The company, which had posted a loss of 241 million euros in 2012,...
View ArticleRecord year for GPON in China
Market research firm Infonetics Research has released vendor market share and preliminary analysis from its 4th quarter 2013 and year-end PON, FTTH, and DSL Aggregation Equipment and Subscribers...
View ArticleBouygues bids for SFR
French construction and telecommunications group Bouygues, has offered €10.5 billion cash for Vivendi’s SFR unit, setting up a bidding war with billionaire Patrick Drahi’s Altice group and potentially...
View Article75% of British homes can get superfast broadband
Three out of every four homes in Britain can now get fixed broadband services at superfast speeds if they choose. Contrary to frequent jibes that the UK is backward in developing next-generation...
View ArticleCable top-line growth up 5.9%
Cable investments in high-speed broadband connections and new service platforms drove top-line revenues across Europe up 5.9 per cent to €21.9 billion in 2013, according to new IHS statistics released...
View ArticleSpain: Orange eyes Jazztel
Whilst ONO decides to accept or not Vodafone’s purchase bid of around €7 billion, a new consolidation move is envisaged in the Spanish telco market. France’s biggest telco company and Spain’s third...
View ArticleCable Europe: “2013 a landmark year”
According to Caroline van Weede, Managing Director of Cable Europe, 2013 was a landmark year for the broadband cable industry in Europe as the number of digital subscribers overtook analogue...
View ArticleNumericable won’t increase bid for SFR
Patrick Drahi, the controlling shareholder of French cable operator Numericable Group, has said he will not be increasing his bid for Vivendi’s SFR. In an interview with French daily Les Echos, Drahi...
View ArticleA third of TV viewers overwhelmed by number of channels
Digitalsmiths, a wholly-owned subsidiary of TiVo, has published the results of its Q4 2014 Video Trends Report, which found that almost one-third (30.9 per cent) of consumers surveyed are overwhelmed...
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