China Digital TV steams ahead
Encryption specialists China Digital TV saw a huge rise in its NYSE share price at the end of last week. Indeed, on March 20th the price rose 9.7 per cent in the single session, and even after a modest...
View ArticleTurk Telekom still wants Digiturk
Türk Telekom is still reportedly interested in digital pay-TV operator Digiturk. Back in July last year Türk Telekom submitted a non-binding offer to buy a 53 per cent stake of Digiturk, one of 12...
View ArticleAT&T: Hastings’ net neutrality proposition “arrogant”
Jim Cicconi, senior executive vice president-external and legislative affairs at US telco AT&T, has responded to the blog posted by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings in which he urged regulators and...
View ArticleSpain: Vodafone launches FTTH service
Vodafone Spain has officially launched its FTTH service throughout Spain priced between €54 and €90 per month. The 100 Mbps download and 10 Mbps upload service will be available from April 1st in...
View ArticleComcast and Apple in streaming deal?
Apple is in talks with Comcast about a deal for a streaming-television service that would use an Apple device and express treatment on Comcast’s network to ensure QoE, according to US reports. The...
View ArticleComcast and TWC rank low with consumers
Merger partners Comcast and Time Warner Cable are two of America’s least favourite cable companies, according to a survey from Consumer Reports. The companies were near the bottom of the magazine’s...
View ArticleAnalysts: Comcast-Apple ‘No big deal’
Following reports that Apple is in talks with Comcast about teaming up for a set-top box service that would allow users to stream live and on demand TV from the cloud, analysts at Barclays Capital have...
View ArticleN America to add 5m pay-TV subs
Despite recent findings suggesting the US multichannel segment posted its first full-year decline in subscriptions for 2013, and amidst continued talk about cord-cutting, a new report from Digital TV...
View ArticleBT leads pay-TV and broadband complaints
Media regulator Ofcom has published the volumes of complaints made to them against the major providers of telecoms and pay-TV services between October and December 2013. Overall, the total volume of...
View ArticleDutch digital connections now 86 %
The number of digital TV connections in the Netherlands grew one percent during the fourth quarter of 2013 to 6.66 million, according to Telecompaper’s quarterly report on the Dutch TV market. The...
View ArticleCharter files against Comcast/TWC merger
Charter Communications, the disappointed bidder for TWC, has filed legal documents contesting the proposed merger between Time Warner Cable and Comcast claiming that the deal has been subject to a...
View ArticleECJ: ISPs may block pirates
The European Court of Justice has ruled that ISPs in Europe can legally block piracy sites illegally distributing copyright material. The Court was ruling on a case from June 2012 before the Austrian...
View ArticleComcast: Hasting’s ‘neutrality’ is hogwash
Comcast executive VP David Cohen says that Netflix CEO Reed Hasting’s criticisms of the two companies peering deal are “essentially hogwash.” Speaking on C-SPAN Cohen said he truth is that Netflix was...
View ArticleAT&T, Cisco, GE, IBM, Intel form IIC
AT&T, Cisco, GE, IBM and Intel have confirmed the formation of the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), an open membership group focused on breaking down the barriers of technology silos to...
View ArticleOfcom announces 2014 UK priorities
Ofcom has published its 2014/15 Annual Plan, confirming its strategy and work programme for the next financial year. This work is designed to build on some significant developments in the UK’s...
View ArticleAkamai accelerates content availability with Aspera
Akamai Technologies, a provider of cloud services for delivering, optimising and securing online content and business applications, and Aspera, an IBM company and creators of next-generation software...
View ArticleMPs: ‘BT gifted rural broadband monopoly’
The UK Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee has accused the government of failing to deliver meaningful competition in the procurement of its £1.2 billion (€1.4bn) rural broadband programme designed...
View ArticleKPMG: Surge in M&A no surprise
David Elms, KPMG’s Head of Media, has commented on the back of figures showing that the value of deals in the TMT sector during the first quarter of 2014 has reached its highest level since 2006:...
View ArticleGoogle Chromecast selling well
Reports from European retailers show that Google’s streaming stick has been selling well since it launched two weeks ago. Some say that the device has generated demand that compares to Apple’s iPad....
View ArticleComms groups: ‘Beware anti-innovation legislation’
A grouping of electronic communications industry trade bodies has added its voice to the debate on the proposed European Connected Continent Regulation. The coalition, comprising Cable Europe (the...
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