KT and Akamai expand partnership
KT, the Koreaan telco, and cloud infrastructure services provider Akamai Technologies, have confirmed they will expand their strategic partnership. KT has agreed to leverage technology from Akamai to...
View ArticleFormer adviser sues Virgin Media for $100m
UK cable operator Virgin Media has been hit with a $100 million lawsuit in a New Jersey, US court. The plaintiff is investment manager W R Huff Asset Management, and they are alleging that they...
View ArticleLiberty Global takes Ziggo stake
Continuing its transatlantic buying spree, following its takeover of Virgin Media in the UK and acquisition of a 27.3 per cent stake in Charter Communications in the US, broadband cable MSO Liberty...
View ArticleCable crushes network TV
A big weekend series of top-rated cable shows managed to put US network TV firmly in its place as the finale of The Walking Dead, plus the debut Season 3 opening episode of Game of Thrones as well as...
View ArticleSurvey: Service bundling points to big savings
According to a report from US consumer research body the Consumer Reports National Research Center, with carriers offering introductory discounts as much as half off, it’s little wonder why three...
View ArticleWeb access from STBs, TVs increases
According to findings from adaptive web development software solutions specialist Netbiscuits, the web is changing so rapidly that many organisations are still unprepared for the future of consumer...
View ArticleIndia’s Phase 2 cities switch off – sort of
Last Saturday at midnight (March 30) ought to have seen a large cluster of major Indian cities switch off their analogue TV signals. 36 towns and cities were affected. Unfortunately, not all went to...
View ArticleYouView’s Dunstone: BT fibre cost should be capped
The UK government should help open up access to the national fibre network being rolled out by BT, says Sir Charles Dunstone, chairman of telecoms group TalkTalk and YouView. Dunstone told the FT that...
View ArticleAustin is second Google wired city
Google has announced that Austin, Texas, will be its next fibre city, with the first homes connected to the 1Gbps service by mid-2014. Google has been offering gigabit internet and a 200-channel TV...
View ArticleCEA opposes proposed STB regulation
US consumer electronics trade body the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has voiced its opposition to the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding a test procedure for...
View ArticleHighfield presses on with online TV
Ashley Highfield CEO of beleaguered UK local newspaper group Johnston Press is pushing ahead with plans to launch a series of online TV stations for its newspaper titles. Speaking at a conference held...
View ArticleONO TiVo traction
Spain’s ONO has seen its TiVo offering taken up by 150,000 customers, it says. At the end of 2012 it had 100,000 TiVo customers, 11% of its TV user base. The service is available across its entire...
View ArticleEC clears Liberty’s Virgin Media acquisition
As revealed by advanced-television.com, the European Commission has cleared under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed acquisition of UK quad-play operator Virgin Media in the US, by cable MSO Liberty...
View ArticleDISH proposes $22.5bn Sprint Nextel merger
DISH Network Corporation has submitted a merger proposal to the Board of Directors of US telco Sprint Nextel Corporation for a total cash and stock consideration of $25.5 billion. According to DISH,...
View ArticleTeleves at800 filters
Televes UK has announced it is one of the companies who will supply high quality RF filters to at800 to help mitigate potential interference to terrestrial digital TV reception from 4G mobile phone...
View ArticleMost online Europeans own 2+ connected devices
Almost 75 per cent of European adults access the Internet regularly, and more than half of them own two or more connected devices, according to Forrester’s report on the state of consumers and...
View ArticleFibre helps boost IPTV
Latest broadband and IPTV figures published by the Broadband Forum show a significant surge in superfast broadband, with fibre, particularly FTTx/VDSL2 hybrid deployments, playing a key role in driving...
View ArticleLGI bid for Kabel Deutschland?
Liberty Global Inc is preparing a takeover bid for Germany’s Kabel Deutschland claims the German business magazine Manager in a trail for an exclusive to be published on Friday. The journal says...
View ArticleHome nets determine success of connected home
As the use of multiple connected devices in the home continues to increase year over year, home networks provide the foundation to connect mobile devices, appliances and systems in the home, according...
View ArticleTelefonica pulls out of Hispasat
Spain’s dominant telco Telefonica has pulled out of satellite company Hispasat by selling its remaining stake to Eutelsat in a deal estimated at €56 million in cash. Earlier this year Telefonica...
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