Cisco: Video to drive three-fold IP traffic increase
According to the Cisco Visual Networking Index Global Forecast and Service Adoption for 2013 to 2018, global Internet Protocol (IP) traffic will increase nearly three-fold over the next five years as a...
View ArticleiiNET urges customer action in copyright debate
Australian ISP iiNET, which has long resisted federal efforts to mandate copyright protection schemes, has called on its customers to make their voices known by writing to politicians at the heart of...
View ArticleCableLabs joins MoCA
MoCA welcomes CableLabs as its newest Contributor member. The two organisations have been working together for years as part of a technical liaison relationship. Membership of MoCA enables CableLabs...
View ArticleAstra Connect in 9,000 French schools
SES Broadband Services (SBBS) and its subsidiary Astra Connect has won a major French contract to hook up almost 9000 to a broadband service via the French ‘Connected Schools’ project. The scheme calls...
View ArticleAT&T’s DirecTV buy is a bet on ‘new Net Neutrality’
AT&T’s planned acquisition of DirecTV offers benefits in the form of a nationwide footprint for AT&T as a Video OTT and pay TV operator and ties in with the company’s already strong IPTV,...
View ArticleAT&T: ‘DirecTV merger in public interest’
AT&T has filed paperwork at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) hoping to convince regulators that the proposed $49 billion merger between...
View ArticleTelekom Malaysia joins Broadband Forum
Telekom Malaysia has become the latest major telecommunications network operator to join the Broadband Forum as the organisation continues to see a major commitment from the region’s service providers...
View ArticleGoogle to launch satellites on Virgin Galactic?
Sky News is reporting that Google is in talks to take a stake in Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space rocket venture. Recently it emerged that Google is developing plans to launch between 180...
View ArticlePay-TV operators head STB food chain
Pay-TV operators are at the top of the set-top box food chain, with hardware OEMs and semiconductor vendors both functioning in a supporting role, according to ABI Research’s Set-top Box Opportunities...
View ArticleIrdeto, Inview power CTH’s OTT and hybrid services
Thai service provider CTH Public Company Limited, media protection, multiscreen and revenue assurance solutions specialist Irdeto and digital TV software and service provider Inview have formed a...
View ArticleCable STB sales perk up in Q1
Procurement activity by North American cable operators has had a positive impact on the set-top box sector, according to market research firm Infonetics Research’s 1st quarter 2014 (1Q14) Set-Top Boxes...
View ArticleFormer Sky boss lambasts its broadband service
Tom Mockridge, formerly CEO at Sky Italia and BSkyB’s deputy chairman from 2012 to early 2013, has called Sky’s broadband offering “lousy”. Mockridge, a blunt-speaking New Zealander, is now running...
View ArticleSES: ‘Consumers are jumping into 4K’
Satellite operator SES’s new CEO, Karim Michel Sabbagh, in a major speech at the CASBAA Satellite Industry Forum in Singapore, said that despite pay-TV DTH being challenged in some markets by IP-based...
View ArticleCom Hem IPO SEK 58 per share
Swedish triple-play operator Com Hem has confirmed an offer price of SEK 58 (€6.45) per share in its initial public offering of newly issued shares. Admission to trading and listing on the NASDAQ OMX...
View ArticleViettel adds cable to IPTV offering
Responding to the need to expand its service offerings to build market share and reduce churn. Viettel, Vietnam’s largest telecom operator, is deploying the Ericsson Multi-platform Video Processing...
View Articledu plans multimedia services
The Middle East’s fastest growing telecom service provider, du, has signed a contract with Nokia to deploy its IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). With the deployment of Nokia’s IMS, du’s customers will...
View ArticleOvum: 2014 most accessible World Cup ever
This summer’s football World Cup is proving to be the most accessible in the tournament’s history, with broadcast and streaming services available on up to 5.9 billion screens globally. This is...
View ArticleCable industry calls for pan-European spectrum strategy
Speaking at the 9th Annual European Spectrum Management Conference in Brussels, Cable Europe Executive Chairman Matthias Kurth has urged participants from all sides of the spectrum debate to work...
View ArticleOregan Reports Record Revenue for 2013
Oregan Networks, a leading supplier of next-generation Pay TV solutions for Multiple Service Operators (MSOs), has delivered a record 2013 revenue, as it continued to invest into future growth through...
View ArticleNewtec for Thaicom DTH
Newtec announced today that Thaicom PLC, a leading Asian satellite operator, has installed Newtec technology (M6100 Broadcast Satellite Modulators) on the platform of Thaicom-6, enabling its satellite...
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