Com Hem free broadband upgrades
Com Hem has introduced a free upgrade to 50 Mbit/s for customers who currently have a lower broadband speed. With the upgrade, Com Hem says its minimum speed is now five times that offered by...
View ArticleOperators move security, QoS, VPN to virtual routers
Market research firm Infonetics Research released excerpts from its 2014 Routing, IP Edge, and Packet-Optical Strategies: Global Service Provider Survey, which focuses on operators’ plans for moving...
View ArticleCarriers name Cisco top router and switch vendor
Market research firm Infonetics Research has released excerpts from its annual Router and Switch Vendor Leadership: Global Service Provider Survey, which explores service providers’ perceptions of edge...
View ArticleBT price hikes are ‘football tax’
BT is set to impose a price increase of over 6 per cent on its home phone and broadband customers in a move that has already been called a “football tax” by some analysts. BT, who has 7.3 million home...
View ArticleNovember deadline for Ziggo, Liberty deal
European Union antitrust regulators will decide by November 3rd whether to clear Liberty Global’s bid for Ziggo. The European Commission unveiled the new deadline after halting its scrutiny of the deal...
View ArticleLiberty’s Ziggo buy ‘will be cleared’
Liberty Global will be given permission to take over its Dutch competitor Ziggo by the European Commission. However, the approval will be conditional on Liberty Global selling its Film 1 channel to...
View ArticleIndia revokes India MSO licence
India’s Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (MIB) has cancelled the digital transmission licence and registration of Kal Cable. The Ministry says it is because Kal Cable has failed to obtain a...
View ArticleSamsung commits to global 4K
Amazon’s 2014 original series line-up will soon be available to stream via Samsung Ultra-HD TVs with the launch of the Amazon 4K video streaming service. Samsung has confirmed that Amazon’s Ultra-HD...
View ArticleTelenet goes for 1GHz
Belgium’s Telenet is to invest a total of €500 million to upgrade the cable network in Flanders to Europe’s first 1Gb network. Telenet will be upgrading from 600 MHz to 1 GHz, as a result in time the...
View ArticleVivendi picks Telefonica for GVT sale
Vivendi has picked Telefonica for exclusive talks over the sale of its Brazilian broadband unit GVT, spurning a rival bid from Telecom Italia. Telefonica will fold GVT into its Brazilian mobile phone...
View ArticleDOCSIS channels pass 1m in Q2
Infonetics Research has released excerpts from its 2nd quarter 2014 CCAP, CMTS, and Edge QAM Hardware and Subscribers report, which tracks cable broadband equipment and subscribers. “Easily beating...
View ArticleIndia cable stats “not transparent”
The under-reporting of subscriber numbers has long been a scandal in many countries, and costs programmers – and rights owners – a fortune in lost revenues. Now, India’s regulator (TRAI) has reminded...
View ArticleSuperfast altnets developing long-term outlook
The UK’s alternative superfast network operator market looks buoyant with new investment flowing in from a variety of sources, and new relationships being built between network operators and service...
View ArticleDutch digital TV market now 6.7m
The number of digital TV connections in the Netherlands grew by 0.8 per cent during the second quarter of 2014 to 6.76 million on June 30th 2014. Digital TV was used by 87.7 per cent of TV subscribers...
View ArticleTelefonica, Alcatel-Lucent deploy fibre for Spain
Telefonica and Alcatel-Lucent have agreed to deploy a 100GB optical network throughout the northwest, eastern and southern regions of Spain to allow a greater capacity for video and HD video storage....
View ArticleTelefonica adds ‘smart home’ services
Telefonica is enhancing its convergent offers with new packages to be launched later this year that will include 5 or 6 services; TV, broadband and fixed and mobile telephony – with the addition of...
View ArticleCanadians watching less linear TV
Findings from the 2014 Communications Monitoring Report released by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) suggest that with Canadians watching television programming...
View ArticleMovistar ups FTTH speed to 200 Mbps
Telefonica’s Movistar is relying on its FTTH network to boost subscriptions and is increasing the speed of the service to 200 Mbps download and upload over the coming months. The symmetric 200 Mbps...
View ArticleDeutsche Telekom converged home network
Deutsche Telekom is bringing fixed and mobile networks together, making it Germany’s first integrated telecommunications provider. With the MagentaEINS portfolio presented at the IFA 2014 show, the...
View Articleruwido turns over a new leaf
Home input devices and interaction mechanisms specialist ruwido has unveiled the ‘leaf’ remote control, which it says combines the essence of design and technology. The ‘leaf’ input device was created...
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