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SWISSCOM carriage for TRACE

International brand and media group TRACE has signed its first carriage deal with Swisscom. The distribution agreement will include TRACE Urban SD & HD, an international Hip-Hop and R&B music...

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Telecom Italia denies Brazil move

Telecom Italia put out a stock exchange statement Sept 17 firmly denying reports that its Brazilian subsidiary was interested in buying Oi, a Brazilian telco and satellite broadcaster. The filing...

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CSA extends TDF’s B2M trial

French TV regulator CSA has extended until March 2015 the authorisation for TDF to trial DTT broadcasts of service B2M (Broadcast Mobile Multimedia) using DVB-T. TDF broadcasts the service from the...

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INTX replaces Cable Show

To bring together the world of entertainment, communications and the Internet, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) announced that INTX: the Internet and Television Expo will...

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Telefonica and Cisco partner for advanced network

Telefonica and Cisco have joined forces to set up an advanced testing platform to jointly explore and capitalise on the benefits of converged IP and optical networks. Both companies aim at improving...

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Telefónica finalises €4.7bn GVT acquisition

Telefónica and Vivendi have signed the final agreement for the sale of Global Village Telecom, GVT, to Telefónica, a move that reinforces the Spanish telco’s leadership in Brazil, and is expected to...

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BT Sport Extra red button

BT Sport viewers are set to benefit from more top flight TV programming following the launch of its BT Sport Extra ‘red button’ service in the UK and Ireland, this weekend. BT Sport Extra will be on...

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Telefónica to launch 1 Gbps symmetrical service

Responding to Vodafone and Orange’s respective acquisitions of ONO and Jazztel, Telefónica is putting more pressure on the Spanish market with the forthcoming launch of 200 Mbps symmetrical services...

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Half the world online by 2017

Over 50 per cent of the global population will have Internet access within three years’ time, with mobile broadband over smartphones and tablets now the fastest growing technology in human history,...

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Chile’s VTR selects ARRIS

VTR GlobalCom has chosen ARRIS Group’s E6000 Converged Edge Router (CER) to grow its network and offer enhanced high-speed broadband services. The E6000 CER also enables VTR concurrently to reduce its...

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Aurora boosts cablecos’ RoI

Aurora Networks, a Pace company, and developer and manufacturer of advanced, next-generation Optical Transport and Access Network solutions for broadband networks that support the convergence of video,...

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Spain: Telcos to pay for 4G interference

Spanish telcos will have to pay the bill for any 4G interference in the transmission of DTT from January 1st when the DTT migration to another frequencies band is completed. The Government has made...

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MENA anti-piracy operation grows

The Middle East’s Broadcast Satellite Anti-Piracy Coalition, meeting in Cairo, say that their organisation has grown by six new members, including Rotana, ART, IAA, the Egyptian Chamber of Commerce,...

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PCCW’s Berriman: Broadband at core of quad-play success

According to Paul Berriman, Chief Technology Officer at Hong Kong’s PCCW, the telco’s 12-year broadband strategy with fibre broadband at its core has enabled it to achieve Number One status across its...

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Clouds gather. Shift Happens.

SCTE Denver. Shifts Happen was the pithy up sum on how cable has to keep on keeping up with every new innovation that tries to eat its lunch. It was provided by retiring Time Warner Cable CTO Mike...

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BT: Fibre fundamental to TV launch

Clive Selley, Chief Executive Officer BT Technology, Service and Operations, has admitted that the telco’s “bold bet” on investing in a large-scale fibre roll-out was fundamental to its launch of TV...

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Fries: Netflix a great lesson

Mike Fries, CEO of Liberty Global, says he and Reed Hastings are far from enemies, no, “Netflix has taught us all a great lesson; all we were missing was a great app, that gives a great experience...

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SES eyes German broadband market

SES Broadband Services is expanding its relationship with Orbitcom to boost sales of its Astra Connect for German potential Internet and broadband communities. SES says that the new deal follows...

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upc cablecom acquires Komtech Group

The owners of Komtech Group, parent company of Telekabel Arbon, Schefer and Grischa Vision, have confirmed they are selling 100 per cent of their shares to upc cablecom. The three cable networks have...

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Network upgrades improve ISP, TV performance and reliability

The number of performance quality, reliability and connection speed problems has declined from last year as TV and Internet service providers (ISP) continue to upgrade their networks to newer...

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