Astra solution for UK satellite pilot
SES has announced that its Astra Connect for Communities solution will be used in a UK Government-funded Market Test Pilot (MTP) project. These Pilot projects aim to assess which technologies and...
View Articleupc cablecom reports solid 2014
upc cablecom sae its strongest growth ever in Internet connections in 2014, adding 65,600 new subscriptions across Switzerland. Revenue rose to CHF 1.294 billion over the twelve months of last year – a...
View ArticleUnitymedia settles KabelBW antitrust case
European cable operator Liberty Global’s German unit has reached an agreement with two companies who objected to its €3 billion purchase of cable provider KabelBW. A regional court in Duesseldorf ruled...
View ArticleLiberty Global: “2014 a milestone year”
Liberty Global has reported 3.5 million pay-TV subscribers at the end of 2014, with its year-end Horizon base lifted to 914,000 by a record take-up in Germany in the fourth quarter. Virgin Media in the...
View ArticleNCTA: “Title II is a fatal step… we’ll sue”
As expected, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association has come out swinging against the FCC’s Title II Net Neutrality proposition. President Michael Powell says he anticipates the...
View ArticleVirgin Media €4bn broadband boost
UK broadband cable MSO Virgin Media, is embarking on ‘Project Lightning’, which it describes as the single largest investment in broadband digital infrastructure in the country for more than a decade;...
View ArticleMTG sells stake in Sappa
MTG has completed the sale of its 50 per cent stake in Swedish cable TV company Sappa to Finnish telecom operator Anvia for an enterprise value (on a 100 per cent basis) of SEK 135 million (€14m)....
View Article$1bn triple busy day for SES
Satellite operator SES is buying three satellites in a series of orders that will cost around $1 billion in total to build and launch. One new craft, the hybrid SES-14, will replace and expand the role...
View ArticleArris E6000 router for Akado
Moscow Telecommunications Corporation COMCOR (the Akado Telecom brand) will deploy the E6000 Converged Edge Router (CER) from Arris to give its customers in Moscow access to a 200 Mbps high-speed...
View ArticleOrange: Q4 TV subs boost
Orange’s Q4 results show the telco has a total of 7.190 million IPTV and satellite customers across its operations, a 10.4 per cent year-on-year increase. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation...
View ArticleOpportunities for SVoD in emerging markets
The growing investment in broadband infrastructure, with the improvement in network speed and performance, has opened up new opportunities to provide video over IP, not only in more advanced, developed...
View ArticleTriple downgrades for US cable
One of the US’ major media research analysts has downgraded three major cable stocks and expressed anxiety about the threat of tough regulations on the sector, and in effect is applying its own...
View ArticleVivendi to sell Numericable-SFR stake?
French media giant Vivendi says it has received a “binding offer” from Altice and Numericable-SFR for its remaining 20 per cent stake in Numericable-SFR, at a price of €40 a share, and equivalent to...
View ArticleIndia: 74% increase in mobile data traffic in 2014
A Nokia Networks report on mobile broadband performance in India reveals a 74 per cent increase in mobile data traffic generated by both 2G and 3G mobile broadband services at the end of 2014, compared...
View ArticleTF1 ad sales down in Q4
France’s largest private broadcaster, TF1, saw Q4 advertising sales down 1.2 per cent at €482.4 million. Operating profit fell 20.6 per cent to €84.7 million. The company, which is home to France’s...
View ArticleHalf price TV and free fibre with TalkTalk
TalkTalk customers can now take advantage of what it says is the best value fibre broadband on the market, free for 6 months and then £13.50 a month saving up to £177 compared to BT over 18 months. The...
View Articleupc cablecom hits 1m Horizon customers
upc cablecom has welcomed its millionth Horizon customer. The Liberty Global multimedia platform was launched in Switzerland just over two years ago. The Horizon HD Recorder is also available in...
View ArticleMost Americans unfamiliar with Net Neutrality
According to US public policy think tank the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), most Americans are unfamiliar with the term ‘net neutrality’, want greater disclosure of the details of the FCC’s...
View ArticleTelecom Italia to buy out media unit
Telecom Italia will incorporate its Telecom Italia Media unit (in which it has 78 per cent) after a buyout offer in shares which should be completed by the end of September. The boards of the two...
View ArticleSatLink orders NovelSat Modems
NovelSat, a specialist in satellite transmission technology, has announced that satellite services provider SatLink Communications has acquired a sizable quantity of NovelSat NS300 satellite modems to...
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