NBN selects Arris
NBN, the government Business Enterprise tasked with delivering open access broadband network to all Australians, has chosen Arris Group to build its next-generation Hybrid Fibre-Coaxial (HFC) broadband...
View ArticleOrange to extend LTE in Spain
French telco Orange, is to invest €400 million in the deployment of its LTE network over the next three years, €100 million in 2015 making a total of €1.5 billion since the start of its operations in...
View ArticleDISH sheds 63,000 pay-TV subs in Q4
US satellite TV provider DISH Network has reported a rise in its earnings for the fourth quarter. Net income attributable to the company came in at $409.9 million up from $288 million in the same...
View ArticleDirecTV boosts Argentina broadband
DTH broadcaster DirecTV is moving deeper into wireless broadband in South America. It already has some wireless offerings in Argentina, and will now expand services into Argentina’s capital city...
View ArticleComcast Chief: “2014 a great year financially”
Comcast has reported results for the quarter and year ended December 31st 2014. Brian L. Roberts, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Comcast Corporation, said, “2014 was a great year financially,...
View ArticleSurvey: Telefónica TV lags in LatAm
Telecommunications company Telefónica remains Latin America’s fifth largest pay TV group, according to new research from Dataxis. As of Q3 2014, the Spanish company ranked behind America Móvil, DirecTV...
View ArticleAustralian consumers: ‘Anti-piracy scheme scary’
Australian consumer advocacy body CHOICE has launched a campaign encouraging consumers to help educate the Minister for Communications, Malcolm Turnbull about the need for consumer protections in a...
View ArticleEuskaltel considers IPO
Spanish local cable operator Euskaltel is considering a float on the Stock Market to raise funds for growth. The company, with operations in the Basque Country, has hired Rothschild Bank to assess the...
View ArticleFrontier, TiVo team for OTA and OTT
US triple-play operator Frontier Communications – which focuses on rural areas and small and medium-sized towns and cities – is to market and deploy co-branded versions of advanced television...
View ArticleUS pay-TV subs numbers ‘relatively static’
The informitv Multiscreen Index shows that the ten leading pay-television operators in the United States collectively lost 20,600 subscribers in the last quarter of 2014, compared to a loss of 45,000...
View Article1 in 3 UK broadband connections now superfast
Nearly one in three UK broadband connections are now superfast, up from around one in four in November 2013, according to new Ofcom research. The growing take-up of superfast cable or fibre services –...
View ArticleAnalyst: Cord-cutting evidence confused
Analyst firm MoffettNathanson’s comprehensive quarterly report on the US cable and satellite pay-TV sector, admits that on the surface “all is calm” insofar as subscriptions are up (by 101,000) during...
View ArticleConsumers still favour ‘traditional’ service providers
Amdocs, a provider of customer experience solutions, has released independent research that explores the market forces driving The New World of Customer Experience, a world characterised by a rapidly...
View ArticleRecord 5G speeds achieved
Record-breaking speeds have been achieved during tests of 5G data connections. Researchers at the University of Surrey’s 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC) managed one terabit per second (Tbps) – many...
View ArticleFrance: Virgin Mobile launches quadplay offering
French MVNO Virgin Mobile has launched its first quadruple play offer, which combines SFR’s triple play ADSL box with a 20GHz 4G mobile service. Following its acquisition at the end of 2014, Virgin...
View ArticleDeutsche Telekom adds 65,000 IPTV subs in Q4
Deutsche Telekom has reported that Q4 2014 EBITDA rose 9.5 per cent to €4.44 billion, driven by its US business. It expects adjusted EBITDA to rise almost 4 per cent to around €18.3 billion at constant...
View ArticleFCC adopts net neutrality rules
The US’s Federal Communications Commission has followed the lead of President Barack Obama and voted to impose tough new rules for net neutrality, introducing a measure that seems sure to bring a court...
View ArticleOSN, du partner for OTT TV
Dubai-based pay-TV operator OSN is teaming up with UAE regional telco du to offer online TV platform OSN Play for free as part of OSN subscriptions on du. Emad Marcos, senior vice president, business...
View ArticleGreen light for Seven’s Presto deal
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has announced that it will not oppose the proposed acquisition of shares in the Presto Entertainment SVoD service by Seven Network Operations, a...
View ArticleVivendi accepts Numericable-SFR, Altice offer
Multinational cable and telecommunications company Altice, founded by telecoms entrepreneur Patrick Drahi, has entered into the final agreements with Vivendi regarding the acquisition of the 20 per...
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