Liberty puts Chello on block
Liberty Global Inc. has put its Chellomedia television-channel business up for sale, in a move that it hopes could net between $800 million and $1 billion, reports the WSJ. Chellomedia is Liberty...
View ArticleUS: 1.1m add broadband in Q1
Leichtman Research Group found that the seventeen largest cable and telephone providers in the US — representing about 93 per cent of the market — acquired 1.1 million net additional high-speed...
View ArticleDish bids for LightSquared broadband
Charlie Ergen, the chairman of Dish Network Corp has offered to buy bankrupt broadband company LightSquared Inc’s wireless airwaves, says Reuters. Ergen’s offer is said to be valued at $2 billion....
View ArticleUK ISPs block pirates
Big UK ISPs have begun blocking two sites accused of piracy.The blocks were imposed after the Motion Picture Association (MPA) won a court order compelling ISPs to cut off Movie2K and Download4All...
View ArticleEU superfast broadband should cost less
Providing superfast broadband services to the whole of the European Union could be much less expensive than previously estimated. This is the key conclusion of a new report from broadband specialists...
View ArticleDocomo acquires MCV Guam
Docomo of Japan has wholly acquired MCV Guam, the largest cable television and Internet service provider in Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The purchase from MCV Acquisition,...
View ArticleONO demands a €8.3m refund
Spain’s largest cable company ONO has asked the Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT) to give it back an amount of €8.3 million paid as a tax to the state-owned broadcaster RTVE over the last...
View ArticleSolid progress for ZEEL
Mumbai-based Zee Entertainment Enterprise Ltd (ZEEL) reported spectacular revenue growth, and profits, for its FY 2013 results. Net profits grew 21.6 per cent, helped by a claimed 670 million viewers...
View ArticleSoros backs UK fibre firm
George Soros has invested £50 million (€59m) into Hyperoptic, the British fibre broadband provider, to help expand the business across the UK. Hyperoptic builds high-speed broadband connections of up...
View Article62% of mobile web users do it while watching TV
InMobi, the mobile advertising network, has published its first global report into multi-screen viewing behavior. The study surveyed 15,000 mobile web users across 14 markets and provides insight into...
View ArticleSwire upgrades to Fleetbroadband unlimited
Swire Pacific Offshore (SPO), a Singapore-based leading service provider to the offshore oil and gas industry, is upgrading to Inmarsat’s FleetBroadband (FB) Unlimited plan. The “all-you-can-eat”...
View ArticleANGA: 450 exhibitors from 36 countries
ANGA COM, the European exhibition and congress for broadband, cable & satellite, will start with 450 exhibitors from 36 countries next week. With this, the event hits last year’s record numbers....
View ArticleFrance Telecom goes Orange in July
France Telecom will become Orange on July 1st 2013. Since 2006, the Group has gradually simplified its visual identity in France and internationally for its various internal and external stakeholders....
View ArticleCisco: 2bn Internet video users by 2017
The Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast (2012-2017) projects that global Internet protocol (IP) traffic will grow three-fold between 2012 and 2017. Global IP traffic (fixed and mobile) is...
View ArticleLatAm broadcasters adopt new platforms
Research carried out by Dataxis has confirmed that 100 per cent of the top 25 free-to-air (FTA) television networks in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru are now broadcasting a digital...
View ArticleNews Corp, Hearst back Roku for $60m
Roku has raised $60 million in new funding from Hearst Corporation, News Corp and Sky as well as institutional investor Fidelity. The company said that the new investment will help Roku expand its...
View ArticleService providers increase productivity with Arris
Arris Group has announced that service providers using its WorkAssure Workforce Automation suite have experienced quantifiable gains in subscriber satisfaction and workforce productivity, through...
View ArticleSpain prefers Internet to TV
Spaniards prefer surfing through the Internet to watching TV to amuse themselves, according to a report from the consultancy firm Deloitte. The study with a 2,000 sample reveals that 55 per cent of the...
View ArticleSoftAtHome, Zappware partner for next-gen cable platform
Digital home platform provider SoftAtHome is teaming up cwith interactive television specialist Zappware to build a next generation platform for cable TV operators. This will be created by integrating...
View ArticleNexans launches FTTA cable solutions for new generation mobile network sites
Nexans, a worldwide expert in the cable industry, has launched an innovative range of FTTA (Fiber to the Antenna) solutions developed specifically to provide the vital fast data connection between the...
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