Tele Columbus acquires PrimaCom for €711m
In a further consolidation of the German broadband cable sector Tele Columbus Group, the third largest German cable network operator, has entered into an agreement to acquire PrimaCom Holding GmbH, the...
View ArticleBT reveals Ultra HD prices
BT has announced details of its new BT TV Ultra HD package, which includes Europe’s very first live sports Ultra HD (4K) channel, BT Sport Ultra HD, and the company’s new BT TV Ultra HD set top box....
View ArticleBranson’s ‘Spaceport America’ 1st launch next summer?
The head of New Mexico’s Spaceport Authority told a special US investigation committee that she was hoping Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic ‘SpaceShip Two’ sub-orbital space plane would start...
View ArticleSurvey: Alternative platforms to eclipse cable and satellite
Americans are eschewing cable and satellite service in favour of a variety of ‘Over The Top’ video options according to a new survey that shows nearly half of consumers already using streaming video...
View ArticleTIM output deals with NBCU and Twentieth Century Fox
Italy’s TIM has signed content deals with NBC Universal and Twentieth Century Fox for its on demand streaming service TIMvision. The multi-year agreement with NBC Universal will enable the telco to...
View ArticleSES claims UHD MSO trial first
Satellite operator SES has initiated the first-ever live and linear Ultra HD (UHD) trial with US cable MSO (Multiple System Operator) Armstrong. Armstrong is testing SES’s camera-to-screen Ultra HD...
View ArticleTalkTalk Q1 “on track”
UK quad-play provider TalkTalk, providing the first trading update for the three months to June, said the overall broadband market had been softer than previous quarters due to a quiet consumer...
View ArticleASA rules Virgin Media ads “misleading”
Virgin Media has been warned that customers can rightly assume that prices during the minimum term of contracts are fixed after the Advertising Standards Authority upheld complaints about its...
View ArticleNetflix, YouTube driving broadband traffic
According to the latest broadband report from Futuresource Consulting, video now accounts for the majority of broadband traffic. This is mainly being driven by the continued global growth of OTT...
View ArticleOz trade body backs affordable, available content
Improvements in the affordability and ready availability of online content in Australia are crucial ingredients to reduce online copyright infringement, Communications Alliance – the primary...
View ArticleComcast Q2 up 11%
Comcast, the largest cable operator in the US, saw its high-speed Internet and NBC Universal businesses grow in Q2 amid a drop in pay-TV subscriber departures. Comcast reported total revenue rose 11.3...
View ArticleTechnicolor buys Cisco CPE for €550m
In a move that it says creates a global leader in customer premises equipment (CPE), Technicolor is buying Cisco’s CPE business for €550 million in cash and stock. Technicolor says the deal will see...
View ArticleEuskaltel buys R Cable
In a further consolidation of the Spanish cable market, Basque Country-based operator Euskaltel has bought Galician R Cable for €1.155 billion to create a large regional cable group in the north of...
View ArticleU-verse drops 22,000 subs
AT&T lost 22,000 U-verse TV subscribers in Q2, compared to 190,000 net adds in the same quarter a year ago. The US telco, which ended Q2 with 5.97 million video subs, blamed typical “seasonality”...
View ArticleAnalyst: ‘Ultra HD investment hitting new highs’
Ultra HD programming is expected to see strong take-up rates globally, with failure to invest now will mean a failure to tap into its growing premium revenues, according to Alan Crisp, Analyst at...
View ArticleBT raises broadband prices
BT has announced price hikes for its broadband and landline services. The telco has confirmed that broadband prices will also increase by 6.9 per cent from September 20th. BT said its price rises come...
View ArticleNextRadioTV, Altice partner for multimedia projects
Alain Weill, the Chairman, CEO, Founder and main shareholder of independent multimedia company NextRadioTV and Patrick Drahi, the Chairman and Founder of multinational cable, fibre, telecommunications,...
View ArticleZegona buys Spain’s Telecable for €640m
Zegona – an operating company established in March 2015 with the objective of acquiring businesses in the European Telecommunications, Media and Technology sector – has reached agreement with global...
View ArticleAT&T completes DirecTV acquisition
US telco AT&T has completed its $48.5 billion (€44.2bn) acquisition of pay-TV provider DirecTV following the Federal Communications Commission’s approval – with conditions – of the deal. The FCC...
View ArticleBARB TV Player Report for September
BARB has announced that the beta version of the TV Player Report is to be released in September, providing official figures on the level of viewing to on-demand and live-streamed content through online...
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