Solcon deploys Verimatrix/Divitel solution
Verimatrix, the specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for digital TV services, has partnered with Divitel, a provider of digital media solutions, to develop a joint solution that integrates the...
View ArticleCharter tests Cisco’s remote DVR technology
Cable MSO Charter Communications is testing a new ‘remote DVR’, according to an FCC filing from Cisco in support of the proposed Charter/Time Warner Cable merger. Cisco and Charter Communications, the...
View ArticleTele Columbus sets share price
Tele Columbus, the third largest German cable network operator, has announced the launch of a capital increase by way of a rights offering for the repayment of the equity bridge loan and part of a...
View ArticleExclusive content to boost UK multiplay adoption
By the end of 2019, almost 85 per cent of UK households will have signed up to bundles of at least two telecom and media services from the same provider. According to a multiplay services forecast by...
View ArticleSoftAtHome joins AllSeen Alliance
SoftAtHome, a provider of home operating platforms enabling convergent services for the digital home, has joined the AllSeen Alliance, a cross-industry collaboration to advance the Internet of...
View ArticleBroadband Forum demos G.fast
The Broadband Forum has announced the hosting of many new technologies on its Interoperability Pavilion at the Broadband World Forum event. This includes the first demonstrations of G.fast which...
View ArticleVirgin Media: ‘Regulation should foster competition’
Tom Mockridge, CEO of UK quadplay operator Virgin Media, has called for a number of regulatory initiatives better to allow alternative telcos to compete with BT. Delivering a Keynote Address at the...
View ArticleAustralia’s nbn preps G.Fast launch
Tony Cross, Chief Architect of Australia’s nbn (National Broadband Network), has announced in his Keynote Address at the Broadband World Forum 2015 event in London that the company has conducted its...
View ArticleSintecMedia acquires Broadway Systems
SintecMedia has acquired Broadway Systems, a provider of broadcast management solutions. Broadway Systems manages several billion dollars in advertising revenues across news, sports, music, and...
View ArticleItaly adds 440,000 broadband lines
The number of broadband accesses in Italy reached 14.64 million at the end of the first half of 2015, representing an annual increase of 440,000 units (+270,000 compared to the beginning of the year)....
View ArticleBT, Alcatel-Lucent achieve 5Gbps over copper
A potential future development of G.fast broadband technology, known as ‘XG.FAST’, has achieved speeds of more than 5 Gigabits per second in early experimental lab trials conducted by BT and Alcatel...
View ArticleZyXEL: Demand for Wi-Fi puts ISPs under pressure
Service providers are on the brink of a major shift in opportunity, says ZyXEL’s Vice President of Service Providers & Key Accounts, Europe, Karsten Gewecke. The explosion in the numbers of...
View ArticleSky profits up 10%
Sky’s British and European Q1 results were in the main better than expected. Equity analysts praised the pay-TV broadcaster’s broadband efforts which resulted in the best growth (+133,000) for two...
View ArticleVirgin Media: Fans demand more live TV football
Three quarters of English football fans (77 per cent) would like more live Premier League games available on TV, new research reveals. The research, carried out among more than 1,000 football fans and...
View ArticleTelstra deploys ARRIS router
ARRIS has announced that Telstra, Australia’s largest telecommunications provider, is deploying the ARRIS E6000 Converged Edge Router (CER) as it rapidly expands its cable network capacity on the...
View ArticleOrange raises profit target on Q3 performance
Orange posted higher Q3 sales and core profit for the first time since 2009 helped by stronger results in its key market of France, prompting it to raise its annual profit target. Europe’s fourth...
View ArticleEurope’s broadband 75% as fast as advertised
Broadband in the EU are still only 75 percent of the advertised download speed. These are the findings of three studies on broadband speed, price and coverage published by the European Commission. The...
View ArticleSpotX partners with Moat
Video inventory management platform, SpotX, has partnered with independent ad analytics company, Moat, to measure viewability and performance metrics across inventory sold through its platform. The...
View ArticleTVbeat analytics for Slovenia, Croatia
TVbeat, the cross platform real time TV audience measurement platform, today has confirmed the release of its Live TV audience measurement module in Slovenia and Croatia. For the first time ever, local...
View ArticleOrange Spain gains revenue and subs
Orange Spain is doing better in terms of revenues and clients. In the third quarter of the year, the company managed to slow its decline in revenues, from falls of 2.5 and 5 per cent in the previous...
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