Italy: Blanket 30 Mbps coverage by 2020
Italy plans to cover 100 per cent the territory with 30 Mbps connections by 2020, while the goal is to arrive to 50 per cent of subscribers with speeds of 100 Mbps. These are the main goals of the...
View ArticleUK hits 90% superfast broadband coverage
Thinkbroadband reports that the UK now has superfast broadband available to 90 per cent of households. The broadband information site’s tracking of what Openreach, KCom and Virgin Media have delivered...
View ArticleTele Columbus results
Tele Columbus, the third largest German cable network operator, has announced its pro forma FY2015 results (based on the assumption that the primacom and pepcom acquisitions had occurred on January 1st...
View ArticleIndia DTH winning battle with cable
It seems that satellite is winning the battle with cable distribution in India. The latest numbers from India’s Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (MIB) say that of the 35.2 million set-top...
View ArticleNetherlands: 700,000+ quad-play subs
The number of Dutch households with quad-play subscriptions, including both fixed and mobile services, grew to more than 700,000 at the end of 2015, according to Telecompaper’s Dutch Consumer Multiplay...
View ArticleIPTV overtakes pay satellite TV in Western Europe
The number of homes paying for IPTV in Western Europe overtook pay satellite TV ones in 2015. According the Digital TV Western Europe Forecasts report, IPTV subscriptions will climb by nearly 7 million...
View ArticleNetflix ISP Speed Index for March
Netflix has released March data from its ISP Speed Index – its monthly update on which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide the best prime-time Netflix streaming experience. Back in December,...
View ArticleSpain: Orange to cut 435 jobs
Orange Spain has completed its redundancy plan that will affect 435 workers, less than the expected 496. The company is also restructuring its executive committe which will now have 11 members after...
View ArticleResearch: Cabsat cos out of touch with consumer demand
US consumers overwhelmingly rate cable as the most unfavourable option for TV viewing. Mohu, creator of indoor HDTV antennas, has published the results of a nationwide favourability poll, indicating...
View ArticleUK broadband: TalkTalk fights back
Research from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech on the home services market – covering broadband, fixed landline and paid television – reveals a positive outlook for TalkTalk. The provider’s share of new...
View ArticleBT Infinity 1 service offers speeds of up 52Mbps
UK consumers can now benefit from faster broadband connections after BT launched its new BT Infinity 1 service offering speeds up to 52Mbps, which the telco says is a faster standard fibre service than...
View ArticleGlobal broadband reaches 750m
The most recent milestone for broadband came late in 2015 according to a report from Point Topic. As at the end of December 2015 there were 751.2 million fixed broadband lines globally. “Broadband...
View ArticleObama weighs in for open cable set tops
The Obama administration has weighed into the debate over allowing consumers to switch cable television boxes for less expensive devices, urging the FCC to set an example for other parts of government...
View ArticleCom Hem adds 5,000 TV subs in Q1
Com Hem, the Swedish telco, has reported Q1 revenue totalled SEK 1,276m (1,228), up 3.9 per cent. The number of unique consumer subscribers rose 9,000 to a total of 920,000. There was a continued...
View ArticleItaly: Vodafone to offer 500 Mbps
Vodafone Italia will become the first operator in Italy to offer speeds of up to 500 Mbps on fibre. The operator will initially deploy the new connections on its FTTH network in Milan, Bologna and...
View ArticleCityFibre turns first profit
CityFibre made a first profit as the fibre broadband group benefits from demand for alternatives to BT’s Openreach network. The AIM listed company builds and operates fibre optic networks for customers...
View ArticleDISH pay-TV subs down, broadband subs up
DISH Network has reported revenue totaling $3.79 billion (€3.33bn) for the quarter ending March 31st 2016, compared to $3.72 billion for the corresponding period in 2015. Subscriber-related revenue for...
View ArticleOpportunity for OTT providers in video ecosystem
“Broadcast is alive, well, and continues to deliver value in today’s fragmented ecosystem,” asserted Howard Horowitz, president of Horowitz Research, at the Online Video Conference at the NAB Show in...
View ArticleWitbe, Canal+ collaborate on QoE monitoring
Witbe, a specilst in Quality of Experience (QoE) Test and Monitoring, has announced an extended partnership with Canal+. The French pay-TV company needed a monitoring solution that could work...
View ArticleDLNA solves HTML5 conformance testing challenge
The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) has designed and deployed an HTML5 conformance suite for embedded devices based on the W3C’s “Test the Web Forward” project. As part of DLNA’s Certification...
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