Sky Deutschland has delivered another set of encouraging results ahead of analysts’ expectations. The operator added 98,000 net customers in the third quarter, doubling its additions year-on-year and taking net additions for the year to over 200,200. Gross adds were 188,000, up 17 per cent year-on-year, while churn fell to 12.7 per cent from 18.5 […]
Coinciding with the launch of its Wireless HD Net Connect product, a study from Philips suggests that the adoption of online video content may motivate some Americans to cancel or downgrade cable subscriptions. The study found that the vast majority (80 per cent) of people who watch video content online do so on laptops, and […]
The second consolidation move in the Spanish cable market is under way. Following the recent sale of Telecable, in the north of Spain to The Carlyle Group, now Euskatel, the second largest cable company behind ONO, is also moving with the consolidation tide. Savings banks BBK and Kutxa, owners of more than 60 per cent […]
Canal Plus is expected to complete its due diligence of Polish broadcaster TVN within weeks, ahead of a planned merger of the two companies’ pay-TV units, TVN Chief Executive Markus Tellenbach told a press conference. The companies have yet to determine the proportion of stakes each will get in the merged pay-TV firm, he added. […]
According to findings from entertainment, media and technology market research firm Interpret, despite the “monumental” growth of online TV viewership, the effects on cord-cutting have so far been minimal. Interpret’s report – Online TV: Competitor or Complement to Traditional TV? – analyses the quarterly evolution of online television and what drives consumers to access this […]
According to findings from market research firm The NPD Group, ‘throttling down’ is a bigger threat to television service providers than ‘cord cutting’. The firm’s report – Entertainment Trends in America – suggests that many consumers are supplementing their pay television offerings from cable TV, satellite TV and IPTV operators. Looking beyond traditional basic and […]
Kabel BW, which Liberty Global wants to buy for €3.16 billion has reported nine-month adjusted earnings rose 15 per cent as customers bought more pay-TV and Internet services. EBITDA rose to €268.1 million from €232.5 million a year earlier, the company said. Liberty Global is waiting for Germany’s antitrust regulator to decide by December 15th […]
Telcos in Latin America are adopting a number of strategies to counter the declining revenue from traditional voice services, the deceleration of data growth and the rising participation of cable companies in the traditional telco space (voice and broadband). Accordingly, the past few years have seen the telcos try to broaden their scope of action […]
Jersey-based O3b is a would-be satellite operator looking to serve the ‘other 3 billion’, that is the millions who live either side of the Equator and are unserved by broadband availability. O3b’s largest investor is SES, but other investors include Google, Liberty Global, HSBC and others O3b has now raised another $137 million to pay […]
Latin America’s seven main markets have absorbed almost 21 million set-top boxes as it adopts digital pay-TV. Latest numbers from Dataxis Online Intelligence says 20.57 million units have been supplied or bought by viewers, and this number to grow to 26.4 million by 2016. Of the above installed total, 7.4 million serve cabled homes, 12.3 […]