Liberty Global has completed its previously announced distribution of the tracking stock for its operations in Latin America and the Caribbean (the “LiLAC Group”) to shareholders. These ordinary shares will begin regular-way trading on July 2nd. The LiLAC Class A (LILA) and Class C (LILAK) ordinary shares will trade on NASDAQ, and the LiLAC Class […]
Sri Lanka is enjoying a DTH satellite pay-TV boom, says Dataxis Intelligence. Q1 2015 saw growth of 42.3 per cent (y-o-y) says the research company. The Sri Lanka pay-TV market is modest, with some 662,000 subscribers (cable and DTH) at the end of 2014 and growing to 724,000 at the end of March 2015. Dataxis […]
The glass fibre optic cable network in the municipality of Maladers in the canton of Graubünde has so far been run by cable operator Tele Maladers, Genossenschaft für das Kabelfernsehen. The operator has now sold the glass fibre optic cable network to long-term partner upc cablecom effective immediately. Thanks to upc cablecom’s acquisition of the […]
DIGI, one of Hungary’s leading telecom operators, has added the AMC channel to its platforms. As a result, AMC now reaches over 2.2 million households in Hungary. This is yet another significant step in the widening of AMC’s distribution, which in 8 months time has more than doubled the number of households where it can […]
Motive Television, the technology provider to broadcasters and pay television operators, has developed a Mobile Personal Video Recorder (PVR), which the company believes is the world’s first ATSC format PVR for mobile devices. Unlike other personal video recorders, Mobile PVR is entirely based on proprietary Motive software. This new product provides the ability to […]
Univision Deportes, the sports division of Univision Communications, a media company serving Hispanic America, has announced the live streaming of the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup football matches as part of the company’s portfolio of digital offerings for the highly anticipated tournament. The full live stream of each match will be available to fans via mobile, […]
Intelsat, a provider of satellite services, has announced that Axesat has signed a multi-year agreement for satellite services on the high-performance Intelsat EpicNG platform. Axesat, the largest provider of satellite-based corporate networks in Colombia, selected the Intelsat 29e satellite as the best choice to support the growing needs of its corporate enterprise customers as well […]
Inverto, developer and marketer of broadcast reception and streaming products and leader in the dCSS product category marketed under its Unicable2 trademark, has announced new fully programmable LNB and Multiswitch products enabling installations with up to 32 satellite receivers connected over a single coax cable. Inverto’s Unicable2 products are fully programmable allowing Installers and Operators […]
Ofcom has published on the volumes of consumer complaints made to Ofcom against the major providers of telecoms and pay-TV services. The latest report covers the three-month period from January to March 2015 (Q1), and reports on the complaints made to 13 providers of fixed line telephone, fixed line broadband, pay monthly mobile and pay-TV […]
More Netflix users in the US are officially cutting the cord than ever before. In a survey of 829 current Netflix subscribers, CutCableToday found that just 67 per cent still have a pay-TV service (cable or satellite), and of those, 9 per cent plan to cancel their pay TV service and another 16 per cent are […]