A judgment has been obtained in the High Court of England and Wales against a Sky customer who had been streaming Sky Sports content illegally online. Yusuf Mohammed, of Bristol in the west of England, has been ordered to pay legal costs of over £16,000 (€17,945), and to disclose details about the money he made […]
Orange Spain is performing well in the Spanish market. The company managed to increase the number of its TV subscribers by 29.6 per cent to 593,000 in the first nine months of the year. Orange Spain currently has 4,2 million broadband customers – 2.08 million through optic fibre, up 47.7 per cent from one year […]
According to global information provider, The NPD Group, 57 per cent of all US smartphone users access video content via an app at least once a month, with iOS users more likely than Android users to access video content, 66 per cent versus 49 per cent, respectively. Streaming video is the number one driver of […]
In a world where all-episodes-at-once has quickly become ubiquitous, what else will consumers want out of their entertainment experience in the future? Netflix believes that while consumers access their favourite TV shows and films across a number of electronic devices in the age of streaming, the television still endures as the primary viewing device for […]
Telefónica’s IPTV platform Movistar Plus gained 100,000 net TV subscribers in the third quarter, double on the same period from the previous quarter. The rise is largely attributed to the new Fusión packages launched in July. The number of subscribers to the convergent offer Movistar Fusión grew by 2 per cent year-on-year with an 85 […]
Akamai Technologies unveiled its Q3 numbers this week, with co-founder and CEO Tom Leighton telling analysts that there was “strong traffic acceleration” in its Media business ($273 million (€231m) in the quarter-year). “Revenue in Q3 was $621 million, above the high-end of our guidance range and up 6 per cent over Q3 of last year,” […]
LG Display, which makes flat panels for its own use in TV sets and cellular phones and sells panels to other display manufacturers, saw year-on-year operating profits rise impressively by more than 80 per cent to Won 586bn (€519m) for its third-quarter. This continues the improvement achieved in Q2 (Won 804bn). LG Display reported that […]
According to Dataxis estimates, the US broadband market grew by 0.7 per cent in the second quarter of 2017, gaining 686,000 subscribers. The total number of accesses reached 104 million in June 2017. This progression confirms the trend of continuous and regular growth observed in recent years. Dataxis analysis underlines different variations between broadband technologies. […]
Sky Store, the digital retailer for new release movies, is now offering more ways to Buy & Keep the latest blockbusters. Rolling out from this week, Sky Store customers will get the choice to Buy & Keep just the HD Digital version of a movie, or add a Blu-ray or DVD to arrive in the […]
Huawei has officially released its Virtual Reality (VR) OpenLab industry cooperation plan, at Ultra-Broadband Forum (UBBF 2017) in China, to promote the prosperity of Cloud VR, facilitate technological innovations, incubate business scenarios, and construct a comprehensive Cloud VR industry ecosystem. The VR OpenLab industry cooperation plan aims to help upstream and downstream partners jointly explore […]