The 10 leading pay-TV services in the US managed to maintain more of their subscribers over the third quarter of 2015 according to informitv’s Multiscreen Index. Their combined subscriber losses were lower than some analysts had anticipated. The top ten services in the US that report numbers recorded a total net loss of 128,400 subscribers […]
TiVo has surpassed 4 million international subscriptions through its traditional TiVo offering. According to TiVo, this represents an important milestone in its international growth and comes as the result of accelerated subscription growth in Europe through customers such as Virgin Media/Liberty Global in the UK, ONO/Vodafone in Spain, and Com Hem in Sweden – each […]
Ericsson and Cisco – two industry leaders in the development and delivery of networking, mobility, and cloud – have announced a global business and technology partnership to create the networks of the future. The multi-faceted relationship will offer customers the best of both companies: routing, data center, networking, cloud, mobility, management and control, and global […]
Telefónica had 2.5 million TV customers in Spain at the end of September, up 275,000 quarter-on-quarter and up 1.6 million compared with the same period last year. The company’s Movistar Fusión bundled offering had four million customers at the end of the period, accounting for close to 90 per cent of gross additions for the […]
Kuwait Projects Company (KIPCO) issued a statement on November 8th to deny local reports that it had sold its stake in pay-TV operator OSN to the Qatar Investment Authority. The statement appeared on the Kuwait Stock Exchange. However, while the reports may be rumour only it is well-known that KIPCO has been searching for a […]
Netflix has indicated that Movistar users connected to its video streaming service have experienced performance issues since it was launched in Spain on October 20th. “We are aware that there are problems in the streaming performance, especially via the Movistar network, during prime time evening slots,” said the company’s European communications head Joris Evers in […]
Driven by double digit growth in key digital categories, US consumer spending on home entertainment remained stable in the third quarter of 2015, according to the initial findings from the Digital Entertainment Group’s Third Quarter 2015 Home Entertainment Report. Consumers continued to embrace the convenience and accessibility of purchasing and collecting digital content, with studios […]
Total pay-TV subscriptions across Africa amounted to 15.9 million as of Q2 2015, according to the research from Dataxis, an increase of 18 per cent over the 13.4 million recorded in the same period last year. DTH is still the dominant platform across the region with 12.6 million subs end June, an increase of 17 […]
The Portuguese government is planning to increase the DTT channel offer and also improve coverage, according to a four-year programme submitted to Parliament. The programme foresees a renegotiation with DTT network operator Portugal Telecom as well as with other relevant players, with the goal of expanding the capacity of the multiplexes. This would create the […]
Vubiquity, a global provider of premium content services, is in discussions with multiple retailers in a number of territories to launch a product that would allow consumers to buy digital content, initially movies, in high street shopping outlets. As part of this expansion, Vubiquity has hired home entertainment and retail specialist Rob Salter, formerly CEO […]