Lantiq, a specialist in next-generation access and home networking technologies, and T-Venture have announced the closing of a strategic investment. T- Venture, the venture capital company of Deutsche Telekom, is supporting Lantiq with a capital investment and will provide future strategic advice to the company.
Irdeto has implemented its robust customer care and billing solution for long term customer Telenor Group in Denmark for Pay TV. The solution will also be rolled out in Sweden, Norway and Finland in the next months to provide Telenor with a flexible solution that enables the effective management of multi-play services, streamlined workflows, improved […]
The BBC has confirmed most of the details leaked about its strategic review. Its recommendations are now subject to public comment and approval by the BBC Trust. As expected headlines were grabbed by the proposed closure of DAB radio stations for the Asian community and BBC 6, the 'specialist' music station, both of which had […]
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government has approved lower advertising ceilings for pay TV that News Corp's Italian unit says will curtail its growth and that of other networks on Rupert Murdoch's satellite platform. New regulations will gradually limit the maximum amount of advertising per hour of pay television programming, to 12 per cent in […]
UK STB manufacturer Pace has reported revenues increased 52 per cent to £1.133 billion (E1.248bn) in the year to end-December 2009, up from £745.5 million the previous year. Profit before tax was up 405 per cent to £69.9 million. Neil Gaydon, CEO, said: ‘In 2009 Pace delivered exceptional growth and record results and is now […]
The European Commission has granted clearance for the proposed merger of the UK businesses of Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom. The new joint venture company is expected to generate estimated synergies with a value in excess of E4 billion. The new business will have pro forma 2009 revenues of approximately E8.5 billion and EBITDA of […]
iThe BBC has released a new version of its iPlayer which has been custom made for BlackBerry mobiles. However, for now, the application only works through Wi-Fi which means users can't use the 3G network provided by their operator. The application is not yet available in the Blackberry App World but can be downloaded directly […]
From Branislav Pekic in Rome The number of pay-TV subscribers in Portugal increased 10.6 per cent in the 4Q 2009 to over 2.5 million or 45 per cent of total households, according to data released by the country's telecommunications regulator Anacom. The figure includes all platforms (cable, DTH, fibre and other technologies) and represents a […]
Figures from Screen Digest have revealed that Pace, the leading developer of digital TV technologies for the pay-TV industry, is now the world’s number two set-top box supplier to pay-TV customers (up from number three in 2008). It has leapfrogged Tecchnicolor (formerly Thomson) to sit behind Motorola. Neil Gaydon, Chief Executive Officer, Pace, commented: “We’ve […]
Dish Network Corp, the number 2 US satellite television operator, posted better-than-expected quarterly revenue as its subscriber base expanded in the face of a weak economy. Fourth-quarter revenue rose 1.4 per cent to $2.96 billion. Net income came in at $179 million compared with $217 million, the year-ago quarter. Dish, which is controlled by Chief […]