UPC Ireland expects to begin offering 50Mb broadband services to homes around the country in August. The company’s chief executive, Robert Dunn, confirmed the expected launch date and added that a 120Mb service is likely to be made available subsequent to that. Dunn added that when launched, the 50Mb service will be available to about […]
Sirius XM posted strong Q4 results thanks to additional subscribers and severe cost cutting. Quarterly earnings came in at $14.2 million, up from a loss of $245.8 million a year earlier. More than 257,000 net new customers were added leaving Sirius to close the year with 18.8 million subs, slightly less than the 2008 number. […]
Brightcove, the online video platform, has made an agreement with Virgin Media to support short-form video content across Virginmedia.com. Virgin Media offers a range of online news, sports, music and entertainment content and will use the Brightcove platform to publish and distribute high quality, advertising-supported video across its website. The first Virgin Media brand to […]
Alcatel-Lucent has revealed that Velton Telecom, a private Ukrainian operator providing fixed communication services across 14 cities of Central, Eastern and Western parts of Ukraine, is launching a field trial of innovative IPTV services to business and residential subscribers in Kharkov and Poltava. Alcatel-Lucent has been selected as the network integrator, utilising the Microsoft Mediaroom […]
Pace Networks' MultiDweller distribution platform has been deployed in the UK for the first time, opening up access to digital services for hard-to-reach residents in multi-dwelling apartments. Initially installed in apartment blocks in South Yorkshire as part of a joint project with not-for-profit organisation, The Advanced Digital Institute (ADI), and broadband provider, Thales UK, MultiDweller […]
NDS , the provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, and Telekom Austria, the fixed net subsidiary of Telekom Austria Group, have extended their relationship to secure the operator's IPTV service. Building on their existing relationship, the agreement will see NDS integrate its VideoGuard encryption technology with the new platform to ensure that the operator's […]
Virgin Media has reported that revenues rose by 3.3 per cent to £980 million (E1.11bn) in the fourth quarter, adding 63,600 broadband subscribers – as superfast Internet connections prove popular. Overall the provider added 28,600 net new households in the three months to the end of December, bringing the total signed up to 4.77 million. […]
In the first six months since the launch of its new TV entertainment service in July 2009, Sky Deutschland attracted 369,000 new customers to its service, up 26 per cent compared to the second half of 2008. Net subscriber growth was 105,000 taking the total number of direct subscribers to 2.47 million on 31st December […]
Channel Five has signed a deal with CBS to make programmes available on the US network’s on-demand video website TV.com. The partnership is establishes TV.com as a player in the UK market ahead of rival Hulu.com service. TV.com users will be able to watch programmes from Five’s catch-up TV service, Demand Five, shortly after they […]
Liberty Global reported fourth-quarter revenues up 19 per cent from a year earlier to $3 billion, helped by solid growth in its digital TV and broadband customer bases. Revenues rose 7 per cent and operating profit rose to $469 million from $225 million a year earlier, and the net result improved to a profit of […]