From Sotires Eleftheriou in Paris Iliad, parent company of Free, the leading French ISP and IPTV operator after Orange, has announced that 2008 was a record year, with 1.3 million new ADSL subscribers, bringing the total to 4.2 million, and a market share of 25.2 per cent, generating a hefty cash flow to enable it […]
Scandinavian pay-TV operator Viasat Broadcasting launch HD content on TV1000Play, a catch-up service on the ViasatOnDemand platform, marking the first time Scandinavian TV viewers are able to choose which movie they want to see and when they want to see it in HD quality. TV1000PlayHD is part of ViasatOnDemand’s service for customers in Sweden, Norway […]
Europe’s top antitrust official Neelie Kroes has said she will update and simplify EU rules on state aid for the information and communications technology sector to help nations roll out next-generation broadband networks. Broadband-for-all and next-generation networks are part of the European economic recovery plan. The new communication will explain in which cases and under […]
Seven Britons have been arrested in the Spanish coastal area of Orihuela for allegedly distributing pirated television signals to more than 15,000 clients, most of them also British. The Guardia Civil made the arrests in several urbanisations on March 17, with telecommunications and computer material also being seized. The group allegedly distributed the signal from […]
The BBC Trust has sanctioned a 27 per cent increase in the corporation’s online budget, to more than £145 million per year, over the next three years. BBC web ventures will benefit from a £30.7 million increase in the BBC Online budget, a 27 per cent increase over its current £114.4 million -a-year budget over […]
Japan is considering paying 20,000 yen (E155) to people who trade in their analogue televisions for new digital sets, Chief Cabinet Secretary Takeo Kawamura has revealed. "We will look into this from all angles, including as part of economic stimulus, Kawamura said. The junior party in the ruling coalition, New Komeito, has proposed a 1 […]
Cisco has announced its intent to acquire privately held Pure Digital Technologies. San Francisco-based Pure Digital, creator of the best-selling Flip Video brand is a specialist in developing consumer-friendly video solutions with mass-market appeal. “The acquisition of Pure Digital is key to Cisco's strategy to expand our momentum in the media-enabled home and to capture […]
Network video processing specialist RGB Networks has expanded its presence in the Asia Pacific telecommunications industry with the introduction of its Modular Video Processor (MVP) to the region. The MVP is RGB’s first product built specifically to meet the advanced video delivery needs of telecom carriers. The MVP is a complete IPTV solution that enables […]
The UK government's suggestion that the BBC should be part of the drive to make broadband universal in the UK would distort markets and distract the broadcaster from its main purpose in making programmes, BSkyB has suggested in its submission to the Digital Britain review headed by Lord Carter, the communications minister, BSkyB said the […]
From Nick Snow in Berlin The finance panel here at Cable Congress was a frank but fairly upbeat affair. It is no secret that with most MSOs controlled by highly leveraged private equity capex is going to be scarce. John Hahn of Providence (which has major positions in KDG and ONO) confirmed as much, “investment […]