The quarterly variations in the pace of US traditional multichannel erosion offered slight improvement in the second quarter of 2021 without fundamentally altering the longer-term trajectory, according to Kagan, a media research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence. Losses to cable, telco and satellite video services slowed from the year-ago period to 1.5 million and […]
Findings from Leichtman Research Group indicate that the largest cable and wireline phone providers in the US – representing about 96 per cent of the market – acquired about 890,000 net additional broadband Internet subscribers in Q2 2021, compared to a pro forma gain of about 1,260,000 subscribers in Q2 2020. These top broadband providers […]
Findings from Leichtman Research Group indicate that the largest pay-TV providers in the US – representing about 95 per cent of the market – lost about 1,230,000 net video subscribers in Q2 2021, compared to a pro forma net loss of about 1,505,000 in Q2 2020. The top pay-TV providers now account for about 77.6 […]
Jackson Energy Authority (JEA) and Harmonic have teamed up to launch JEA’s fully hosted headend management and video streaming solution for cable, broadband and telecommunications providers. Powered by Harmonic’s VOS360 cloud platform, JEA’s E+ Premier managed headend solution provides secure signal processing and delivery of MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and adaptive bit rate (ABR) signals to MVPDs […]
Liberty Global’s Belgian service provider Telenet is to stop subscribers skipping ads on recorded and catch-up shows. It says that in response to requests from Belgian broadcasters, it is to force viewers to sit through one minute of adverts before any recordings of content from DPG Media’s VTM and SBS’s Play channels from September. At […]
UK multiplay telco Virgin Media O2 has added one-and-a-half million homes to its gigabit network, meaning that more than half of its footprint can now access hyperfast broadband speeds. As part of the gigabit switch-on, Virgin Media O2 has upgraded its network in locations across the UK, with residents in towns and cities such as […]
Millions of people in rural England will get access to the fastest broadband speeds on the market as part of a £5 billion (€5.8bn) plan to level up Internet access across the UK. The UK government’s Project Gigabit fund to upgrade digital infrastructure in hard-to-reach areas will accelerate the country’s recovery from covid, fire up […]
The total pay-TV services revenue in China is set to decline at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 0.5 per cent from $32.9 billion (€27.8bn) in 2020 to $32.1 billion in 2025, due to the growing preference for OTT video streaming services and falling pay-TV average revenue per user (ARPU), according to GlobalData, a […]
Research from UK multiplay telco Virgin Media O2 has revealed that the majority (70 per cent) of house-hunters would be prepared to walk away from their preferred home, or not make an offer at all, if its mobile connectivity isn’t up to scratch. Good broadband connectivity is also crucial, with 35 per cent of Brits […]
Trade body the 25GS-PON MSA Group, which brings together major operators along with leading system and component vendors to promote and accelerate the development and deployment of 25 Gigabit Symmetrical Passive Optical Network (25GS-PON) technology, has added 17 new member organisations, including service providers Proximus, OptiComm, and INEA, as well as CableLabs, the cable industry’s […]