According to German press reports the federal compeition authorities are set to block any putitive merger of the country's major operators. There has been much specualtion that the major three networks, KDG, Unity and Kabel BW – all owned by private equity and all derived from the former Deutsche Telekom network – want to 're-merge' […]
Comcast chairman and CEO Brian Roberts told NCTA in Washington that cable programming online could be a boon for distributors who are smart enough to figure out how to monetize it. “I think it’s a friend, not a foe. It is powering our broadband business, one of the fastest growing parts of Comcast. For programmers, […]
Viewers should see the same commercials during television shows on the Web as they do on traditional TV, Time Warner Cable Chief Operating Officer Landel Hobbs said. At sites like Hulu and others, shows are seen with limited, short commercial breaks, compared with more frequent and lengthier groups of ads on TV. Time Warner Cable […]
Cable Europe Labs has granted EuroDOCSIS 3.0 certification status to the Thomson TCM470 cable modem and EuroDOCSIS 3.0 / EuroPacketCable 1.5 certification status to EMTAs from Ambit (EVM3200), Cisco (EPC3212) and Thomson (THG570) following a Certification Board meeting in London. The Certification Board also granted EuroDOCSIS 2.0 certification status to cable modems from Motorola (SB5101NE) […]
From David Del Valle in Madrid Spain’s cable company ONO has named Rosalia Portela, former Telefonica executive, as CEO replacing the Richard Alden as part of a far-reaching management reshuffle and reorganisation of the company. The appointment will be formally made in May at the shareholders meeting. Portela, a former director of Telefonica, was reportedly […]
From Sotires Eleftheriou in Paris Orange has held a hastily organised press conference in Paris to respond to the recent attacks by other operators Vivendi and Iliad (Free). "The aim is to set the record straight", said Louis-Pierre Wenes, Orange France Deputy General Manager. "We have been subject to attacks for several weeks now, hardly […]
From Nick Snow in Berlin Figures released at Cable Europe’s annual Cable Congress indicate a strong increase in industry revenues and market penetration, as growth in cable services defied signs of a downturn in other parts of the European economy. Volumes among cable customers remain robust, with double-digit European growth In 2008 in digital TV, […]
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 […]
Jupiter Telecommunications (J:COM), the largest multiple system operator in Japan based on the number of customers served, has announced that the total subscribing households as of February 28th, 2009 served by J:COM's 24 consolidated franchises reached approximately 3.18 million, up 478,700, or 17.7 per cent since February 29th, 2008.
From Nick Snow in Berlin Tony Ball, chairman of KDG, got the 50th Cable Congress underway by cheerfully admitting he had spent much of his career (at Sky) trying to make cable fail. Now, of course, he’s changed his mind and is particularly proud KDG has invested over E1bn in its network – with no […]