A report on consumer fixed broadband performance in the United States – Measuring Broadband America – prepared by the FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology and Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau reports “significant growth” in broadband speeds and in the uptake of these higher speeds by consumers, though results are not uniform across technologies. “Spurred […]
US cable MSO Comcast is claiming a world first with the installation of what the company believes to be the world’s first gigabit DOCSIS 3.1 modem on a customer-facing network. “The next-generation technology that will deliver gigabit Internet speeds moved from the laboratory to the living room late last month,” wrote Tony Werner, Executive Vice […]
ARRIS has confirmed that the High Court of Justice in England and Wales has conditionally sanctioned the scheme of arrangement pursuant to which ARRIS will acquire Pace plc in a $2.1 billion (€1.96bn) deal. Subject to the expiration of the mandatory waiting period with respect to the previously announced approval granted by Brazil’s completion Authority […]
Advanced video compression solutions provider Thomson Video Networks – currently backed by the private equity partner Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners – has received a binding offer from video delivery infrastructure specialist Harmonic to acquire 100 per cent of the company for $75 million (€69m). The combined company would establish Harmonic with clear market share […]
Internet users in Germany will soon be able to choose which modem or router to use for their broadband connection. The German government has abolished ISP locking. Until now some network operators approved only their own routers or modems on connections they provided. As a result, users had to make do without certain functions and […]
Qwilt, a provider of online video delivery and open video caching solutions, has announced that MyRepublic, an ultra-fast Internet service provider in Singapore and New Zealand, has chosen Qwilt’s open caching solution to help boost network capacity and improve the quality OTT video service delivery. Upon deploying Qwilt’s open caching solution, MyRepublic was able to […]
Communications technology specialist ARRIS Group has confirmed that the US Department of Justice has closed its investigation, without condition, under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 for ARRIS’s proposed $2.1 billion (€1.96bn) acquisition of digital TV and broadband technology solutions provider Pace plc. ARRIS and Pace have previously received the required clearances from regulators […]
A report from the Media and Services UX (MSX) group at Strategy Analytics has investigated consumer awareness and interest in, and drivers and barriers to adoption of, specific use case scenarios for the Internet of Things (IoT) consumer sector. While consumer awareness is currently low, interest is high particularly in solutions that help to solve […]
Parks Associates has published the results of its consumer research project Connected Consumer in Europe, which surveyed broadband households in the UK, Germany, Spain, and France to track adoption and future purchase plans of IoT, smart home, and connected entertainment solutions. The project found that approximately 9 per cent of these Western European broadband households […]
Liberty Global has selected the ARRIS Touchstone TG2492 Gateway for widescale deployment across the Liberty footprint. The TG2492 will deliver high-speed broadband and advanced streaming video services to Liberty’s customers throughout the world. With connection speeds of up to 1Gbps and the latest 802.11ac Wi-Fi technology, ARRIS says its TG2492 offers a scalable platform for […]