Netflix has released April data for its ISP Speed Index, a monthly update on which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide the best prime-time Netflix streaming experience. This month, Netflix included nine countries in Asia to the index as the company start adding countries where we launched service earlier this year. Those countries include: Hong Kong, […]
From October, broadband providers in the UK must make sure adverts for their products are very clear about costs and contract lengths, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled. ASA research suggests many people find it difficult to make sense of current adverts. More than 80 per cent were unable to calculate the total cost […]
Incognito Software Systems, a global provider of solutions for communication service providers, has released its 2016 Incognito Broadband Consumer Quality of Experience (QoE) Survey, which explores subscribers’ level of satisfaction with their broadband service provider. Although the survey finds that only 34 per cent of subscribers are likely to recommend their provider, the results suggest […]
Orange Spain has reversed 27-months of declining revenues and has significantly increased its subscribers. In the first quarter of the year, the company managed gained 1.8 per cent in revenues to €1.189 billion. By comparison, in the last quarter of 2015, Orange had a 0.7 per cent decline in revenues and a fall of 1.7 […]
DISH Network has reported revenue totaling $3.79 billion (€3.33bn) for the quarter ending March 31st 2016, compared to $3.72 billion for the corresponding period in 2015. Subscriber-related revenue for the US satellite pay-TV broadcaster increased to $3.78 billion from $3.7 billion in the year-ago period. In the first quarter, DISH activated approximately 657,000 gross new […]
CityFibre made a first profit as the fibre broadband group benefits from demand for alternatives to BT’s Openreach network. The AIM listed company builds and operates fibre optic networks for customers such as Vodafone to help connect mobile calls and provide broadband. Adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation, moved into profit in the […]
Com Hem, the Swedish telco, has reported Q1 revenue totalled SEK 1,276m (1,228), up 3.9 per cent. The number of unique consumer subscribers rose 9,000 to a total of 920,000. There was a continued strong volume growth in broadband, up 11,000 to 669,000 RGUs. Digital-TV RGU’s totalled 635,000, affected by price adjustments in the quarter, […]
UK consumers can now benefit from faster broadband connections after BT launched its new BT Infinity 1 service offering speeds up to 52Mbps, which the telco says is a faster standard fibre service than Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin. The new BT Infinity 1 up to 52Mbps service offers customers a faster connection, allowing them to […]
Research from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech on the home services market – covering broadband, fixed landline and paid television – reveals a positive outlook for TalkTalk. The provider’s share of new customers in the overall home services market increased by 3.2 percentage points on the last quarter, when consumer data hacks saw around 250,000 of their […]
Netflix has released March data from its ISP Speed Index – its monthly update on which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide the best prime-time Netflix streaming experience. Back in December, Netflix announced a years-long effort called complexity-based encoding that allowed them to boost streaming performance of TV shows and movies while using less bandwidth. At […]