By the end of 2019, almost 85 per cent of UK households will have signed up to bundles of at least two telecom and media services from the same provider. According to a multiplay services forecast by CCS Insight, multiplay services will continue to disrupt the market. Telecom and media companies will be forced to […]
Verimatrix, the specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for digital TV services, has partnered with Divitel, a provider of digital media solutions, to develop a joint solution that integrates the Video Content Authority System (VCAS) for Internet TV with the Divitel Operating Center (DOC). Dutch ISP Solcon has deployed the integrated solution to extend the […]
Citing substantial harm to competition and consumers, DISH Network has petitioned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deny the proposed merger of Charter Communications and Time Warner Cable. The petition to deny outlines, among other things, the critical role that high-speed broadband plays in the video industry and the potential for the merger significantly to […]
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BT has responded to Ofcom’s Digital Communications Review, setting out how regulation can help Britain secure its digital future and maintain its position as the leading digital economy in the G20. In its submission, the telco rejects demands for its Openreach network division to be separated from the company and calls for a level playing […]
Mai Fyfield, Sky’s Chief Strategy Officer, has called on regulator Ofcom to refer dominant telco BT’s ownership of its Openreach national network to the Competition and Markets Authority, suggesting that Openreach’s ownership structure means that companies that compete with BT, such as Sky and TalkTalk, cannot work with Openreach on innovations such as fibre to […]
Seeking to differentiate itself from competing operators such as BT and Sky, UK quad-play operator Virgin Media has announced a new standard in ultrafast connectivity with the launch of Vivid 200Mbps broadband speed. Vivid will be used to brand all ultrafast broadband speeds and services of 100Mbps and above from Virgin Media. This week, the […]
Italy’s media and entertainment industry will be worth €34.8 billion in 2019, up from €29.1 billion in 2014, with a 3.6 per cent Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR), according to the Entertainment & Media Outlook in Italy 2015-2019 from PwC. Of this total, €7.1 billion will come from advertising (CAGR 0.2 per cent), while €27.7 […]
Scores for network performance and reliability have improved, the number of U.S. households connected to digital service has grown and satisfaction has increased across wireline offerings, according to three new US wireline studies: the J.D. Power 2015 U.S. Residential Television Service Provider Satisfaction Study; the J.D. Power 2015 U.S. Residential Internet Service Provider Satisfaction Study; […]
Content delivery network services specialist Akamai’s latest State of the Internet Report – which provides insight into key global statistics such as connection speeds, broadband adoption metrics and notable Internet disruptions – finds that global average connection speed increased 17 per cent year-over-year; in Europe, Sweden led at 16.1 Mbps. The global average peak connection […]