Sky Deutschland and Tele Columbus have agreed to expand their existing cooperation and make the Sky packages available in an attractive Triple Play offering. With this, the Tele Columbus customers have easy access to Sky programming: the joint offer comprises a 6 MBit Internet-and telephone flat rate, Tele Columbus basic digital TV package and the […]
We have a widget on the advanced-television.com news service that calculates the most read story over the last five days. It is clear that if the words connected TV feature in the story it will rank high and if the name Google TV is included it will shoot to the top. This fascination is divided […]
Eutelsat used the opening day of Washington Satellite 2011 to confirm a three-year order for capacity on its giant Ka-Sat craft. The deal is with Germany’s Sat Internet Services which has contracted for three-years of capacity on the satellite for Eutelsat’s Tooway broadband-by-satellite product. Eutelsat says there is a significant market opportunity for satellite broadband […]
The UK’s major ISPs are to reveal how and why they slow down user connections to maintain their network performance in order to “help customers understand why they need to vary connection speeds.” The ISPs hope the move will help stave off regulation enforcing net neutrality. The code of practice has been drawn up by […]
In what is still a young market, several technologies are vying for supremacy, but according to ABI Research the market will most likely favour hybrid solutions. In fact, many companies are already laying the foundation with standards such as P1905.1 and products featuring tri-band solutions in the works. ABI Research expects that just over 50 […]
Hamlet, celebrating its 25th anniversary year of providing excellent, practical and affordable test and measurement solutions, is launching three new products at NAB2011. Together they provide a complete range, with test tools for production and for file-based workflows, and high quality, image-critical monitors. The new DS900 test and measurement platform is a new way of […]
Conax has announced that Mostelecom, a subsidiary of National Telecommunications (NTK), and has entered a contract with the content protection specialist. With the new partnership, Conax will provide advanced chipset pairing and CI+ technology to protect the content delivered by NCN (National Cable Networks) to more than two million subscribers in Moscow, covering 95 districts.
UK set top maker Pace PLC has reported its full year’s for 2010 with a 17.4 per cent year-on-year increase in sales to £1.331 billion with organic (extracting acquisitions) revenue up 9.7 per cent. Adjusted EBITA is up 35.6 per cent to £103.6 million (2009: £76.4m) with organic business contributing £94.3 million and acquisitions £9.3 […]
The delayed launch of open IPTV platform YouView will result in a product that has been worth waiting for, according to the operation’s CEO, Richard Halton. He told delegates at the DTG Summit that the platform had been proved ready and would undergo extensive trials by the end of 2011, prior to a full commercial […]
Providence Equity Partners has sold half its stake in Kabel Deutschland (KDG) on the market. The investor reduced its stake from 43.7 per cent to 22 per cent realising about €760 million for its shares. The sale is six months after the IPO when Providence sold 17 per cent of its then controlling stake. KDG, […]