Virgin Media grew its turnover 5.7 per cent to £982 million (€1.13bn) in the first quarter and ARPU was up 2.6 per cent YonY to £46.16 (though this was down on Q4 2010). However the company added only 20,200 new subscribers, 47 per cent down on Q1 of 2010, and the TV service added just […]
Virgin Media is to begin testing internet speeds of up to 1.5Gb in east London. Using Virgin Media’s unique cable network, the trials will begin this month in partnership with four companies in the vicinity of Old Street in London, dubbed the ‘Silicon Roundabout’. If successful the 1.5Gb download and 150Mb upload service will be […]
US satellite broadband providers — Dish Network, EchoStar Technologies, ViaSat/Wildblue Communications and Hughes Network Systems – have told the Federal Communications Commission that they should be allowed to participate in the Connect America Fund. The FCC is reforming the Universal Service Fund, which has been supporting traditional phone, to subsidising broadband in unserved areas via […]
Seventy-four per cent of all UK households now have the Internet at home according to Ofcom research, an increase of three percentage points from 2009. And the amount of time adult Internet users say they spend on the Internet has increased from 12.2 hours in 2009 to 14.2 hours in 2010. 12-15 year olds now […]
European regulators are launching an investigation into telcos and other providers data traffic management practices. The European Commission says it accepts some traffic management is necessary to avoid congestion on networks but digital agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes, is set to announce the regulatory investigation with a view to establishing new rules to safeguard net neutrality. […]
Total US pay TV subscribers remained flat, growing by only some 148,000 during 2010, a 0.15 per cent annual growth rate, indicating no current trend toward video cord cutting/shaving, according to In-Stat. “A substantial portion of pay TV subscribers, however, exhibit similar characteristics to video cord cutting households,” says Keith Nissen, Principal Analyst. “It is […]
Open IPTV platform YouView has published its final core technical specification for launch and announced further device partners. A single technical document, detailing the core YouView interoperability specification for launch is now available on the YouView web site. The YouView Core Technical Specification references the Digital Television Group’s D-Book 72 and provides a set of […]
The Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill in New Zealand has been passed, despite strong opposition. The law will come into effect on September 1st and repeals Section 92A of the Copyright Act. The legislation seeks to tackle illegal file sharing, with illegal sharers receiving warnings for their first two infringements. A third infringement will […]
KIT digital has partnered with LiveU, a specialist in video-over-cellular solutions, to provide KIT digital’s clients with HD-quality live video streaming capabilities from a battery-operated wireless backpack. The solution, KIT LivePro Unwired, uses wireless backpack technology provided by LiveU to allow content producers to take advantage of the existing and growing wireless 3G/4G and Wi-Fi […]
Fujitsu has revealed plans to build a £2 billion (€2.24bn) high-speed broadband network covering 5 million rural homes in Britain. The Japanese group wants to build and operate a superfast broadband internet network based on optical fibre, and has an agreement with TalkTalk and Virgin to use it. BT is currently constructing a £2.5 billion […]