Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB) has reported the Group’s unaudited consolidated financial results for the full year 2010. Full year revenue reached $356.6 million, to which the newly acquired broadband business (Pirelli Broadband Solutions, renamed as “ADB Broadband”, or “ADBB”) contributed $20 million. It has been consolidated with the ADB Group core business for the month […]
A US District judge has ruled that Internet TV service ivi is breaking the law by offering live streams of network and cable television. ivi, which offers online broadcasts of 55 stations in the Los Angeles, Chicago and New York area for under $5 a month, was ordered to cease operations immediately as a result […]
Kabel Deutschland Holding AG (KDH), Germany’s biggest cable operator, has sustained its dynamic growth over the first nine months of its financial year 2010/2011 (April 1st through December 31st, 2010). “We are implementing our strategy on schedule and achieving our objectives. The trend towards Premium TV services is gaining momentum, and demand for high performance […]
By the end of 2012, South Korea intends to connect every home in the country to the Internet at one gigabit per second. That would be a tenfold increase from what is already the fastest in the world and more than 200 times as fast as the average household set-up in the US. A pilot […]
Neelie Kroes, European Commission VP for the Digital Agenda, has issued an urgent call to twenty one EU countries to rapidly introduce all the legislative measures necessary to allow the pan-EU deployment of mobile satellite services that could be used for high-speed Internet, mobile television and radio or emergency communications to EU consumers and businesses. […]
Swedish private equity firm EQT has received around five bids in the range of €2 billion to €2.5 billion on its auction of German cable operator Kabel Baden-Wuerttemberg according to reports, in a potential disappointment to EQT on price. The bidders are said to include US media conglomerate Liberty Global, and private equity firms CVC […]
The US House of Representatives has voted to overturn the FCC’s proposed rules barring ISPs from blocking legal content but do allow certain rationing of downloading. The vote would block funds to implement rules proposed by the Federal Communications Commission in December. The measure had been added as an amendment to a sweeping spending bill […]
Arris has revealed that its Whole Home Solution Media Gateway will be offered by Oregon-based MSO BendBroadband throughout its network. The Arris Whole Home solution consists of the Arris Media Gateway, a converged multi-services platform that provides integrated multimedia entertainment to the entire home, and Arris Media Players connected to each television. The Whole Home […]
Cable TV and telcos that provide subscription services say industry gains in the fourth quarter returned to normal following a spate of cancellations spurred by the end of discounted pricing. Comcast announced its loss of 135,000 video subscribers was about a third less than expected as it held onto more customers with better programming, and […]
South America’s main cable MSO ‘Net’ wrapped 2010 with a total of 4.2 million pay-TV subscribers, representing a 14 per cent growth year-on-year (and a year ago growth was a sluggish 3.5 per cent). Net claims to be the operator with the largest number of HDTV subscribers in the region although does not break out […]