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Discovery Joins Comcast Online Trial

US reports say Discovery Communications is the latest company joining Comcast’s OnDemand Online Trial. Until now Discovery has resisted, its' main concern about making its material widely available online has been the risk of cannibalizing its existing business and upsetting the cable operators that provide its bread and butter. In July, CBS became the first […]

August 14, 2009

TDC TV subs up

Danish telco TDC reported 1.195 million TV customers at the end of June, up 6.3% year-on-year. The figures include analogue and digital cable subscribers of its YouSee cable operation and IPTV subscribers. TDC had 1.292 million retail broadband customers at the end of the first half, up 9.5% year-on-year. Wholesale broadband customers numbered 118,000, down […]

August 14, 2009

TDC TV subs up

Danish telco TDC reported 1.195 million TV customers at the end of June, up 6.3% year-on-year. The figures include analogue and digital cable subscribers of its YouSee cable operation and IPTV subscribers. TDC had 1.292 million retail broadband customers at the end of the first half, up 9.5% year-on-year. Wholesale broadband customers numbered 118,000, down […]

August 14, 2009

OTT $11bn by 2012

A new global report from MRG shows how OTT (Over-the-Top) video services will offer new opportunities for IPTV & Cable Operators and media owners to expand their reach through TV-centric open Internet services. Revenues in 2012 should exceed $11 billion, with Internet Set-top Box (ISTB) penetration (including game consoles) exceeding 57 million. Besides cost containment […]

August 14, 2009

PA Consulting investigates future spectrum demand

Following a nine month study, PA Consulting Group has completed a report for UK's Ofcom to predict any potential pressure on spectrum availability across the UK over the next 15 to 20 years. Spectrum is a finite and valuable resource, and PA's report shows both supply and demand for spectrum under a number of different […]

August 12, 2009

PA Consulting investigates future spectrum demand

Following a nine month study, PA Consulting Group has completed a report for UK's Ofcom to predict any potential pressure on spectrum availability across the UK over the next 15 to 20 years. Spectrum is a finite and valuable resource, and PA's report shows both supply and demand for spectrum under a number of different […]

August 12, 2009

US cable values triple play at $35bn

The cable industry has valued the benefits of bundled voice, video and data to consumers at $35 billion a year and, increasingly, subscribers are taking advantage of those benefits. That came in comments to the FCC in its annual assessment of the state of video competition. That $35 billion is a combination of “enormous cost […]

August 3, 2009

Virgin speeds in slow market

UK Broadband customers received average speeds of 4.1 megabits per second in April, well below the 7.1 Mb/s rate advertised by Internet service providers, according to an Ofcom survey. Virgin Media came out on top, with customers on its “up to 10 Mb/s” cable broadband service experiencing average speeds of 8.1 to 8.7 MB/s, more […]

July 29, 2009

Arqiva VOD service through Kangaroo

Arqiva is to buy the technology behind the defunct broadband TV venture Project Kangaroo and launch a video-on-demand service of its own. The company is now talking with broadcasters and content providers to stock up for the service. Arqiva said the new video-on-demand service would appear in the coming months and feature “both free-to-air and […]

July 29, 2009

Microsoft and Yahoo search tie up

Microsoft and Yahoo have confirmed an agreement on a search and advertising deal. Microsoft will now power Yahoo search while Yahoo will become the exclusive worldwide relationship sales force for both companies' premium search. This will give the two companies a combined market share in the US search ad market of about 30%. Google would […]

July 24, 2009