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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]