Virgin Media has announced that the company has completed its next generation fibre optic broadband network . Virgin has been working for 18 months on increasing its network capacity and offering ultrafast broadband speeds of up to 50Mb to over 12 million homes. In an attempt to convince some of those 12 million homes to […]

Senators have voted through the 'Hadopi 2' law, which will allow judges to impose punishments on those found to have made illegal downloads. The law is a complement to the Hadopi (the internet watchdog) 1 law, setting up a new body for Internet piracy. It was originally proposed that this law would allow for the […]

The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has announced a new direction in the battle against pay-TV piracy in the Philippines. A breakthrough settlement by Turtle Cable, an infringing cable operator in Camarines Sur, is underpinned by a legally binding undertaking to refrain from broadcasting unauthorised TV programming and exclusively distribute legally authorised […]

The global demand for high-bandwidth applications will jump in the next few years as the number of households with broadband will reach around 650 million by 2013, according to research firm Parks Associates. The firm’s report 'Broadband Services: Global Outlook' warns that service providers will have to continue investing in network technologies to accommodate multiple […]

Preliminary results from IMS Research's forthcoming 2009 study on the World Market for Set-top Boxes and iDTVs has revealed that during 2008 the mantle of being the leading digital pay-TV platform was taken from DTH satellite by digital cable. According to Stephen Froehlich, a senior analyst in IMS Research's consumer electronics research group, "Digital cable […]

Frank N. Magid Associates, specialist in research-based consultation, and Metacafe, the independent online video site, have released survey results revealing consumer behaviour and preferences in online video viewing. The survey found that short professional videos are among those most regularly watched online, and well over one-third of consumers (37 per cent) who watch these clips […]

BT Ireland and UPC Ireland are being taken to court by the big four music labels Universal, Warner, Sony and EMI, over illegal downloads and file sharing. The operators have been issued with a plenary summons by the four main record labels with a hearing for both scheduled on July 6th. The case stems from […]

Canoe Ventures has cancelled plans to introduce its Community Addressable Messaging (CAM 1.0) product, citing a range of technical difficulties with the offering. The service, which was set to launch this summer, would have allowed advertisers to run one spot in 370 pre-selected, high income cable “zones” and another in the rest of the country. […]

Joost was squeezed out of the market by broadcasters setting up their own VOD channels admits Mike Volpi, who resigned as CEO. He said that in April, when Disney joined the Hulu joint venture, it became pretty clear Joost had to do something else — it is becoming a white label video provider. Explaining how […]

Many telecom companies are shifting away from traditional communications access providers and targeting the needs of a digitalised society. To this end, they have started looking for ways to not only offer Quad Play services that include fixed telephony, fixed broadband, TV and mobile communication services but also to enable end users to perform their […]