Britain’s biggest broadband supplier has been accused by the BBC of 'shaping download speeds' on its cheapest package without giving users a clear warning. A customer who has signed on to an up to the 8MB package can have speed cut to below 1Mbps says the public broadcaster. BT confirmed it managed bandwidth “in order […]
Virgin Media has confirmed that its chief technology officer Howard Watson has left the company to pursue other business interests. Watson joined Telewest in 1993. When Telewest merged with NTL to form Virgin Media, he took on responsibility for technical and IT strategy, architecture, development and day-to-day operations of the company's television and broadband platforms.
Research conducted by The Nielsen Company reveals the “extreme techies” subscriber segment stream significantly more online video content, watching up to 91 minutes (1.5 hours) per week, compared to the mean of 44 minutes for all broadband viewers. Representing eight per cent of the total adult 18 and older broadband population, which equals 4.6 million […]
From Branislav Pekic in Rome Portuguese cable operator Cabovisão plans to introduce a 100 Mbps broadband offer soon, enabling it to compete more effectively with other cable operators on the triple-play front. Speaking during a press conference in Lisbon, company president, Jules Grenier, said that in six months time Cabovisão will be on the same […]
Kabel Deutschland (KDG) has posted its fiscal results for the year ended 31 March 2009, recording a 14.5 per cent rise in revenue to E1.37 billion. The German cable operator announced a record increase in EBITDA to E570.7 million, up 24.7 per cent compared with the 2007/08, exceeding the guidance of E565 million. At March […]
Time Warner is close to spinning off all of its AOL Internet business, according to several reports. Although a decision has not been finalised, executives prefer spinning off the whole division rather than a part. Since Microsoft launched a bid to take over Yahoo last year, Time Warner has attempted to find potential combinations of […]
From Colin Mann in Cologne On-demand TV server systems provider Edgeware and broadband cable networks specialist Teleste have inked a partnership and global reseller agreement under which Teleste will resell Edgeware’s video server products. Edgeware’s Orbit and Web TV Server products are pre-integrated with Teleste’s MyCast hybrid IPTV/DVB middleware. The pair suggest that with the […]
From Colin Mann in Cologne Despite much of the cable network in Germany already being upgraded to digital, industry executives have criticised the lack of clear policy surrounding analogue switch-off. Thomas Braun, President of the ANGA Association of German Cable Operators told delegates at the ANGA Cable Strategy Summit that with the networks digitised and […]
Despite threats from programmers that network DVRs violate their copyrights, Cablevision plans to begin offering its Remote Storage-DVR this summer. According to programmers the technology essentially turns their content into VOD offerings, diminishing the value of linear programming and the advertising that goes with it. What’s more, the simplicity of the network DVR will just […]
To retain customers, service providers must provide a satisfactory quality of digital video QoE for users, says Light Reading. As demand for rich media and TV content continues to grow among consumers, the delivery of digital video at an acceptable quality of experience (QoE) for the user becomes ever more important to service providers, content […]