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Vietnam Cable Television opts for new content protection solution from Conax

Conax, a provider of security solutions for digital content distribution, has entered a contract with state owned Vietnam Cable Television. VCTV is a MSO with 17 Vietnam cable operators and over a half million analogue subscribers. Conax will deliver a new content protection solution to VCTV’s subsidiary VTV, the second largest cable operator in Vietnam, […]

December 2, 2010

Bridge Technologies trains next cohort of VideoBRIDGE distribution partners

Bridge Technologies will host another in its series of Train-the-Trainers courses for business partners and distributors this December. The BridgeTech Academy series of training courses is designed to help digital and media TV operators understand and master monitoring and service quality control issues, and the Train-the-Trainers courses equip Bridge Technologies distributors with the expertise to […]

December 2, 2010

SmarDTV for Com Hem

SmarDTV, a Kudelski Group company, has confirmed that Com Hem has selected SmarDTV to launch CI Plus products in its network in Sweden. Com Hem is one of the leading distributors of TV, broadband and telephony in Sweden and has more than 40 per cent of Swedish households (1.76 M households) connected to their cable […]

December 2, 2010

Virgin Media launches TiVo platform

UK quad-play operator Virgin Media has unveiled details of its Virgin Media TV powered by TiVo next-generation entertainment platform. The new service is aimed at revolutionising the way people find and enjoy their favourite content. An easy-to-use graphical interface will combine the live TV schedule with catch-up TV, a huge library of on-demand programming and […]

December 1, 2010From Colin Mann in London

FCC readies Net rules

  FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has proposed network neutrality rules for the planned commissioners’ vote on December 21st. The meeting agenda notice, issued yesterday, says: “An Order adopting basic rules of the road to preserve the open Internet as a platform for innovation, investment, competition, and free expression. These rules would protect consumers’ and innovators’ […]

December 1, 2010

FCC may arbitrate Comcast, Level 3 dispute

Comcast is willing to have the Federal Communications Commission oversee negotiations with Level 3 Communications to resolve their dispute over Internet interconnection fees. “[W]e have not given up hope that Level 3 will make a reasonable business decision in the context of the parties’ overall commercial relationship… Commercial resolution is the appropriate path forward here,” […]

December 1, 2010

Comcast is Internet ‘toll booth’ says Netflix provider

Internet backbone provider Level 3 Communications says Comcast is demanding a recurring fee for transmitting internet movies and “other content” to Comcast customers, accusing the cableco of violating the FCC’s “net neutrality” principles. Comcast says Level 3 is misrepresenting the negotiations between the two companies. “Comcast is effectively putting up a toll booth at the […]

November 30, 2010

SES invests another $75m in O3b

O3b is a new satellite constellation that is promising fibre-like speeds from orbiting craft and providing broadband connectivity to “the Other 3 Billion” (O3b) of largely unconnected people and businesses either side of the Equator. SES already owns 34 per cent of O3b. SES will invest a further $75 million over the next3 years. O3b […]

November 29, 2010By Chris Forrester

German cable loses out to DTH and IPTV

The number of German TV households using cable TV has dropped from 57.6 per cent in 2005 to 52.7 per cent in 2010, according to a study by German magazine Focus. At the same time, the number of satellite TV households has grown from 41.2 per cent to 45.7 per cent and households using digital […]

November 29, 2010

Canada needs TV and telco marriage

Two of Canada’s largest companies say their marriage is the best way to keep Canadian content thriving. While regulators have not yet approved telco BCE’s  purchase of broadcaster CTV, both told a Canada parliamentary committee that their union is crucial. The companies say that without working together, neither can compete against a rapidly growing influx […]

November 29, 2010