Paris-based satellite operator Eutelsat says it does not fear competition from fibre-based ultra high-speed broadband services, because it targets different consumers, Eutelsat CEO Michel de Rosen told La Tribune. In France, for example, there are still three million homes without digital terrestrial TV (DTT) coverage due to topography or proximity to borders, he said. As […]
Vodafone is entering the Spanish IPTV market with the launch in the last quarter of this year of an offer in direct competition with Telefonica-controlled Movistar TV (formerly Imagenio), the leading IPTV player with 750,000 subscribers. Meanwhile, Vodafone Deutschland plans to launch an IPTV service at the IFA trade fair this weekend, according to the […]
Net Neutrality is, ironically, a matter on which nearly no one is neutral. When the Web was young the idea of equal access for all content and service providers was logical and easily accommodated. Then came video, which was magnitudes more bandwidth hungry than what had gone before. But there was still no question of […]
BT mustered a ‘reasonably pleased’ to describe sign-ups for its Sky Sport service. Unconfirmed reports put the number at only 60,000 despite the heavy marketing. Their campaign has been met by an even heavier one from Sky emphasising the value of taking all four Sky Sports channels. Strangely, Gavin Patterson, head of BT retail, claimed […]
Multi Service Support Euromedia Feature May 2010 THE SERVICE PROVIDER WORLD IS CHANGING RAPIDLY, BUT WHAT ABOUT THE SOFTWARE GLUE THAT BINDS OPERATORS SERVICES TOGETHER? STEVE GOLD SPOKE TO SOME OF TODAY’S MOVERS AND SHAKERS IN THE MARKETPLACE TO WORK OUT HOW THIS IMPORTANT SEGMENT IS EVOLVING TO MEET THE DIVERSE NEEDS OF MULTI-SERVICE SERVICE […]
NTT Docomo has reached an agreement with NextWave Wireless to acquire the remaining 65 per cent equity interest in PacketVideo, a subsidiary of NextWave Wireless, for $111.6 million, turning PacketVideo into a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT Docomo. Docomo acquired a 35-per cent stake in PacketVideo from NextWave in July 2009. Docomo aims to […]
Two-thirds of French respond to ‘3 strikes’ Around two-thirds of the French say they would stop downloading copyrighted material from illegal sites if threatened with the penalties included in the country’s Hadopi (‘3 strikes). The finding was part of a survey by Ifop for the recording industry association SNEP, which was interested in knowing how […]
In a recent analysis of the Asia-Pacific broadband market, SNL Kagan found that despite recessionary pressures, the region’s broadband subscriber base grew 17.7 per cent to 181.4 million in 2009 compared to 154.1 million in 2008, with a household penetration of 22.2 per cent at year-end 2009. SNL Kagan forecasts the market will continue to […]
By a party-line split vote of 3 to 2 the FCC has moved toward giving itself the authority to regulate the transmission component of broadband service, a power the commission's Democratic majority believes is central to expanding the availability of broadband. The next step is invite public comment on the proposal to overturn a previous […]
Broadband subscription growth took an upswing during the first quarter of 2010, supported in part by healthy DSL growth in every region, strong fibre rollouts in Asia and aggressive IPTV service offerings. Figures from the Broadband Forum show that global broadband lines now top 484 million lines (484,788,597), representing a 3.12 per cent growth in […]