Virgin Media has claimed it can outpace BT on broadband speeds, reach parity with Sky in the range of its programming and has no pressing need to sell assets, so says CEO Neil Berkett laying out growth plans and forecasting a profitable future. Virgin Media secured an advantage over BT last year by offering customers […]
Americans who play online games generated $2.8 billion in subscription revenue in 2009, and stand to pay an annual $5 billion in game subscriptions by 2015, market research provider Pike & Fischer projects in a new report. The number of online gaming paid subscribers, which totalled approximately 19.4 million at the end of last year, […]
Responding to civil liberties concerns, the European Commission has said it will “closely monitor” a planned UK trial of deep packet inspection technology by Virgin Media. In November Virgin announced plans to look at the traffic of 40 per cent, or 1.6 million, of its subscribers, to gauge the level of illegal file-sharing on its […]
The Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement, an industry group formed last year to promote innovation in TV and cross-platform audience measurement, has confirmed the addition of six new members: Gannett, PepsiCo, Belo, ConAgra, Hearst Television and Microsoft. CIMM now has a total of 21 members. In addition to announcing the new members, CIMM unveiled the […]
During 2009 an average of 8.8 million new broadband subscribers worldwide signed up for service each month. By 2013, In-Stat forecasts that the number of global broadband subscribers will surpass 1 billion. Research by In-Stat found the following: – As of December 2009, there were 578 million worldwide broadband subscribers, an increase of 99 million […]
The French government will provide E2 billion of soft loans to improve the country’s high-speed access, as part of a national loan programme to boost the economy through investment in infrastructure. Prime Minister Francois Fillon said the government would make a series of low-interest loans to telecommunications groups, to encourage them to develop fibre-optic networks […]
Deutsche Telekom has applied to the German Federal Network Agency to approve the charges for use of three elements of its fibre-optic infrastructure. The Group is offering access in multi-function cabinets for a monthly unit price. Telecommunications companies who use slots in the multi-function cabinet pay a corresponding portion of the unit price. Niek Jan […]
The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) has unsurprisingly supported the Federal Communications Commission's recognition that its Internet policies should be subject to 'reasonable network management' and urged the Commission to continue to allow the industry to establish appropriate management techniques to meet evolving consumer needs. ATIS cited the ongoing work of its Next Generation […]
Britain has been ranked 26th in the world by Akamai's 'The State of the Internet' report, with an average download speed of just 3.5 Mbps South Korea has the fastest broadband by a large margin, recording a 14.6 Mbps average speed, while Japan occupies the second spot with an average speed of 7.9 Mbps. Sweden […]
A report by CCS Insight predicts explosive growth for Mobile Broadband across Europe. Despite varying environments across Europe's five major markets, the one common factor is growth, underpinned by HSPA and HSPA+ Mobile Broadband technology. According to CCS the European Mobile Broadband market will see subscriber and revenue numbers nearly double by 2011: Total Mobile […]