Four months before its opening, ANGA Cable, Europe's leading Trade Fair and Congress for Cable, Broadband and Satellite is nearly fully booked. The organiser has received more than 300 exhibitor registrations – demand for floor space is higher than that of the previous year at the corresponding point in time. The registrations already account for […]
Slovak Telekom has expanded the coverage of its Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) network by 100,000 homes over the past 12 months, and now reaches over 315,000 homes in Slovakia. The FTTH network, which covers 19 cities including Banska Kosice and Bratislava, is utilised to deliver the company’s IPTV service ‘Magio TV’ and its high-speed broadband services. Slovak […]
Dish Network has introduced TV Everywhere – a unique suite of integrated products designed to maximise the convenience and ease of watching TV anytime and anywhere. “Dish Network is proud to introduce the first and only comprehensive solution for consumers to pay once for content and then remain connected to their TV everywhere,” said Ira […]
According to research from The Diffusion Group (TDG), by 2014 more than 360 million households worldwide will own the components necessary to enjoy Over-the-Top (OTT) video services on their TV, with more than half actively receiving OTT services. This and other themes are discussed in TDG's latest digital media analysis, Broadband-Enabled TV: Evolution of OTT […]
BBC is using Witbe’s quality of experience (QoE) technology to complement its existing quality of service (QoS) measurements with end-user experience data, based on actual visual clues, for the BBC.co.uk web site. Witbe robots technology continuously reproduces user behaviour on the BBC.co.uk web site, in particular on the Home page, the Weather page, the News […]
The number of wi-fi internet hotspots in the UK could treble over the next few years, driven by growing demand from iPhone users and fresh interest in community wi-fi projects. Owen Geddes, chief executive of Freerunner, a start-up wi-fi company, estimates that the UK has about 10,000 public wi-fi hotspots at present, but expects this […]
Cable Europe Labs has announced the launch of its European Middleware Initiative, a project aimed at developing a next generation middleware specification for the European cable market. The move will accelerate the development of an open middleware platform for evolving applications and services. Building scale and while upping the speed of new interactive services will […]
BT plans to fast track the roll-out of its super-fast broadband network to 10 million households by the summer of 2012, a company spokesman has confirmed. Early trials have “proved very successful and the lessons are helping us accelerate our roll-out plans,” he added. Four million homes will have access to fibre by the end […]
British consumers are lagging behind when it comes to access to the next generation super fast broadband connectivity. Data released by the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has placed the UK at number 21 out of 30 countries in terms of broadband speed. The UK ranking is below Greece, France, Portugal and Spain. […]
US households consumed approximately 3.6 zettabytes of information in 2008, according to the “How Much Information? 2009 Report on American Consumers,” released by the University of California, San Diego. One zettabyte is 1,000,000,000 trillion bytes, and total bytes consumed last year were the equivalent of the information in thick paperback novels stacked seven feet high […]