Advanced Television

Broadband

DOCSIS 3.0 to drive revenue for CMTS

“Marketing and perception are significant drivers for sales of access infrastructure equipment, especially for cable operators,” said Tam Dell’Oro, Founder of Dell’Oro Group. “While telecom operators are upgrading access networks with VDSL and PON to enable new services such as TV over broadband, Cable operators are upgrading for much different reasons. Cable’s TV service is […]

August 6, 2008

Ono grows

Ono added 41,000 new net clients on to its TV service during Q2, with 31,000 for broadband and 14,500 for the telephony area. As of June 30th the operator had 1,052,000 television subscribers, 16.4 per cent more than a year ago. Ono’s triple play offering the operator also took a step forward with 619,000 clients, […]

August 6, 2008

Cablevision strong

James Nolan, chief executive, said he planned to meet with shareholders to close the gap between Cablevision's intrinsic value and current market value. The Dolan family is the controlling shareholder of Cablevision and has tried to take the company private several times in recent years. Cablevision earned $98.3 million compared with $317.4 million in the […]

August 4, 2008

Virgin, Perform sports e-player

e-Player will be made available to digital publishers in the UK and embedded into websites to deliver a range of sports highlights and video clips, updated daily. The multi-channel player offers selected highlights from Virgin Media's Barclays Premier League and Coca-Cola Football League match content, as well as a portfolio of sports channels from Perform's […]

August 4, 2008

Telefonica beats forecasts

Telefónica estimates its Imagenio IPTV added 22,513 new subscribers, down on the 32,307 recorded in the same period in 2007, and 65,471 in the first six months of 2008. This brings the subscriber base to 575,558, a year-on-year increase of 27.9%

August 4, 2008

FT steady

Didier Lombard, France Telecom's chief executive, said the company continued to eye acquisitions in emerging markets but they would be small. The company benefited from the roll-out of new “triple-play” high-speed internet, digital television and internet telephone services. It also saw improvements in its Spanish and UK mobile operations, as customers with contracts replace those […]

August 4, 2008

Top three UK ISPs account for 65% of illegal downloads

The three ISPs were part of a deal struck last week with the government and the BPI that aims to tackle illegal file sharing. The six ISPs that signed up agreed to issue customers caught downloading illegally with warning letters

August 4, 2008

BT profit slump

Revenue rose 3 per cent to £5.18 billion, from £5.03 billion with growth driven by major corporate customers. Ian Livingston, chief executive of BT attempted to reassure the market, saying that the company’s full year guidance remains unchanged.

August 1, 2008

499m broadband connections by 2012

Five countries exceeded 60 per cent broadband penetration into the home in 2007 and this is expected to grow to 17 countries by 2012. The five countries are Canada, Netherlands, Switzerland, South Korea and Hong Kong.

August 1, 2008

499m broadband connections by 2012

Five countries exceeded 60 per cent broadband penetration into the home in 2007 and this is expected to grow to 17 countries by 2012. The five countries are Canada, Netherlands, Switzerland, South Korea and Hong Kong.

August 1, 2008