AOL will this week unveil the early stages of a plan to become the Internet's largest provider of original content within two years. As the company prepares to spin off from Time Warner by the end of the year, Tim Armstrong, AOL chief executive and a former Google executive, is trying to identify market areas […]
According to The Diffusion Group, demand for Over-the-Top (OTT) broadband video services is comprised of distinct consumer segments driven by very different needs. “While Over-the-Top video delivery is widely discussed, it remains poorly understood,” notes Michael Greeson, author of TDG’s latest report. “The dominant understanding of OTT is based on a conceptual error, a category […]
About 73 per cent of Comcast and Time Warner Cable subscribers surveyed said TV Everywhere services — which promise access to a wealth of video online for no extra charge — are an “excellent” or “good” idea, according to research firm Solutions Research Group. However, SRG said, a significant number of respondents also expressed skepticism […]
Jupiter Telecommunications (J:COM) the largest MSO in Japan has announced that the total subscribing households as of June 30th, 2009 served by J:COM's 23 consolidated franchises reached approximately 3.22 million, up 459,600, or 16.7 per cent since June 30, 2008. Combined revenue generating units (RGUs) for cable television, high-speed Internet access and telephony services reached […]
Witbe, a specialist in end-to-end supervision and quality of experience monitoring of video, voice and data out of the STB and modem, has launched 'Witbe Lab', a solution dedicated to the specific needs of video, voice and data services test and validation. Witbe Lab is a complete and integrated solution allowing multi-service test scenarios to […]
Markus Schmid, CEO and President of the Tele Columbus Group, is leaving the company at his own request. Michael Buhl, CFO of the Tele Columbus Group, will temporarily assume the position of president of the Management Board. Markus Schmid led the company for over two years through a phase of strategic reorientation, first as Managing […]
Charles Dunstone, chief executive of Carphone Warehouse (owner of Talk Talk and Tiscali UK) is studying whether its Talk Talk phone and broadband business should expand Tiscali's TV service and whether that would be via Canvas or the existing platform. Carphone completed its deal to buy Tiscali's UK assets for £236m (E275m) last week, including […]
Virgin Media has announced that the company has completed its next generation fibre optic broadband network . Virgin has been working for 18 months on increasing its network capacity and offering ultrafast broadband speeds of up to 50Mb to over 12 million homes. In an attempt to convince some of those 12 million homes to […]
Senators have voted through the 'Hadopi 2' law, which will allow judges to impose punishments on those found to have made illegal downloads. The law is a complement to the Hadopi (the internet watchdog) 1 law, setting up a new body for Internet piracy. It was originally proposed that this law would allow for the […]
The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has announced a new direction in the battle against pay-TV piracy in the Philippines. A breakthrough settlement by Turtle Cable, an infringing cable operator in Camarines Sur, is underpinned by a legally binding undertaking to refrain from broadcasting unauthorised TV programming and exclusively distribute legally authorised […]