Comcast the largest US cable operator has started offering a super-fast premium service launched in Minneapolis-St. Paul. The new service offers speeds starting at 50 megabits per second, compared with the previous fastest connection speeds of 16 mb per second. Comcast said the new service is aimed at residential and business customers. But at $149.95 […]

The companies are in talks to collaborate on ways to run BitTorrent’s technology more smoothly on Comcast’s broadband network, and allow Comcast to transport video files more effectively over its own network in the future, says Tony Warner, Comcast’s chief technology officer. Comcast and BitTorrent have been at odds since the cable operator said it […]

Comcast and Time Warner Cable, the two largest US cable operators, are discussing funding a new wireless company that would be run by Sprint Nextel and Clearwire. Comcast is expected to contribute as much as $1 billion to the nationwide wireless venture, which would use WiMax technology, according to the WSJ. Time Warner Cable is […]

Verizon Communications said that it asked the Federal Communications Commission to make it easier for consumers to switch from cable providers to video services offered by phone companies. The move comes amid increasing rivalry between phone companies and cable service providers. Verizon and AT&T offer high-speed Internet and video services that compete with cable, while […]

Screen Digest’s ‘China Television Market: Assessment and Forecast to 2012' has concludes that the world's largest TV market is enjoying a period of strong growth and despite regulatory hurdles still offers significant investment opportunities for global technology suppliers. In particular, the Beijing Olympics is driving domestic digital cable take-up which is set to grow from […]

Google is pressing the US government to allow the unlicensed frequencies of TV “white space” to be used for wi-fi. The Internet giant has written an open letter to regulators saying the US spectrum was a “once in a lifetime opportunity”. “The vast majority of viable spectrum in this country simply goes unused, or else […]

Irdeto has announced that Shanxi Cable Broadcasting Network has chosen the Irdeto Digital TV conditional access solution to accelerate their digital migration process. Under the agreement, Irdeto will deliver one million smart cards over the next 24 months. Shanxi province in China has nearly four million cable TV subscribers.

Figures from industry body Cable Europe, claim broadband Internet connections via cable grew 22 per cent in 2007, cementing the sector as the main competitor to telcos. Cable Europe says the industry is investing strongly in the future of its fibre-coax network with a CAPEX ratio of 24 per cent. The latest cable technology (DOCSIS […]

Interactive television won’t succeed until cable companies reach agreement on measurement standards, according to Starcom MediaVest executives. The initiative undertaken by six major cable companies, called Canoe, is a step in the right direction, said Jen Soch, MediaVest USA’s VP and director of advanced TV. Tracey L. Scheppach, vice president/video innovation director at Starcom USA, […]

TW CEO Jeff Bewkes has signalled he is leaning towards a complete spin-off of Time Warner Cable, telling investors a split between the two companies could be beneficial for both. The board has been conducting a formal review into whether and how Time Warner should change its 84 per cent ownership of Time Warner Cable, […]