UK quad-play operator Virgin Media added nearly 100,000 new subscribers in 2015, fuelled by the rollout of its super-fast Project Lightning broadband service, but cuts 900 UK jobs. Overall, Virgin Media – owned by Liberty Media – reported an operating income of £111 million in Q4 and £378 million for 2015. The operator now has […]
Liberty Global has reported financial and operating results for the three months and year ended December 31st 2015 for the Liberty Global Group and the LiLAC Group. Key highlights for the consolidated operations of Liberty Global plc for full-year 2015 Organic RGU additions of 870,000, including 344,000 in Q4, the best quarter of the year […]
French telco Orange reports that 2015 was particularly rich in structurally significant events for the Group, starting with the presentation of the new strategic plan Essentials2020 in March focused on customers’ expectations and the quality of the Orange experience. In Europe, the acquisition of Jazztel led to the creation of the second largest fixed broadband […]
upc cablecom has reported consistent growth once again in the Internet, telephony and mobile markets in 2015. Revenue increased to more than CHF 1.3 billion (€1.17bn) over this period – a year-on-year increase of 3.4 per cent. The business customer segment experienced strong growth of 13 per cent. upc cablecom further strengthened its position as […]
US telco AT&T is unveiling its 5G roadmap to bring its customers the next-generation of super-fast, flexible wireless connectivity. Technologies such as millimetre waves, network function virtualisation (NFV), and software-defined networking (SDN) will be among the key ingredients for future 5G experiences. AT&T Labs has been working on these technologies for years and has filed […]
Millicom has boosted its cable expansion plans with the announcement that it will acquire TV Cable Paraná, the leading cable platform in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay’s second largest city. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval. Millicom’s Home brand Tigo Star already provides pay-TV and broadband in most other urban regions in Paraguay. Tigo is […]
Integrating Netflix into traditional pay-TV has had a net positive impact on operator KPIs, according to a survey of service providers conducted by IHS. The SVoD offering has generally been found to benefit operators’ business, while co-existing well with more-traditional parts of the bundle. In a Client Report – Netflix on pay TV: A marriage […]
Netflix has confirmed it has finally completed its cloud migration and shut down the last remaining data centre bits used by its streaming service, having begun the process in August 2008, when it experienced a major database corruption and for three days could not ship DVDs to its members. It suggests the development moves it […]
A new record for the fastest ever data rate for digital information has been set by UCL researchers in the Optical Networks Group. They achieved a rate of 1.125 Tb/s as part of research on the capacity limits of optical transmission systems, designed to address the growing demand for fast data rates. Lead researcher, Dr […]
Sandvine, a provider of intelligent broadband network solutions for fixed and mobile operators, has released a Global Internet Phenomena Spotlight on the state of Internet traffic encryption in 2016. In recent years, a significant number of major Internet services and applications have begun to encrypt their traffic in order to ensure their user’s content remains […]