Belgacom, Belgium’s dominant telco, has appointed Dominique Leroy as chief executive of the company, which is 53.5 per cent state-owned. Leroy has been executive vice president of the Consumer Business Unit of Belgacom since June 2012. She joined Belgacom as vice president sales for the Consumer Business Unit in October 2011, following 24 years at […]
In a further move distancing video delivery services away from the customer’s set-top box and the operator’s network infrastructure, Cisco has announced an expansion of its Videoscape TV services delivery platform to include a host of new cloud video capabilities, including an industry-first Videoscape ‘as-a-service’ offering and open cloud software technologies based on OpenStack. These […]
Global networking company Netgear has introduced the NeoMediacast HDMI Dongle (NTV300D), a customisable, Miracast-enabled platform that enables telecommunications service providers to use the latest Android applications to offer their subscribers a veritable ‘curated content store’ of both premium and free Over-the-Top (OTT) content. With NeoMediacast, service providers can develop and operate a complete media streaming […]
As part of its ongoing commitment to offer advanced services to its Prism TV customers, CenturyLink, the US’s third largest triple-play operator, has launched version 3.0 of its Prism TV app. This enhanced app allows customers to view TV and video on demand content wherever they are, including up to 25 live TV channels outside […]
Swedish telco Com Hem Holding is acquiring Phonera Företag, a telephone and ISP service provider. Annual sales of the acquired operation is 260MSEK (€31m) and the number of customers around 58,000. The takeover is scheduled for March 31st 2014. “Consistent with ComHem’s strategy of actively serving the corporate market, we are pleased to sign the […]
Bulgarian telco Neterra Communications is switching satellites for its DTH ‘white label’ (W4) transmissions. Spacecom’s Amos is the new carrier, and Neterra is switching from Telenor’s 1 degree West orbital neighbourhood to the older Amos-2 satellite which operates from the nearby 4 degree West slot. Amos-2 was launched in 2003 and has an expected 12-years […]
TeliaSonera has cleared out its senior management, firing its chief financial officer and three other employees, after an ethics review into the Swedish telco’s deals in central Asia. Per-Arne Blomquist, who was acting chief executive earlier this year before returning to the role of finance director, and the three other workers lost the confidence of […]
Australian pay-TV operator Foxtel is launching its first Triple Play offering of broadband Internet and fixed-line telephony services bundled with its television product. The initiative follows approval by Foxtel’s shareholders Telstra and News Australia, and the execution of a wholesale agreement with Telstra. Such a move will also impact on the potential launch of Netflix […]
Vivendi has confirmed its plan to split in two. The French group is to spin off its SFR telecommunications company and list it separately on the stock market. “This plan could take the form of a distribution of SFR shares to Vivendi shareholders on the day of the transaction,” the company said. Vivendi, which owns […]
Russian telco Rostelcom says it is looking to buy a satellite pay-TV operator. News agency Itar-TASS quotes Rostelcom as saying that it wishes to expand its current pay-TV subscriber base (6.6 million as at December 2012) by moving into the satellite-based pay-TV business and the fastest way to do this would be to acquire a […]