BT has surpassed 600,000 subscribers for its BT Vision hybrid DTT/IPTV service it confirmed in its Q2 results – up from 575,000 customers three months previously. The UK telco also added 71,000 customers to its superfast broadband service ‘BT Infinity’ in the second quarter of 2011, bringing the total to over 200,000, and its superfast […]
Orange reached 4.6 million subscribers for its pay-TV services in Europe by the end of the first half of 2011, having added 977,000 customers in the preceding 12 months, mostly in France and Poland. The France Telecom unit saw the TV customer base in its native country rise 28 per cent year-on-year to reach 3.9 […]
Satellite operator SES unveils its half-year results on Friday (July 28), and is expected to confirm that its upcoming QuetzSat-1 satellite will be launched in September, probably around the 14th by International Launch Services from Kazakhstan. The satellite left Space Systems/Loral’s facilities on July 23, headed for the launch site. QuetzSat-1 has an unusual mission […]
ITV has confirmed plans to launch its TV micropayment system in January, as the broadcaster forecasts an end to its summer advertising slump in September with television ad revenues expected to be “broadly flat”. “Our pay mechanism will launch at the turn of the year; we have picked our partners,” said the ITV chief executive, […]
UK quad-play operator Virgin Media lost 36,000 customers in the three months to the end of June, but reported higher income from its remaining customers. According to Virgin Media, 90 per cent of the net disconnections were lower-value single or dual-play customers. The decline brings its total number of cable subscribers to 4.8 million. It […]
Digital TV technology specialist Pace said it was “making progress” on tackling problems, which led to a profits warning earlier this year. Pace, which is the world’s biggest maker of set-top boxes, surprised the City on May 10 when it reported that profits would be hit by a poor performance in Europe and higher supply […]
Japanese cable operator Jupiter Telecommunications (J:Com) has ended June with a total of 3.52 million households subscribers, up 5.4 per cent year-on-year. Combined revenue generating units (RGUs) for cable television, high-speed Internet access and telephony services reached approximately 6.61 million, up 8.3 per cent from June last year. The bundle ratio (average number of services […]
UK-based STB supplier Amino Technologies’ revenues for the half-year ending May 31st grew 36.2 per cent to £24.7 million from £18.1 million in the year earlier period. Revenues in the UK fell to £0.5 million from £0.9 million, while revenue from the Netherlands grew to £3.9 million from £3.4 million. Revenue from Russia fell to […]
US phone giant AT&T surprised the industry by announcing that it had added 202,000 net new U-verse pay-TV subscribers between April and June. This takes its total of pay-TV clients to 3.4 million subscribers, up 36 per cent on a year ago, and ahead of Wall Street estimates. The bad news is that AT&T lost […]
US telco Verizon’s Q2 figures show accelerated revenue growth and improved margins across its business groups, leading to a strong earnings performance in second-quarter 2011. Chairman and CEO Ivan Seidenberg said the company continued to see strong customer demand for FiOS Internet and TV, and for cloud and other strategic services. On a consolidated basis, […]