German IPTV and hybrid DVB STB provider, ABOX42, will demonstrate its new dotIO Smart Home Platform for pay-TV, internet and mobile operators. The ABOX42 dotIO Smart home solution is a fully managed turnkey solution for operators that enables them to generate new revenue streams by opening up new business models. “With the margins for internet, […]
Amino, the IP/Cloud video software and device specialist, has announced that its Aria 6 hybrid TV device has been certified for Minerva 10 – Minerva’s advanced pay-TV service management platform. Minerva and Amino have partnered on hundreds of operator deployments globally with their combined solution representing the most-deployed IPTV ecosystem in the industry. Currently, the […]
A report in the Sunday Times suggests that the enthusiasm for buyers to acquire UK mast and transmission company Arqiva is fading fast. The report says that Singapore’s GIC sovereign wealth fund has withdrawn from the £6 billion auction, which “leaves just one solid bidder in the frame — Canadian property empire Brookfield,” said the […]
The annual IP crime and enforcement report: 2016 to 2017 from the UK’s Intellectual Property Office, which highlights current and emerging counterfeiting and piracy threats in the UK and overseas, suggests that one of the biggest challenges facing the pay-TV industry is the sale and use of illicit streaming devices, commonly
Kaltura, the video technology provider, has announced several enhancements to the company’s Cloud TV Platform. The new release of the Kaltura TV Platform ensures 99.995 per cent availability for live and VoD TV viewing across all devices – the first in the industry to commit to this level of service, Kaltura is well positioned to […]
Canadian multi-play operator Videotron has confirmed an agreement with multinational media and technology company Comcast. The strategic partnership is aimed at developing and delivering an IPTV service based on Comcast’s Xfinity X1 platform that will support a peerless customer experience for Videotron customers. “We are very pleased with our decision to choose this state-of-the-art platform,” […]
Multi-play telco Digicel and Huawei Technologies have teamed up to push the boundaries of technology and put the real power of fibre to the test with the first-ever local linear broadcast of Ultra HD TV in the Caribbean. Hosted at Digicel’s downtown Kingston headquarters in Jamaica, the test demonstrated the benefit of having a 100 […]
Deutsche Telekom, Europe’s biggest telecom company, has posted quarterly results that topped expectations, with a 9 per cent rise in core profit powered by strength in the US and modest gains in Germany and Europe. The German telco lifted up its 2017 outlook for core profit to around €22.3 billion from €22.2 billion. Q2 results […]
Telefónica’s IPTV platform Movistar Plus is increasing the price of its premium packages by €5 a month: Fusión+ Ficción Total, Fusión+ Fútbol Total, Fusión+ Premium, Fusión+ Premium Extra, Fusión+4 Premium, Fusión+4 Premium Extra and Fusión+4 Premium Extra Total. The increase will come with a lift in Gigabytes between 20 and 40 Gb per package and […]
In announcing its results for the first quarter to June 30th, UK telco BT has revealed that its TV customer base continues to grow with TV net adds of 8,000 taking its base to 1.8 million with all customers now migrated from the legacy Vision TV platform to YouView. BT’s operating costs increased 9 per […]