The researcher finds that Europe’s cable operators have been focusing on triple-play services – with telephony rolling out at a rapid rate. Spain and the UK lead in triple play, with over 80 per cent of cable homes taking telephony and more than 60 per cent per cent taking broadband services.

Faced with stiff competition in the cable market and from telcos vying for TV viewers, traditionally risk-averse cable operators are becoming increasingly ‘bipolar’, supporting a Meanwhile, STB vendors are offering a variety of new features to entice operators. When it comes to STBs, operators have traditionally tread carefully, and have largely been unwilling to ‘shop […]

Over two-thirds (68 per cent) of the 60 million television sets in the UK are now digitally – linked via cable, satellite or digital terrestrial Key trends for the first quarter of 2008 include: There are over 9.6 million homes with DTT on their main television set – an increase of almost 1.3 million over […]

The demand for Internet bandwidth is set to double in two years and grow still further, according to a study carried out by the Institute The independent ‘Global Bandwidth’ study said that huge changes in network content and social behaviours will mean bandwidth demand exceeds 160 Tbits/s by 2010 – an annual demand that exceeds […]

The Broadband Forum, formerly the DSL Forum, has announced the latest Broadband and IPTV statistics. The report shows that IPTV subscribers have more than doubled The statistics also show that worldwide broadband subscribers have reached over 370 million with DSL remaining the most dominant access technology with 65 per cent of the world's subscribers. However, […]

Communications market research firm Infonetics Research has reported that worldwide mobile videophone sales neared $99 billion in 2007 and are expected to grow strongly over the next 5 years, despite the challenge service providers face in making mobile video services profitable. The report shows that the number of mobile video subscribers topped 10 million worldwide […]

Worldwide spending on Internet advertising will total $65.2 billion in 2008, which represents nearly 10 per cent of all ad spending across all media. With IDC’s Digital Marketplace Model and Forecast projecting 15-20 per cent annual growth throughout the forecast period, this share will reach 13.6 per cent by 2011 as Internet ad spending grows […]

comScore has released data from the comScore Video Metrix service, indicating that 27.4 million UK Internet users viewed 3.5 billion videos online in March 2008. Google Sites, driven by the popularity of YouTube.com, attracted a 48 per cent share of all online videos viewed in the UK. BBC Sites ranked second with a 1.2 per […]

Interactive media’s worldwide share of advertising spend, including Internet, mobile and gaming, is expected to reach 15 per cent in 2009, according to a study by GroupM. The study, ‘Interaction: Addressable, Searchable, Social and Mobile’, reveals that adspend in interactive media reached 11 per cent of the total last year, sparked mostly by gains recorded […]

Communications market research firm Infonetics Research reported today that the combined IPTV and switched digital video (SDV) equipment market increased 12 per cent sequentially to $1.3 billion worldwide in Q108. Infonetics’ report, IPTV and Switched Digital Video Equipment, Services, and Subscribers, indicates revenue growth is being driven by growing numbers of service providers rolling out […]