Spanish pay-TV is outperforming FTA TV in terms of revenues. For the first time in its history, pay-TV turnover exceeded FTA TV revenues in 2012, according to the annual report from the CMT, the Telecommunications Market Commission. Total pay TV turnover amounted to €1.7 billion in 2012 surpassing FTA TV revenues of €1.6 billion. Pay-TV […]
A new Juniper Research study of the Mobile TV & Video market has found that by 2017, revenues from streaming and download services on mobile and tablet devices will reach $9.5 billion, up from $4.5 billion this year. This will be as a result of the maturation of the market for streaming subscription services and […]
Superfast broadband could reduce annual churn rates for fixed broadband by three percentage points. This conclusion is based on the reduced churn rates that higher-speed services bring, Analysys Mason discovered as part of its analysis of the Connected Consumer 2013 survey. Offering superfast broadband speeds to all customers could reduce annual churn rates by 3 […]
A report from Deloitte reveals that the London technology, media and telecoms (TMT) sector generates an overall economic contribution of £125 billion (€147bn) a year to London and the rest of the UK. This accounts for 8 per cent of UK GDP. To ensure London remains a global TMT hub, the government and financial services […]
The Spanish broadband market is experiencing a deep crisis and its near future looks bleak. The latest report from watchdog CMT reveals that broadband revenues are in free fall with a drop of 7.2 per cent to €35.2 billion in 2012. Only mobile broadband achieved to weather the storm with a rise of 29 per […]
The UK National Audit Office report into the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) rural broadband programme highlights a 2 year delay which could have been addressed by greater use of satellite connections. The original DCMS BDUK programme consisted of two equally important parts: 1) the Universal Service Commitment (USC) aiming to deliver a […]
Market research firm Infonetics Research has released excerpts from its Q1 2013 Set-Top Boxes and Pay TV Subscribers market share and forecast report, which tracks IP, cable, satellite and DTT STBs and OTT media servers. “Cable STBs bucked the seasonal trend in the first quarter of 2013, notching modest gains in both revenue and shipments,” […]
Superfast broadband services delivering 30 megabits a second or more now account for 20 per cent of the consumer market in the UK. “Virgin Media has had the most bandwidth in the market for the longest of the major ISPs. They have seen high end services, over 30 megabits a second, go from ten per […]
A recent report informed us that the City of London Police are, along with the Intellectual Property Office, setting up a special unit to tackle digital piracy and counterfeiting. The IPO is going to provide £2.5 million over two years for the unit. Not exactly the FBI is it? I’m guessing that sum is less […]
The number of pay-TV households (analogue and digital) reached 772 million by 2012, up from 585 million in 2008, according to a report from Digital TV Research. Asia Pacific increased by 126 million – or two-thirds of the global additions – during this period to bring its total to 433 million. North America (112 million) […]