Global subscribers to wideband telco services such as Fibre To The Home (FTTH) and VDSL are expected to rise at more than triple the rate of ADSL during the next few years as carriers seek to boost their networks performance, according to the broadband market research firm iSuppli Corp. Wideband telco services subscribers are forecasted […]
US consumers are less satisfied with their monthly pay-TV bills compared with last year, according to J.D. Power and Associates’ annual TV customer-satisfaction service survey – and cable subscribers are more likely to feel ‘ripped off’ than telco or satellite TV customers. The average satisfaction rating for the cost of pay-TV prices fell 2.5 per […]
Identifying the successful “new services,” licensing models, and associated “business models” will require continual trial and error, with no certainty of success says In-Stat. “The decline of retail video disc sales, coupled with on-demand viewing of TV content and the threat of video cord cutting, points to enormous changes ahead for the video entertainment industry,” […]
Keynote speakers at MIPCOM’s Industry Outlook panel have suggested that strategic flexibility will be a critical weapon as major media companies face the challenges created by digital transformation. According to Marcel Fenez, global leader, entertainment and media at PricewaterhouseCoopers, consumer behaviour in the digital era is starting to follow defined patterns. “What we are starting […]
According to figures released on by the UK Internet Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers, spending on Internet advertising increased by 10 per cent in the first half of the year, to £1.67 billion (E1.92bn). The growth rate has picked up from last year, when online spending rose 4.2 per cent, but has fallen behind that of […]
BT is launching a nationwide survey dubbed ‘Race to Infinity’ to see how much potential demand there is for optical fibre broadband. BT claims that this will identify “hot spots” where the demand for fibre is high. BT will have brought fibre broadband within reach of four million premises by the end of 2010, but […]
For the first time in recent years the number of pay-TV subscriber households in the US has decreased, according to In-Stat. US pay-TV households, which consist of cable TV, IPTV, and satellite TV subscribers, saw a reduction of some 167,000 subscribers during 2Q of 2010. “There are several reasons behind the quarterly subscriber loss,” says […]
Pay TV STB shipment volumes reach an all time high in 2009 with 127 million units shipped according to research by Screen Digest. Despite a 3 per cent growth in volumes the value of the industry fell to E9.2 billion. Motorola remained the number one pay TV set-top box vendor by shipment volumes with Pace […]
Television services in Latin America will grow by double digits over the next five years, outpacing service growth in Asia and other emerging markets, according to Parks Associates. A report by the firm reveals the Latin American region will achieve a cumulative annual growth rate of 10 per cent through 2014, compared to less than […]
A study has found that disappointing adoption levels of existing mobile TV services, allied to competition both from streamed mobile services facilitated by the growing prevalence of WiFi and from mobile reception of free-to-air terrestrial networks, has lead to growing disillusionment within the industry. The Juniper Research report found that the number of paying subscribers […]