Market research firm Infonetics Research has released excerpts from its STB Features and Vendor Leadership: Global Service Provider Survey, which captures service providers‚ requirements for IP-based STBs to deliver video services. “Although low-cost set-top boxes designed to deliver basic video services over broadband infrastructure were the hallmark of IPTV services, strong competition and the need […]

Britain’s ambitions to have the best superfast broadband in Europe have been hit by a double blow over the past six months according to broadband analysts Point Topic. The roll-out of next-generation broadband technology by BT and alternative networks has lagged a long way behind plans and take-up of the services where they are available […]

Ireland’s Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte has published a report on TV viewing methods in Ireland which reveals that only about one-third of Irish terrestrial TV homes were aware of analogue switch off at the time the research was undertaken. The report, which was commissioned from Behaviour and Attitudes, surveyed 1,100 TV households. It provides an […]

In a filing with the FCC, Ron Wheeler, SVP of Content Protection for Fox Group stated that “in the course of renegotiating a contract with one of Fox’s multichannel video programming distribution (“MVPD”) partners, the MVPD has told Fox that it intends in the near future to make its subscription and on-demand video services available […]

Ofcom research reveals that the next generation of mobile technology will deliver more than 200 per cent of the capacity of existing 3G technologies, using the same amount of spectrum – the airwaves that carry information between customers’ mobile handsets and the Internet. This increased capacity is essential in meeting the UK’s rapid increase in […]

The ability to stay constantly connected to the Internet is making consumers increasingly dependent on the cloud for their daily needs, Ericsson ConsumerLab research has found. And while the smartphone revolution may have started this trend, the research has shown it is app usage that is likely to make it continue. Apps are actually shaping […]

Pace in 2010 became the world’s No. 1 seller of set-top boxes in terms of unit shipments on an annual basis, surpassing Motorola, new IHS Screen Digest research indicates. Pace’s STB shipments grew by 21.1 per cent in 2010 to 20.7 million units, up from 17.1 million in 2009. Motorola’s shipments rose only 4.2 per […]

In 2011, the world’s annual data traffic volume will total almost 8,000 petabytes, according to ABI Research. That will grow at a CAGR of 50 per cent over the following years, exceeding 60,000 petabytes in 2016 – over seven times more than in 2011. The year-on-year growth will be the fastest in 2012 (58 per […]

The operational performance and commercial practices of the top four satellite operators, Telesat, SES, Intelsat and Eutelsat, have been evaluated by teleport operators in a new research study undertaken by Futuresource Consulting. The study, commissioned by The World Teleport Association – the trade association focusing on the business of satellite communications – was carried out […]