The US cable industry is delivering economic benefits nationwide, generating $568.7 billion (€487.9bn) in total economic output and supporting 1.3 million jobs across the country, according to a report commissioned by NCTA – The Internet & Television Association and conducted by Chmura Economics & Analytics. Additional findings in the study, Investing In America 2024: The […]
Service Electric Cable TV and OpenVault have announced that OpenVault’s OV PNM Proactive Network Management solution will be deployed to ensure availability of the best possible broadband experiences for Service Electric subscribers. SECTV is leveraging OpenVault’s leadership in AI- and ML-powered optimisation technologies to increase its ability to automatically identify network issues that may impact […]
Even under increased scrutiny, fixed wireless access (FWA) is still winning over consumers in the US. According to the J.D. Power data, customer satisfaction with FWA – a method of 5G or 4G LTE wireless technology that delivers high-speed internet by leveraging existing wireless networks run by Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) – continues to be […]
FTTH network builders can significantly reduce the amount of expensive optical fibre they throw away thanks to a new initiative from French cabling experts, ACOME Group. Every day, broadband companies waste on average 10 per cent of the full fibre cable they deploy owing to a lack of knowledge of how much cable they have available […]
The Syndeo Institute at The Cable Center will honour six visionaries in the world of media and entertainment at the 28th annual Cable Hall of Fame celebration, a red-carpet event at the Ziegfeld Ballroom in New York City on April 24th 2025. The 2025 honorees, selected for their leadership and impact in the connectivity, content, […]
Streaming services are the way to enjoy shows these days—there’s no debating it. ‘Streaming wars’ have become the new form of competition for viewership. Traditional broadcasters seem to have lost their grip, and it is clear why: streaming services offer more choices, and on-demand content makes it hard for cable to compete. How Streaming Became […]
Advertising intelligence company AdImpact has launched an industry-wide TV intelligence platform, building off the foundation established by AdImpact’s political advertising intelligence, that brings broadcast, cable and CTV advertising and market intelligence at the local level to advertisers across industries. Given the increasing fragmentation of the television industry with the proliferation of CTV, advertisers and media […]
CommScope has won the auction for busted rival Casa System’s cable network assets with a knockout $45.1 million (€41.4m) bid. That price was more than twice the $20 million tabled in April by Canadian software company Vecima Networks. Vecima, which had hoped Casa’s assets would accelerate its quest to run down Harmonic in the race […]
Sunrise reports it has more than doubled the speed of its hybrid fibre-coaxial cable network. “Fast and reliable Internet is a basic need, not only in cities, but throughout Switzerland. That’s why we’re more than doubling the Internet speed on our hybrid fibre-coaxial cable network, to which around 80 per cent of Swiss households are […]
An invisible DNA marker that links criminals to crime scenes is playing a key role in helping UK digital infrastructure provider Openreach clamp down on cable thefts. The number of incidents, which often cause widespread phone and broadband disruption, dropped last year across the UK by more than 30 per cent. But Openreach’s security team […]