Tele Columbus, the third largest German cable operator, published its financials for the first half of fiscal year 2017. The Group again reported solid growth with revenues of €245.4 million – an increase of 4 per cent year on year. As of June 30th 2017, the Group reported approximately 3.6 million homes connected in-line with […]
Internet users are growing more demanding and less forgiving, according to the results of a consumer survey from Apica, the performance monitoring and testing experts. In a clear call to action for organisations around the world, Apica’s survey found that three quarters of respondents expect websites and apps to perform faster than they did three […]
Global TV operator SPI International/FilmBox has signed an agreement with Anttention Media, Africa’s digital video and audio streaming platform VeeTee, to deliver eight 24/7 TV channels and a VoD service to MTN, Africa’s leading telecommunications company through their sister company Edentek. VeeTee’s mobile TV service now offers the following eight channels from SPI’s worldwide portfolio: […]
AirTies Wireless Networks, an international provider of premium in-home wireless systems, has unveiled two next-generation, in-home Wi-Fi Mesh products for global broadband and TV operators. The Air 4930 Access Point (AP) and Air 7430 IP STB and are the latest additions to AirTies’ award-winning portfolio of devices designed to improve whole-home performance and enable operators […]
Verimatrix, a specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for multi-network, multi-screen digital TV services around the globe, has announced the launch of the Verimatrix Secure Cloud, a new deployment option that equips video service operators with a flexible, fully managed framework for video content security and analytics. Supported by the Verimatrix Global Services team and […]
Tru Optik, the OTT audience measurement and data management platform, has announced a partnership with Neustar , a neutral provider of real-time information services. Through this partnership, the Neustar AdAdvisor Audiences and Data Onboarding capabilities become available for OTT ad-campaign targeting via Tru Optik’s OTT Marketing Cloud. AdAdvisor Audiences are powered by the Neustar OneID […]
Younger viewers in the US think they’re paying too much for streaming services — but they’re still willing to sign up if they want to watch a particular show. That could be good news for the Walt Disney Company, which earlier this month said it would launch ESPN-and Disney-branded streaming services, pulling some of its own programmes from […]
Telefónica has just joined the price war with low cost pay-TV to capture subscribers by launching a promotion that will allow subscribers to enjoy Movistar’s premium TV package for free until 2018. New subscribers will now receive the free premium TV package until the end of the year, with current subscribers receiving two months for […]
Brazil’s anti-trust regulator is objecting to the proposed $85.4 billion (€78.5bn) merger between AT&T and Time Warner. CADE (Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica [Administrative Council for Economic Defense]), the Brazilian regulator, says the merger poses a “high risk” to competition, and as currently planned should be rejected unless the two businesses sell off some of their […]
Australia’s national broadband network (nbn) has reached another significant rollout milestone with six million homes and businesses now able to connect to fast broadband from their preferred Internet provider over the nbn network. The company’s goal is to provide universal high-speed wholesale access and connect eight million homes and businesses by 2020 in partnership with […]