Global telco Vodafone has tabled a €7 billion bid for Spanish cable MSO ONO, according to reports in the UK and Spain. It is understood the cableco will discuss the offer at a Board meeting February 11th. The move follows Vodafone’s €7.7 billion acquisition of German cable MSO Kabel Deutschland in September 2013. At the […]
UK cable giant Virgin Media admitted 15 offences related to laying cables in Richmond on Thames, and these included failing to place safety barriers around exposed manholes, or putting up mandatory warning signs that work was taking place. A London court heard that Virgin Media’s contractors were laying communication cables and the court heard the […]
Kabel Deutschland has published its consolidated financial results for the quarter ending on December 31st 2013 revealing further recovery of its premium TV business with 86 thousand RGU net adds, resulting in a total of 2.2 million pay-TV and DVR RGUs. Germany’s largest cable network operator also reported that continued Internet & Phone momentum with 88,000 […]
Indian cable TV giant Hathway Cable & Datacom were forced to switch off some 200,000 set-top boxes in the Bengaluru region because the home-owners had failed to complete their all-important Customer Application Forms (CAF). These paper documents are vital to the whole digitisation process, and without a completed CAF the cable MSOs must disconnect service. […]
Spanish cable group Ono has revealed that it closed 2013 with a total of 5,234,000 services. In the high-speed segment, Ono added 31.000 new clients in the quarter, reaching a total 811,000. Over 7,000 new customers added in the last quarter bring the total to 1,868,000 at December 31st 2013. In broadband, the operator closed […]
IDATE has published the latest edition of its TV and new video services market report and database, delivering key data on this ever-changing market. At a time when video has become pervasive across all screens, most national TV markets are losing steam: shrinking viewership and pressure on advertising markets, especially in Europe. Although pay-TV seems […]
US cable giant Comcast has revealed that profits soared 26 per cent in Q4 2013, and that it had finally put the brakes on a trend of customer losses. For the three months ended December 31st, Comcast added 43,000 net video subscribers – marking the first time in nearly seven years that the company did […]
PCCW Global, an international operating division of HKT, the Hong Kong telco, and 16 other prominent service providers around the world have come together to construct a new and unique high capacity cable system, Asia Africa Europe-1 (AAE-1). AAE-1 interconnects Hong Kong, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe with a target ready for service […]
Cable MSO Liberty Global is to acquire Dutch cable operator Ziggo in a stock and cash transaction valuing Ziggo at approximately €10 billion. In addition, Liberty Global also announced that its Board of Directors has approved a stock dividend of one Liberty Global Class C ordinary share on each outstanding Class A, Class B and […]
ABI Research’s latest Pay TV ARPU and Revenues Market Data report has found that worldwide pay-TV market reached 903.3 million subscribers in 2013, generating $249.8 billion in service revenue. IPTV operators enjoyed significant growth (18.5 per cent YoY) in 2013 to 92 million subscribers with a total of $37.2 billion in service revenue. “Increasing FTTH […]