Reporting its Q1 2012, Virgin Media says it is making steady progress against forecasts. Most notable is the incline by 1.7 per cent year on year in the ARPU to £46.95 (€57) boosted by further penetration for TiVo, up 242,000 to 677,000 or 18 per cent of the subs base. Turnover was up 2.4 per […]
German cable company PrimaCom, which was taken over by its lenders in 2011 after its parent’s insolvency, is being put up for sale as German regulators pave the way for consolidation among smaller network operators, reports Bloomberg. Investment bank Jefferies Group Inc has been hired to prepare the search for a buyer, said Bloomberg sources. […]
The scheme to convert India’s cable systems in its four major cities cable to digital operation by June 30th will be missed. It is now clear that few, if any of the giant ‘metros’ will meet the obligatory dates. The cable operators are blaming India’s regulator (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, TRAI) for being slow […]
ANGA Cable Show, for more than 10 years Europe’s leading Business Platform for Broadband and Content will start with the new top mark of 440 exhibitors on 12 June 2012. Key topics of the event are Smart TV, hybrid networks, Video on Demand, IPTV and Connected Home. Accordingly, this year’s motto is “Where Broadband meets […]
Deutsche Telekom may bid for regional cable company Tele Columbus – Germany’s third largest cable provider with 3.7 million connected households – to shore up its position in its key home market against competition from rivals Liberty Global and Kabel Deutschland, according to Reuters. By acquiring Tele Columbus, Deutsche Telekom would prevent it from falling […]
Liberty Global’s European cable operations in Germany (Unitymedia and Kabel BW), Netherlands (UPC), Austria (UPC) and Switzerland (upc cablecom) have reached agreements with ESPN for carriage of sports channels. With a combination of renewals and new launches, ESPN America HD, ESPN America and ESPN Classic will be available to European households that get their television […]
Western Europe will not reach full digital TV penetration until 2017, despite penetration being as high as 85 per cent by end-2011, according to a new report from Digital TV Research (DTVR). In fact, only two of the 15 countries covered in the Digital TV Western Europe report had fully converted to digital by end-2011, […]
Aster Cable, a failing cable company in the Dominican Republic, was recently sold via auction to Consorcio Energético Punta Cana-Macao (CEPM). CEPM paid US$27 million for the business, although most observers expected the sale to achieve around US$44 million. Aster had been in administration for the past three years. Now the local Justice and Transparency […]
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will not oppose the proposed A$1.9 billion acquisition of Austar by Foxtel after accepting court-enforceable undertakings from Foxtel. Austar shareholders voted March 30 to approve the deal. “This is a great outcome for consumers because we will now be able to create a company of scale that will deliver […]
Asheridge Communications is extending its reach further into operators Headends, with a range custom splitting and combining panels. Created during close consultations between Asheridge Engineers and operators, this range of high performance modular passives can be adapted to almost any configuration in the network. Potential examples of applications are: test point, splitting and combining, […]