Latin America’s seven main markets have absorbed almost 21 million set-top boxes as it adopts digital pay-TV. Latest numbers from Dataxis Online Intelligence says 20.57 million units have been supplied or bought by viewers, and this number to grow to 26.4 million by 2016. Of the above installed total, 7.4 million serve cabled homes, 12.3 […]
India’s existing – mostly DTH – digital broadcasters are said to be looking forward enthusiastically to the nation’s implementation of digital transmission by the country’s cable TV operators. India’s four largest cities have to have converted from analogue to digital TV by March next year. The whole nation must be converted by December 2014. Most […]
Liberty Global announced its financial and operating results for the third quarter ended September 30th, 2011. Highlights were the organic additions of RGUs increased 96 per cent to 327,000 revenue of $2.61 billion up 4 per cent and operating income increased 17 per cent to $522 million. Liberty Global’s President and CEO Mike Fries said, […]
Comcast’s third-quarter profit rose 4.7 per cent, as the cable company increased Internet-access subscriptions and slowed pay-TV defections—despite weaker results from its newly acquired NBC broadcast network and Universal movie studio. The largest US cable operator has struggled with stalling industry-wide growth in pay-TV subscribers in the recession. Instead, much of Comcast’s growth in its […]
Cable video gateways will grow from less than 700 thousand units in 2010 to over 10 million in 2016, according to ABI Research. Cable operators in North America and Europe are looking at advanced gateway products from vendors including Pace, Samsung, and Technicolor to deliver advanced services and content to every device in the home, […]
Time Warner Cable has missed Wall Street forecasts, sending the cable company’s shares down as much 10 per cent, as it lost more video customers than expected and lost phone customers for the first time. The No. 2 US cable operator said its third-quarter profit missed analysts’ expectations due to mounting programming costs and a […]
Telenet, the Belgian cable operator controlled by Liberty Global, has raised its profit forecast as customers sign up to more products and higher-priced broadband Internet and mobile-telephony contracts. Adjusted earnings before EBITDA will increase 7.5 per cent to about €719 million this year, the company said. That compares with an earlier forecast of at least […]
Virgin Media has won back 6,300 cable customers in the third quarter of 2011, partly making up for losses of 36,000 over the summer after students disconnected for the holidays. Financial results showed that revenues grew 2.2 per cent to £1 billion year on year, marking a 3.3 per cent rise for the first nine […]
The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE), the US-based cable engineering and standards body, and the Cologne based ANGA Cable Show, a subsidiary of ANGA Association of German Cable Operators, have revealed cooperation agreement in order to mutually promote, enhance and support their respective congress and exhibition events, SCTE Cable-Tec Expo and the ANGA Cable […]
Two Lancashire men who sold illegal Virgin Media set-top boxes have been told they must pay up £200,000 each, or spend longer in jail. Imran Khansia, 30, and Rafiq Dudhwala, 27, from the northwest England town of Blackburn, were part of a four-man gang given jail sentences that totalled just under 14 years. The boxes […]