The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has prohibited all television service providers from entering into or enforcing exclusive access provisions that block competitors from serving apartments, condominiums or other private real estate developments. “Millions of consumers live in apartments, condos or other private developments, and, until now, many of them have been denied the benefits of […]
PeerApp, player in peer-to-peer (P2P) acceleration and caching solutions for Internet Service Providers (ISPs), has launched new software that provides higher-quality subscriber experiences with HTTP video streaming traffic from YouTube, Google Video, MySpace and other video-sharing web sites. The software, a module for PeerApp´s carrier-grade UltraBand² solutions, supports the HTTP video streaming protocol and caches […]
Entone, provider of IPTV home connectivity solutions, has confirmed that its Hydra IP video gateway is being deployed by HickoryTech for its IPTV rollout in Minnesota. HickoryTech offers integrated communication products and services to business and residential customers over a regional fibre network.
Forecasts from analyst firm Canalys indicate the IPTV market will see rapid growth over the next three years, driven by telecom operators' desire to boost ARPU (average revenue per user) and counter the growing threat from competing triple-play providers. Worldwide IPTV subscriber levels will increase more than tenfold by the end of the decade, growing […]
From Sotires Eleftheriou in Paris According to reports in the French press, the British investment fund Cinven wants to sell up to half of its 70 per cent stake in Ypso, the holding company that owns the cable operator Numericable, for almost E2 billion. Several investment funds have expressed an interest in acquiring this 35 […]
From Branislav Pekic in Rome Slovenia's National Assembly has passed the digital broadcasting act that sets the deadline of 2010 for the switchover from analogue to digital. Economy Minister Andrej Vizjak admitted that the changeover will be costly both for the broadcasters and the consumers, who will have to buy new equipment. Howeverthe law already […]
The US House of Representatives has voted unanimously to extend a tax moratorium that was first adopted to promote US Internet access in the early days. The ban prevents local authorities from levying a number of potential Internet taxes, and is a victory for technology and telecommunications companies. While short of the permanent ban they […]
IAC reported a 4.2 per cent drop in third-quarter net income amid higher costs as home-shopping channel HSN showed signs of a turnaround. IAC reported net income of $71.8 million, compared with $74.9 million, a year earlier. The latest quarter’s results included a $5.9 million gain related to the sale of Home Shopping Network Europe […]
Alcatel-Lucent has posted Q3 net losses of E258m on revenue down 7.8 per cent year-on-year at E4.35 billion. The group says the integration plan has seen 5,000 jobs cut in the year so far, with the company on track to achieve synergy-related pre-tax savings of E600m this year. It is to cut a further 4,000 […]
Harmonic announced that TVN Entertainment Corporation, the world’s largest television on demand company, has deployed Harmonic’s CLEARcut offline content preparation software for creation of TVN’s HD on-demand assets. Video is digitally compressed with Harmonic’s DiviCom MV 500 MPEG-2 HD encoders and then formatted using the CLEARcut software for storage on video servers. CLEARcut is a […]