Germany: Cablers add 500,000 broadband subs
German cable network operators added around 500,000 Internet subscribers in 2017 and currently supply 7.7 million in Germany with high-speed Internet households (an increase of seven per cent). The figure…
Analyst: Global pay-TV revenues to fall 11%
Global pay-TV revenues peaked in 2016 at $205 billion (€166bn), according to the Global Pay TV Revenue Forecasts report from Digital TV Research. Revenues will fall by 11 per cent…
Israel: Partner teams with Amazon
Israeli multiplay operator Partner Communications has revealed what it describes as a first of its kind collaboration agreement between Amazon Prime Video and its Partner TV unit. Partner TV customers…
Comcast to bundle Netflix
Comcast and Netflix have agreed an expansion of their partnership that will provide Comcast the ability to include a Netflix subscription in new and existing Xfinity packages. In November 2016,…
Analyst: Global pay-TV to gain 95m subs
Ninety-five million additional pay-TV subscribers are set to be added between 2017 and 2023 to take the global total to 1.1 billion, according to Digital TV Research. Based on forecasts…
Research: 40% US homes ‘pay-TV polygamists’
US audiences may be moving away from traditional cable, satellite and IPTV packages but the trend is being tempered by the emergence of ‘pay-TV polygamists’ – households taking more than…
Analyst: APAC to add 78m pay-TV subs
The Asia Pacific pay-TV sector is bucking the downward trends in much of the rest of the world. Subscribers will grow by 78 million and revenues by $2.73 billion between…
Cable MSOs team for advanced ads
US cable MSOs Charter Communications, Comcast Corporation and Cox Communications, owners of multiscreen media sales company NCC Media, are creating a new division within NCC to design, deploy and sell…
Cable Europe calls for streamlined copyright clearance
European broadband cable industry trade body Cable Europe has warned that cable operators may not be able to provide the full range of portability services permissible from April 1st because…
UK sets out high-speed broadband USO
High-speed broadband connectivity for the entire UK has moved one step closer following the laying of legislation setting the design of the broadband Universal Service Obligation (USO) Comms regulator Ofcom…