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Kabel Deutschland Q3 boosted by TV

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 […]

February 5, 2014

India’s Hathway switches off 200,000 cable subs

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. […]

February 4, 2014By Chris Forrester

Ono reaches record numbers

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 […]

February 3, 2014

Global TV market revenue up 23% by 2018

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 […]

January 31, 2014

Comcast halts sub losses

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 […]

January 29, 2014

All-star consortium to construct new AAE cable system

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 […]

January 28, 2014

Liberty Global/Ziggo: €10bn deal

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 […]

January 27, 2014By Colin Mann

Global pay-TV subs to top 1.1bn

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 […]

January 23, 2014

ANGA COM: 80% of exhibition space already sold

Four months before its start, ANGA COM, the European Exhibition and Congress for Broadband, Cable & Satellite, reports binding exhibitor registrations have been received for already 80 per cent of the available floor space. ANGA COM’s key topics for 2014 are Next Generation Networks, Content Delivery, Smart TV, Multiscreen, Video on Demand and Connected Home. […]

January 22, 2014

Ono nears IPO

Ono is close to hiring banks for an initial public offering. The Spanish cable operator could pick Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan Chase in the coming weeks for the IPO after inviting banks to bid for the work. Ono is preparing for a flotation on the Madrid stock exchange that could value the group at as […]

January 21, 2014