Primacom, Germany’s fourth-largest cable operator, wants an active role in the market’s consolidation, according to its managing director, and has already made bids for certain assets of Tele Columbus and for Deutsche Telekabel. “We are hunters not hunted. We are ready to be a consolidator”, Wolf Waschkuhn, managing director and supervisory board member of Primacom […]

NAGRA MediaAccess has been selected by Shandong Cable, the cable television provider for the Shandong Province of China and one the world’s largest cable operators. This new win reinforces the company’s growing footprint in the region and marks an important milestone for NAGRA as the first large-scale deployment in China of the company’s device-embedded conditional […]

Netia, Poland’s largest alternative provider of fixed-line telecommunications has selected Arris to enable TV services over its newly acquired cable networks. The Arris C4 CMTS and HFC networking solutions will power Netia’s new TV offerings and provide a scalable network infrastructure to support its burgeoning TV customer base. The solutions will be integrated by Vector, […]

C2G, a provider of cabling and connectivity solutions, has released a new line of HDMI cabling designed for connecting multimedia source devices in conference rooms, board rooms, small and home offices, desktop and commercial audio/video applications. The Select High Speed HDMI with Ethernet cable line allows users to experience the latest HDMI features including full […]

Liberty Global is planning a complete takeover of Dutch cable firm Ziggo, according to reports in Germany, despite Chief Executive Mike Fries recent statement he was content with the group’s strategic stake in the firm. Liberty Global, which already has a 28.5 per cent stake, is planning to merge the group with its existing UPC […]

Harmonic, a specialist in video delivery infrastructure, has announced the expansion of its support services for cable edge customers. The company’s new Cable Edge Services group includes a team of technical support and field engineers dedicated to providing design, strategy, deployment, migration, and ongoing operations support for cable operators as they implement the latest high-density […]

Netflix is said to be in talks with several US cable operators including Comcast and Suddenlink to make its online video service available as an app on their set-top boxes. A deal would mark the online video service’s first such tie-up with a US cable provider and would come after a similar agreement it recently […]

Much of the recent focus on India’s cable operators has been concentrated on the complex – and often troubled – conversion from analogue to digital.  However, October 10th saw regulators pounce on 32 smaller Local Cable Operators (LCOs) and closed them down completely. It seems that none of the 32 LCOs have paid their entertainment […]

The value of the European cable industry grew more than five per cent in 2012 and future growth potential remains robust, according to a new report from IHS, produced in collaboration with Cable Europe. European Broadband Cable 2013 shows that the investment thesis for cable remains strong, a fact highlighted by recent deal activity such […]