Incumbent Dutch telco Royal KPN NV (KPN) is to acquire Dutch cable MSO Caiway from its current shareholders, Rabo Bouwfonds’ Communication Infrastructure Fund (CIF) and Caiway’s management, for an undisclosed sum. Caiway provides television, broadband and telephony services in several municipalities in the Netherlands through the cable and fibre infrastructures of CIF and a number […]
US Cable operators saw over two million video customers evaporate from their rolls in 2010, whereas Telco TV and Satellite actually gained customers over the same period—more than compensating for Cable’s losses and netting a modest 273,000 new subscribers for Pay TV overall. A new report by Strategy Analytics suggests that the US Cable industry […]
IMS Research goes against the grain on OTT and cord cutting for cable MSOs. It is forecasting that digital cable TV subscribers in the US will increase by 7.8 million from the end of 2010 to the end of 2015, even as the platform as a whole is forecast to drop by 2.75 million subscribers […]
Wananchi Group, a leading local triple-play telco, is to launch a satellite-based DTH pay-TV for Kenyan viewers. ‘Zuku’ will launch in May and directly challenge South Africa’s DStv. Zuku already offers up to 91 channels of cable TV to its – mostly – Nairobi subscribers. Wananchi has as its group chairman Mark Schneider, well known […]
RGB Networks, a specialist in high-capacity multi-screen video delivery, will demonstrate how cable operators can use RGB’s innovative solutions to deploy advanced multi-screen video services seamlessly and cost-effectively to TVs, personal computers, tablets and mobile devices. At ANGA Cable, RGB will showcase how its solutions address the key challenges that cable operators are faced with […]
Virgin Media grew its turnover 5.7 per cent to £982 million (€1.13bn) in the first quarter and ARPU was up 2.6 per cent YonY to £46.16 (though this was down on Q4 2010). However the company added only 20,200 new subscribers, 47 per cent down on Q1 of 2010, and the TV service added just […]
Virgin Media is to begin testing internet speeds of up to 1.5Gb in east London. Using Virgin Media’s unique cable network, the trials will begin this month in partnership with four companies in the vicinity of Old Street in London, dubbed the ‘Silicon Roundabout’. If successful the 1.5Gb download and 150Mb upload service will be […]
Total US pay TV subscribers remained flat, growing by only some 148,000 during 2010, a 0.15 per cent annual growth rate, indicating no current trend toward video cord cutting/shaving, according to In-Stat. “A substantial portion of pay TV subscribers, however, exhibit similar characteristics to video cord cutting households,” says Keith Nissen, Principal Analyst. “It is […]
Mike Fries, Chief Executive of Liberty Global, has suggested the cable investor is not actively seeking to acquire Dutch cable operator Ziggo, despite earlier suggestions from the company’s Chief Strategy Officer Shane O’Neill that Liberty might consider pre-empting an IPO. Fries told The Denver Post that Ziggo seemed to be “squarely focused on an IPO, […]
As anticipated, the US House of Representatives has voted to overturn the so-called ‘net neutrality’ rules designed to create an open Internet. A clash with the Senate and President Obama is now certain to follow. The House voted 240 to 179 in favour of a Republican-backed resolution that seeks to block the rules approved by […]