Liberty Global president and chief executive Mike Fries has criticised the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) over its preliminary view that Foxtel’s proposed A$1.9 billion acquisition of regional pay-TV group Austar is anti-competitive Fries, who is also Chairman of Austar, noted that Australia is the only market that does not consider pay and free-to-air […]
Brazil’s National Telecoms Agency says that the country now has more than 11 million pay-TV subscribers. 1.3 million net new subs were added during the first half of this year, with DTH satellite taking just over half of that total. A total of 235,000 subs were added in June alone. DTH now has 5.61 million […]
UK quad-play operator Virgin Media lost 36,000 customers in the three months to the end of June, but reported higher income from its remaining customers. According to Virgin Media, 90 per cent of the net disconnections were lower-value single or dual-play customers. The decline brings its total number of cable subscribers to 4.8 million. It […]
Consumer research from Leichtman Research Group (LRG) finds that 8 per cent of US households get a broadband Internet service, but do not subscribe to a multi-channel video service, while 70 per cent of households get both broadband and multi-channel video services. Among this group getting broadband but not multi-channel video, the reason for not […]
A €13.4 million deal that would have seen Danish triple-play operator Stofa – a subsidiary of private equity firm Ratos – acquire the Danish cable TV activities of Canal Digital is no longer to proceed following indications from competition bodies that approval of the deal was unlikely. Stofa signed an agreement in January to acquire […]
Paraguay’s Cable Operators Association says some 40 per cent of its former pay-TV subscribers are now viewing signals direct from satellites. The Association’s 60 members have a presence in 55 main cities and regions of the country, and have now requested a meeting with Paraguay’s president to discuss what they see as a major problem. […]
Findings from the H1 2011 Allot MobileTrends Report suggests that mobile data bandwidth usage continued its steady rise, with 77 per cent growth during the first half of 2011 based on data collected from the service optimisation and revenue generation solutions specialist’s worldwide mobile operator customers. The report found that video streaming continued to show […]
Nielsen, a global information and measurement company, and Kantar Media, a unit of Kantar, an information, insight and consultancy group that is part of WPP, have inked a multi-year agreement providing Nielsen with STB data from Kantar Media’s DIRECTView service for use in local TV audience measurement. Nielsen has developed a proprietary, hybrid methodology for […]
A survey conducted on the Angus Reid Forum and commissioned by Primus Canada, a PTGi company, has revealed that almost half (46 per cent) of Canadian respondents would give up watching television before they would give up surfing the Internet or using their phone. Another one-third of respondents (35 per cent) would rather give up […]
Japanese cable operator Jupiter Telecommunications (J:Com) has ended June with a total of 3.52 million households subscribers, up 5.4 per cent year-on-year. Combined revenue generating units (RGUs) for cable television, high-speed Internet access and telephony services reached approximately 6.61 million, up 8.3 per cent from June last year. The bundle ratio (average number of services […]