The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has released statistical and financial information on Canadian broadcasting distribution companies. For the year ending on August 31st 2010, this sector of the broadcasting industry experienced strong growth as the combined revenues for cable, satellite and multipoint distribution companies rose from $11.4 billion to $12.5 billion. Total revenues […]
OneSeg is the mobile phone TV service that piggybacks on to the ISDB-T hybrid digital terrestrial transmissions system. Brazil is installing ISDB-T throughout the country. Ibope Media, which is partnered with Nielson Online in Brazil, has been contracted to start measuring the impact and viewership of the ISDB-T OneSeg mobile transmissions. OneSeg is being transmitted […]
Four out of ten Europeans households are buying ‘bundled’ Internet, phone and TV services from a single provider, a Eurobarometer survey shows. The survey also found that 65 per cent of people limit their mobile phone calls because of cost and that calls over the Internet are becoming increasingly popular. The E-Communications Household Survey was […]
Jungo, a provider of software solutions for residential gateways, has revealed that Polish broadband access and digital TV provider, Netia SA, has selected Jungo’s OpenRG residential gateway software for the rollout of its new ADSL gateway device – Netia Spot. The new Netia Spot device will improve the online experience for Netia subscribers across Poland […]
Google is funding a multi-million pound planning tool that helps brands understand consumer behaviour across TV and online media and most effectively leverage their spend. It is working with research firm Kantar to build the first panel that will measure TV and online media habits from a single source. Kantar will recruit a 3,000-strong panel, […]
Movie studios, record labels and leading US Internet Service Providers have drawn up a framework for combating online piracy. Under the agreement, which followed months of negotiations, the ISPs will send warnings to customers whose broadband accounts had been used to transmit or receive copyrighted works without permission. The collaboration will be overseen by the […]
ATIS announced that its Cloud Services Forum (CSF) has released the CDN Interconnection Use Case Specification and High Level Requirements (ATIS-0200003) standards document. The standard provides an initial description of content distribution networks (CDNs) and develops interconnection use cases and high-level requirements to support passing content distribution requests between two service providers. The standard enables […]
Ofcom is considering using the airwaves freed up when FM radio goes digital to provide rural broadband. So-called white spaces devices are currently being trialled for use in the spectrum gaps freed up by the digital TV switchover. Ofcom believes they would work equally well in the FM spectrum. There is no set date for […]
Oregan Networks, a developer of Internet TV technologies, has unveiled its new software module that enables monitoring and management of Customer Premises Equipment (CPE), and is based on the widely adopted guidelines stipulated by the Broadband Forum, namely TR-111,TR-69, and TR-135. Oregan’s device management solution allows deploying operators to perform bidirectional monitoring and diagnostics of […]
A report released by Arcep, France’s telecom regulator, has revealed that service providers overall added 2.1 million new IPTV subscriptions in France as of the end of March, reaching a total of 11.4 million subscribers. French consumers are largely purchasing IPTV as part of a broadband bundle. Almost 60 per cent of France’s ADSL connections […]