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Time Warner invests in BlackArrow advertising

BlackArrow has announced a strategic investment in the company by Time Warner Cable and Joan Gillman, president, media sales for Time Warner Cable, has been named to the BlackArrow board of directors. Time Warner Cable joins existing investors Cisco Systems, Comcast Interactive Capital, Intel Capital, Mayfield Fund, Motorola Mobility, NDS and Polaris Venture Partners as […]

May 17, 2011

UK superfast broadband faces setbacks

Britain’s ambitions to have the best superfast broadband in Europe have been hit by a double blow over the past six months according to broadband analysts Point Topic. The roll-out of next-generation broadband technology by BT and alternative networks has lagged a long way behind plans and take-up of the services where they are available […]

May 17, 2011

Pace founder backs Gaydon

Last week was not a good one for the world’s top set-top box supplier Pace. A profits warning issued by the company managed to wipe off 40 per cent from the company’s value, amid calls for CEO Neil Gaydon to be sacked for what one analyst described as “a chaotic range of excuses”. Altium Securities […]

May 16, 2011By Chris Forrester

Research: CEE IPTV revenues to reach €270m

Bundled services provision has become one of the most successful ways to prevent customers from churning in telecoms world in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). One of their main components is often IPTV. Although the IPTV market is in the early stage of development, changes in media consumption are likely to ensure the market stable […]

May 16, 2011

VSNIPTRANSFER: A content exchange platform in Castilla La Mancha

The Testing and Development Center for Castilla-La Mancha Digital Television Foundation chose the VSNIPTRANSFER solution to make available to digital media companies from La Mancha all necessary technology for exchanging media contents over the Internet. NRDmultimedia, VSN’s official integrator, won the project bid. The VSNIPTRANSFER technology was selected by the Testing and Development Center for […]

May 16, 2011

Numericable Belgium on block for investors

Deficom Telecom a consortium of investment companies, allied with the UK’s private-equity house Apax, have entered into negotiations to acquire Numericable networks in Belgium and Luxembourg. The cable operator has doubled its revenues and increased its operating income fivefold since 2003 thanks to the success of triple-play services. It is the main player in the […]

May 13, 2011

DTH to overtake cable by 2015 in Western Europe

Western Europe posted over 182 million TV households at end-2010, 40 per cent of which are watching TV via terrestrial platforms, 27 per cent via cable and about 26 per cent through satellite, either free-to-air or through paid subscription. The IPTV subscriber base represented about 7 per cent of the total base. InfoCom expects that […]

May 13, 2011

Video games boost Vivendi revenues

French entertainment and telecoms company Vivendi has reported a solid start to the year with huge sales of Call of Duty: Black Ops and World of Warcraft boosting earnings in its games division by almost a third, more than countering a plunge of 35 per cent at Universal Music Group. Overall Vivendi, which also owns […]

May 13, 2011

BT profit up, 30,000 more for Vision

BT reported a 71 per cent rise in profits after more than £1 billion (€1.146bn) of cost savings helped it overcome a four per cent drop in revenues. The bigger-than-expected improvement in full-year profits to £1.7 billion was helped by continued success in broadband. BT said 252,000 customers were added by companies using BT’s network, […]

May 12, 2011

Ofcom: 4G 200% better than 3G

Ofcom research reveals that the next generation of mobile technology will deliver more than 200 per cent of the capacity of existing 3G technologies, using the same amount of spectrum – the airwaves that carry information between customers’ mobile handsets and the Internet. This increased capacity is essential in meeting the UK’s rapid increase in […]

May 12, 2011