Virgin Media is to open a ‘private members’ club in a bid to increase awareness of its 100Mbps broadband and TiVo TV service. It will open ‘Our House’ at homelessness charity House of St Barnabas’ W1 venue on March 28th. In seven rooms Virgin Media will demonstrate products, including the TiVo and broadband lounge. Partners […]
Netgem has made its Home Cloud software development kit (SDK) available to application developers, Internet service providers and operator partners. Netgem is further developing its partner ecosystem to enable third parties to take advantage of its IPTV 2.0 open architecture. This application framework is designed for the development of live and on-demand TV and multimedia […]
Just 0.18 per cent of US households “cut the cord” between the fourth quarter 2010 and first quarter 2011, according to ESPN analysis of Nielsen households. This study defines “cord-cutters” as multichannel homes with a high-speed Internet connection that drop their cable/telco/satellite subscriptions, but retain their broadband connection to watch television. The current rate of […]
Tiered services becomes a reality as AT&T has confirmed it will soon cap its DSL bandwidth at 150 GB per month. Customers who use more data over three months will have to pay $10 for each additional 50 GB slice of data. This is potentially bad news for services like Netflix. A typical movie streamed […]
In a study on the growth and profitability of the media and entertainment industry released by Ernst & Young, cable operators showed the highest profitability among all media and entertainment sectors, and interactive media was the fastest growing sector within the industry. The report also reveals that, despite current perceptions, the media and entertainment industry […]
Sky Deutschland and Tele Columbus have agreed to expand their existing cooperation and make the Sky packages available in an attractive Triple Play offering. With this, the Tele Columbus customers have easy access to Sky programming: the joint offer comprises a 6 MBit Internet-and telephone flat rate, Tele Columbus basic digital TV package and the […]
We have a widget on the advanced-television.com news service that calculates the most read story over the last five days. It is clear that if the words connected TV feature in the story it will rank high and if the name Google TV is included it will shoot to the top. This fascination is divided […]
Eutelsat used the opening day of Washington Satellite 2011 to confirm a three-year order for capacity on its giant Ka-Sat craft. The deal is with Germany’s Sat Internet Services which has contracted for three-years of capacity on the satellite for Eutelsat’s Tooway broadband-by-satellite product. Eutelsat says there is a significant market opportunity for satellite broadband […]
The UK’s major ISPs are to reveal how and why they slow down user connections to maintain their network performance in order to “help customers understand why they need to vary connection speeds.” The ISPs hope the move will help stave off regulation enforcing net neutrality. The code of practice has been drawn up by […]
In what is still a young market, several technologies are vying for supremacy, but according to ABI Research the market will most likely favour hybrid solutions. In fact, many companies are already laying the foundation with standards such as P1905.1 and products featuring tri-band solutions in the works. ABI Research expects that just over 50 […]