As at the end of March, the services of subscription television which use cable and satellite technologies registered around 2 million users in Portugal, representing around 18.8 subscribers per 100 inhabitants. Of these two million users, 75 per cent were customers of the cable distribution service – almost 1.5 million customers – while Direct To […]
Virgin Media has rolled out its first mobile broadband service. The service claims to offer speeds of up to 3.6Mbps and is available on an 18-month contract that comes with 3GB of data every month. The ISP claims this is sufficient to send 2,000 plain text emails as well as browse the web for 100 […]
Virgin Media has rolled out its first mobile broadband service. The service claims to offer speeds of up to 3.6Mbps and is available on an 18-month contract that comes with 3GB of data every month. The ISP claims this is sufficient to send 2,000 plain text emails as well as browse the web for 100 […]
Increasingly, service providers, be they telcos or pay-TV operators, are looking to add media mobility to their portfolio. Euromedia on offer in their region, and we speak to one quad-play operator who sees great benefits from the multi-platform approach correspondents report on what's
Despite suffering at the hands of Virgin over its ITV ownership appeal, it seems Sky channels might be back on Virgin cable next year. According to advertising trade press, during presentations to certain media agencies at the start of the TV trading season Sky Media said it is hopeful of a deal that will see […]
From Branislav Pekic in RomeItalian broadband operator Fastweb plans to connect 4 million homes with fibre optic cable in four years time, according to CEO, Stefano Parisi.Speaking during a Parliamentary inquiry on the development of the telecommunications sector in the country, Parisi said that out of the E31 billion invested in the fixed networks from […]
Europe is leading the way in terms of broadband subscriber growth for the second year running, according to statistics compiled by the Broadband Forum. The report shows that the European region now has nearly 120 million subscribers, 32 per cent of the global broadband market.The stats also show that worldwide broadband subscribers have now surpassed […]
Telecom Italia has launched an online video service delivering live and on-demand streaming content, based on Cisco's CDS platform embedded with Adobe Flash Media Server. The announcement is the latest movement of a telecom service provider to offer its own content delivery network offering, in this case on a network-based platform able to also support […]
The fast growth of broadband has lead the European Commission to bring forward a review of the basic telecoms services Europeans can expect. Current statistics suggest about 36% of households in EU member nations have high-speed net access. When a majority of EU citizens are using a telecoms service, EC rules dictate that it becomes […]
From Colin Mann in FaroPredicting that telco network traffic requirements will increase 100-fold in coming years, Bernd Schumacher, Head of IP Transport at Nokia Siemens Networks told delegates at the NetEvents Press Summit that Carrier Ethernet – the extensions to Ethernet necessary to enable telcos to provide Ethernet services to customers and to utilise Ethernet […]