Time Warner Cable is launching a marketing campaign aimed at former subscribers. The company says it will spend at least $50 million on broadcast, print, online and direct mail ads for the campaign, which it is calling “The Better Guarantee.” The ads admit the cable service did not always live up to expectations in the […]
A Virgin Media survey has revealed that 90 per cent of UK consumers won’t change mobile operators just for 4G, with most thinking the service is too expensive. The Internet service provider carried out a survey of 2,000 smartphone subscribers, 1,800 of which answered that they won’t be switching to a 4G mobile operator yet. […]
An appeals court has struck down a rule issued by the US telecommunications regulator to allow customers to watch cable and satellite TV on “plug and play” televisions, replacing set top boxes. Dish Network Corp objected to the rule because it included prescriptions on encrypting programming that prevented Dish and others from, for example, making […]
SCTE (the Society for Broadband Professionals, formed in 1945) has unveiled a major new initiative, the formation of SCTE India, to boost the future of the Indian broadband industry by supporting increasing numbers of trained and accredited engineers and technicians in the country. SCTE’s India initiative propels wireline engineers and technicians onto the global broadband […]
Liberty Global has announced that 9,497,637 ordinary shares and 3,000 warrants were tendered into the voluntary and conditional cash offer from its wholly-owned subsidiary Binan Investments on December 18th 2012 for the outstanding shares and other securities giving access to voting rights of Telenet it didn’t already own. Following acceptance of the tendered shares, Liberty […]
The number of FTTH lines in Spain has doubled year-on-year to 288,012, and now represents 2.5 per cent of all fixed bandwidth lines in the country, according to a report from Telefonica called “The Information Society in Spain 2012”. Households are increasingly embracing FTTH with a growth of 138.2 per cent in 2012 from 101,000 […]
Cryptography Research, a division of Rambusand ALi Corporation, a provider of set-top box (STB) system-on-chip (SoC) solutions, has announced that ALi has completed integration of the CRI CryptoFirewall security technology into its multimedia STB SOC products. The CryptoFirewall core will be available in the ALi DVB-S2, DVB-C, DVB-T2, ISDB-T, and IP STB chipsets beginning in […]
BT Vision has signed Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN), to bring leading TV entertainment channels, MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon, to BT Vision’s line-up of linear channels. Marc Watson, BT’s chief executive of TV, said: “We’re really excited about these channels coming to BT Vision – we’re certain our viewers will love them. MTV is […]
In the latest cable versus broadcaster argument over carriage fees, a dispute between Raycom Media and Cox Communications was seemingly resolved late on January 4th. Raycom operates a series of local stations including the important CBS affiliate in Tucson, Arizona and NBC affiliate in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Raycom’s 8 stations were taken down for 48 […]
AirTies Wireless Networks is providing British Sky Broadcasting with wireless connectors that allow Sky TV users to wirelessly access Sky’s TV on demand service. The wireless connectors enable Sky customers to access a comprehensive library of TV on demand by simply connecting Sky+ HD set-top boxes to the existing home gateway. Bulent Celebi, Executive Chairman […]