Conax, a global provider of solutions for protecting multi-device digital content, has announced its contract with Grupo TV Cable in Ecuador. Together with partner Evolution Digital LLC who provides competitive STBs, Conax has deployed a highly cost effective and flexible content security solution for enabling Grupo TV Cable with smooth digital migration and additional services […]
Spain’s largest cable operator, ONO, is relying on its added-value TV service TiVo in an attempt to soften the pay TV decline. The company ended the first half of the year with 897,000 pay TV subscribers against 952,000 clients a year earlier. However its TiVo service, available to 92 per cent of its network, captured […]
Modern Times Group (MTG), the international entertainment broadcasting group, has signed an agreement to acquire 80 per cent of Zitius Service Delivery from Quadracom AB for an undisclosed cash consideration. The agreement also provides for the acquisition of the remaining 20 per cent of Zitius in 2016. Zitius is Sweden’s leading independent Open Access Communications […]
Included in the July 26th launch of the Google Fiber 1 Gbps fibre-to-the home network in Kansas City was confirmation from the information and search giant of Google Fibre TV over the network. Promising not just high definition television, but “the highest quality” courtesy of the 1 Gbps connection, Kevin Lo, General Access Manager, said […]
Announcing its Q1 results, UK telco TalkTalk has confirmed the launch of Free TV for its TalkTalk Plus customers. Dido Harding, Chief Executive of TalkTalk, said customers would be able to pre-register immediately for their free YouView set-top box with no additional monthly subscription. The package also includes TalkTalk Player, 12 months free subscription to […]
Credit ratings agency Fitch Ratings believes that higher programming costs and increasing forms of alternative entertainment will challenge both cable network programmers and pay-TV distributors going forward, suggesting in a market commentary that pay-TV providers face additional costs and a reduced ability to pass those increases off to a mostly more vulnerable customer base that […]
NBC has confirmed that is to repeat its exercise of offering full-episode, pre-sampling versions of its new fall (autumn) series prior to the network time-period premières as each new primetime programme will receive a digital sampling window for marketing and promotional purposes over multiple platforms leading into the regular series première As NBC takes advantage […]
Ofcom has said it is “fully prepared for litigation” should any of the networks decide to sue, following the much-disputed spectrum auction, which will bring 4G superfast mobile Internet to the UK next year. Debate about the largest sale of British airwaves has dragged on for years, with each of the four networks threatening to […]
Several UK Internet service providers have refused to sign a code of conduct designed to guarantee “full and open access” to the net. Ten ISPs including BT, O2 and TalkTalk backed the agreement, promising not to restrict or block content unless there was a reason to deploy “reasonable traffic management practices”. But Virgin Media said […]
Market research firm Infonetics Research has released excerpts from its July Fixed-Mobile/CDN Routing Strategies and Router Leadership: Global Service Provider Survey, for which carriers with carrier Ethernet switches (CES) and IP edge routers were interviewed to assess their needs and analyse trends in the router and CES market. “The three-headed monster of video, mobility, and […]