Danish cable operator TDC’s Q1 revenue increase 0.5 per cent to DKK 6.644 billion (€880m). Profit for the period excluding exceptional totalled DKK 740 million, down by DKK 133 million (15.2 per cent). TDC saw its best quarterly pay-TV subscriber growth with 37,000 additions driven by HomeTrio Mini and YouSee following market changes. The number […]
Zon Multimedia shares rose as much as 1.3 per cent after shareholder Isabel dos Santos increased her stake in Portugal’s biggest cable-television provider to 14.9 per cent. Dos Santos agreed to buy 4.9 per cent of the Zon through her Amsterdam-based holding company Jadeium, adding to the 10 per cent stake she already controlled through […]
Mexican MSO Megacable reported 1.98 million pay-TV subscribers, up 15 per cent y-o-y, with 1.04 million of that number hooked up to the company’s digital services (53 percent of the total). Megacable enjoyed a dramatic shift towards digital during the year, with growth of 78 per cent. Megacable started its digital roll-out a year ago […]
Eutelsat will unveil its Q3 numbers on May 10, and the satellite operator’s revenues are expected to be around €315 million (up about 6.5 per cent on last year). Eutelsat is expected to say that its planned ‘accelerated growth’ for this financial year (to June 30) is working according to plan. However, the market will […]
With cable and satellite TV platforms facing the threat of ‘cord-cutting’ from viewers cancelling their pay-TV subscriptions in favour of connected TV and over-the-top TV alternatives, US cable TV industry trade body the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) has launched a multimedia campaign positioning cable as being ‘More than TV. It’s How We Connect’. […]
Twenty seven cities throughout the UK are in the running to become ‘super-connected’, Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced. The cities are able to bid for a share of a £50 million pot to help them roll out ultrafast-broadband, driving growth and attracting new investment. In the Budget, the Chancellor George Osborne announced the new […]
Virgin Media, the UK’s second-largest broadband provider, has become the first to block access to The Pirate Bay file sharing website after a High Court order. Virgin Media was one of five major broadband firms ordered to block the website on Monday after an application to the High Court by the BPI, a record industry […]
Comcast, the largest cable company in the US, reported a 30 per cent profit increase in the first quarter, beating expectations on the strength of Super Bowl advertising and its popular broadband service. It reported that its net income rose to $1.22 billion between January and March, up from $943 million in the same period […]
Announcing its Q3 results, Sky says it is the nation’s favourite digital TV, broadband and home phone provider. Following a record quarter of growth, more than 3.2 million Sky homes now take the ‘triple play’ of services from Sky, equating to around a third of all Sky homes. Since launching in 2006, the success of […]
Nearly two million homes face disruption to their digital TV signal because of interference from new mobile services, with fears that a government help scheme to combat the problem will fall short. Up to 10,000 homes will no longer be able to receive Freeview at all and will have to get cable or satellite TV […]