The UK Digital Economy Act, has again been delayed until at least 2014, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport has admitted. The Act was rushed through at the end of the Labour administration in 2010 but has been stalled by legal challenges. ISPs have criticised aspects of the Act, suggesting it would unfairly force […]
Time Warner Cable, the second-largest US cable-television provider, has reported improved first-quarter financials, but said it lost 94,000 residential video subscribers to end March with about 12.47 million. In the period last year it had lost 42,000 subscribers. First-quarter earnings of $383 million rose 18 per cent from $326 million in the year-ago period. Revenue […]
US-based fibre optic network provider Salsgiver is to trial Amino’s Freedom Jump OTT device as part of a premium service offering to their customers. Under the gotlit.com brand, Freeport PA-based Salsgiver has rolled out a fibre network across an area north east of Pittsburgh, offering high quality broadband and phone services. Now the company is […]
King Abdul-Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) has selected the high-capacity Ka-band satellite system from ViaSat as the service platform for its National Satellite Data Network in Saudi Arabia based on the system’s ability to deliver exceptional broadband speeds. The KACST contract, valued at approximately $70 million, includes gateways, network operation facilities, and end […]
Sandvine has released its Internet traffic trends report based on data from a selection of Sandvine’s 200-plus customers spanning North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Caribbean and Latin America and Asia-Pacific. “Aggregate reports like our Global Internet Phenomena shed light on the Internet as a whole and inform operators on trends relevant to their […]
Reporting its Q1 2012, Virgin Media says it is making steady progress against forecasts. Most notable is the incline by 1.7 per cent year on year in the ARPU to £46.95 (€57) boosted by further penetration for TiVo, up 242,000 to 677,000 or 18 per cent of the subs base. Turnover was up 2.4 per […]
Following more than 10 months of comprehensive testing in urban and rural areas in and around Cambridge, England, the Cambridge TV White Spaces Consortium, which comprises leading international and UK technology and media companies, has successfully demonstrated the potential of television white spaces. The consortium explored and measured a range of applications — rural wireless […]
German cable company PrimaCom, which was taken over by its lenders in 2011 after its parent’s insolvency, is being put up for sale as German regulators pave the way for consolidation among smaller network operators, reports Bloomberg. Investment bank Jefferies Group Inc has been hired to prepare the search for a buyer, said Bloomberg sources. […]
Agama Technologies, the DTV quality assurance expert, has announced an expanding footprint across Latin America, with two leading telecommunications operators in the region having selected the Agama DTV Monitoring Solution for IPTV quality assurance. The installations will help the telcos keeping service quality high and problem discovery quick and efficient, ultimately enabling an effective IPTV […]
EchoStar Technologies is withdrawing from the US cable set-top box market and is to cease development of its Aria platform immediately as a result of poor sales, the company told Multichannel News. Instead, the company is to shift resources to support what it describes as it “unique intellectual property and advanced content-delivery technologies”. The company […]