Findings from ACG Research’s Q4 2011 worldwide and regional market size and share reports for the Service Provider Video Infrastructure (SPVI) market indicate that the SPVI market grew 5 per cent sequentially to reach $4 billion for the quarter, although down 3 per cent year to year. Regionally, EMEA and the Americas gained quarter-to-quarter; APAC […]
Australian pay-TV operators Foxtel and Austar have agreed to make some of their exclusive content available to Internet Service Providers as part of undertakings to win support from the competition regulator for their A$1.9 billion merger, reports The Australian. It is understood the pair will allow some content to be used by ISPs for IPTV, […]
Canadian cable communications and entertainment company Rogers Communications has unveiled NextBox 2.0, a suite of new features designed to transform the home entertainment experience, allowing people to access live and recorded TV programmes from any room in the home. The initiative better allows it to compete with telco BCE’s Fibe IPTV service. “Canadians are increasingly […]
Liberty Global has announced financial and operating results for the year and the three months ended December 31st, 2011. Highlights include organic RGU additions increased 42 per cent to 1.2 million, revenue up 5 per cent to $9.5 billion and operating income increased 30 per cent to $1.8 billion. Meanwhile, Dutch daily De Telegraaf reported […]
Deutsche Telekom has reported a €1.3 billion loss for 2011 due to a drop in demand in Europe. It would have been worse had it not picked up €3.2 billion in compensation for the collapse of the AT&T deal. Deutsche Telekom did however further increase the number of subscribers to its IPTV service Entertain in […]
Canoe Ventures, the advanced television joint venture of the US’s leading cable companies, is shutting down the bulk of the venture that lets viewers interact with TV ads, laying off 120 employees. It will shift its operation from New York to Denver, where it will concentrate its resources and efforts solely on video-on-demand advertising. In […]
Allot Communications’ latest MobileTrends Report shows that video streaming continued to show significant growth with a 88 per cent increase, and remains the single largest application taking up bandwidth, accounting for 42 per cent of mobile bandwidth. Although having limited impact on the total bandwidth, VoIP and Instant Messaging (VoIP & IM) have gained additional […]
Major cable operators are now building video-optimised content delivery networks (CDNs) that promise to deliver a full range of IP-based video offerings, including richer on-demand and over-the-top services, eventually replacing satellite-based video distribution networks, according to the latest report – Video CDNs to Revolutionize Cable Television Delivery – from Heavy Reading Cable Industry Insider. “Cable […]
Following yesterday’s reports in US press that Cisco was looking to sell Scientific-Atlanta, the company has moved to confirm its commitment to set-top boxes, describing such comments as “erroneous” and “unsourced”. In a Service Provider blog, Corporate Communications head John Earnhardt drew attention to comments made earlier in the month by Cisco Chairman and CEO […]
UK Communications Minister Ed Vaizey said a fund has been set up to collect an ‘interference fund’ from mobile companies who are bidding for 4G mobile spectrum. The new networks will allow home broadband speeds to be delivered to mobile phones, but will cause some interference to existing TV signals. Most users will be able […]