BT is accelerating its fibre rollout, it now plans to offer super-fast Internet speeds to two-thirds of UK premises by the end of 2014. The target is a year ahead of its original plan. The UK telco says its main product will offer maximum download speeds about 10 times faster than at present, at 70-100Mbps […]
Time Warner Cable has missed Wall Street forecasts, sending the cable company’s shares down as much 10 per cent, as it lost more video customers than expected and lost phone customers for the first time. The No. 2 US cable operator said its third-quarter profit missed analysts’ expectations due to mounting programming costs and a […]
Online advertising offers a better short-term return on investment (ROI) and sales impact than TV according to GfK’s Media Efficiency Panel research. GfK, which partnered with Google on the research, tracked consumer response to eight major cross-media ad campaigns from FMCG brands that ran last year, and the subsequent sales uplift and ROI during the […]
Telenet, the Belgian cable operator controlled by Liberty Global, has raised its profit forecast as customers sign up to more products and higher-priced broadband Internet and mobile-telephony contracts. Adjusted earnings before EBITDA will increase 7.5 per cent to about €719 million this year, the company said. That compares with an earlier forecast of at least […]
Virgin Media has won back 6,300 cable customers in the third quarter of 2011, partly making up for losses of 36,000 over the summer after students disconnected for the holidays. Financial results showed that revenues grew 2.2 per cent to £1 billion year on year, marking a 3.3 per cent rise for the first nine […]
Farmers Telephone Cooperative(FTC) has deployed xVu, Mariner’s award-winning IPTV service assurance platform. This end-to-end solution ensures quality of TV experience to FTC’s customers while providing operational cost savings through performance insight all the way back to the head-end. FTC has taken advantage of Mariner’s xVu product suite (SupportVu, NetworkVu and ReportVu), from the TV service […]
Intelligent broadband network solutions provider Sandvine has released its 10th Global Internet Phenomena Report: Fall 2011, which indicates increased Netflix and OTT services adoption, the market penetration of revenue-replacement applications, the overall increase in mobile marketplaces, and the impact of Internet-ready consumer electronics devices. Major findings from the report include: -Within fixed networks in the […]
The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE), the US-based cable engineering and standards body, and the Cologne based ANGA Cable Show, a subsidiary of ANGA Association of German Cable Operators, have revealed cooperation agreement in order to mutually promote, enhance and support their respective congress and exhibition events, SCTE Cable-Tec Expo and the ANGA Cable […]
Minerva Networks, a provider of software solutions, has announced the first customer for its new xTVFusion 5 for broadband TV platform, designed to enable operators to deliver richer IPTV experiences to both high- and low-bandwidth subscribers. MobiNet, business unit of Etex Telephone Cooperative based in Texas. USA, has successfully trialed the delivery of television services […]
Two Lancashire men who sold illegal Virgin Media set-top boxes have been told they must pay up £200,000 each, or spend longer in jail. Imran Khansia, 30, and Rafiq Dudhwala, 27, from the northwest England town of Blackburn, were part of a four-man gang given jail sentences that totalled just under 14 years. The boxes […]