UK quad-play operator Virgin Media lost 36,000 customers in the three months to the end of June, but reported higher income from its remaining customers. According to Virgin Media, 90 per cent of the net disconnections were lower-value single or dual-play customers. The decline brings its total number of cable subscribers to 4.8 million. It […]
Japanese cable operator Jupiter Telecommunications (J:Com) has ended June with a total of 3.52 million households subscribers, up 5.4 per cent year-on-year. Combined revenue generating units (RGUs) for cable television, high-speed Internet access and telephony services reached approximately 6.61 million, up 8.3 per cent from June last year. The bundle ratio (average number of services […]
Australian pay-TV operator Foxtel will consider taking legal action against the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) if it is unsuccessful in overturning the regulator’s preliminary view that its A$1.9 billion acquisition of regional pay-TV group Austar is anti-competitive (see ‘Regulator raises Foxtel Austar bid concerns’, July 22). Foxtel chief executive Kim Williams contends that […]
Australia’s competition regulator has raised concerns that the planned A$2 billion takeover of pay-TV operator Austar by rival Foxtel, part owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, could hurt competition on three fronts. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has delayed its decision on Foxtel’s bid until September, a strong indication that it sees problems […]
US phone giant AT&T surprised the industry by announcing that it had added 202,000 net new U-verse pay-TV subscribers between April and June. This takes its total of pay-TV clients to 3.4 million subscribers, up 36 per cent on a year ago, and ahead of Wall Street estimates. The bad news is that AT&T lost […]
US telco Verizon’s Q2 figures show accelerated revenue growth and improved margins across its business groups, leading to a strong earnings performance in second-quarter 2011. Chairman and CEO Ivan Seidenberg said the company continued to see strong customer demand for FiOS Internet and TV, and for cloud and other strategic services. On a consolidated basis, […]
Romtelecom will stop providing its IPTV Dolce package free of charge this August, according to Romanian business newspaper Ziarul Financiar, citing Ovidiu Ghiman, Romtelecom Chief Strategy and Commercial Residential Officer. The Romanian telco has sent letters to those who have access to the IPTV package, informing them they need to subscribe to an IPTV package […]
Organisers for TelcoTV 2011 have announced the schedule for the tenth anniversary of its well‐regarded conference and tradeshow, taking place this year Oct. 25 to 27 at the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. Celebrating “Ten Years Transforming Telecom and Entertainment,” the three‐day conference program promises value for exhibitors and attendees with education, networking and […]
More than a quarter of the world’s TV households will subscribe to triple-play services of TV, broadband and telephony by 2016, according to Digital TV Research (DTVR). The Triple-Play Forecasts report, which covers 73 countries, estimates that this is up from only 7.1 per cent penetration at end-2010. Report author Simon Murray said that the […]
Four out of ten Europeans households are buying ‘bundled’ Internet, phone and TV services from a single provider, a Eurobarometer survey shows. The survey also found that 65 per cent of people limit their mobile phone calls because of cost and that calls over the Internet are becoming increasingly popular. The E-Communications Household Survey was […]