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Research: Double-play steals triple-play’s thunder in US

Shifting user demand and cost considerations mean triple-play offers now only represent about a third of service bundles marketed online by cable companies and telecom providers, which are increasingly shifting their focus to double-play bundles. Additionally, Internet connectivity is now the core feature of the bundles being offered, according to data and analytics company GlobalData. […]

April 20, 2021

CMA provisionally clears Virgin/O2 merger

The UK’s Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally cleared the proposed merger of Virgin Media and Virgin Mobile with O2. Both Virgin and O2 provide certain wholesale services to other mobile network operators in the UK, as well as retail services to consumers. The CMA was clear at the outset of its in-depth inquiry […]

April 14, 2021By Colin Mann

Televisa, Univision assets merger

In what the pair describe as a landmark transaction, Grupo Televisa and Univision Holdings have announced a definitive transaction agreement in which Televisa’s content and media assets will be combined with Univision to create the largest Spanish-language media company in the world: Televisa-Univision. The combination brings together the two leading media businesses in the two […]

April 14, 2021

Analysis: Broadband outranks pay-TV in W Europe

The number of Western European pay-TV subscribers will fall by 4 million between 2020 and 2026 to 103 million, according to the Western Europe Pay TV Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. Reflecting the importance of high-speed broadband for homes, IPTV is the top pay-TV platform by subscribers. IPTV will gain 4 million […]

April 8, 2021

BT expands 5G network

BT has started expanding its 5G network across the UK as lockdown begins to lift. Outlaying the plans, Marc Allera, CEO at BT Consumer Division, commented: “As restrictions gradually start to ease across the UK in the coming weeks, so our mobility will start to increase. After months of working over high-quality video calls, staying […]

April 8, 2021By Nik Roseveare

Report: US net performed well during pandemic

A report from industry body the Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group (BITAG) analysing US Internet performance over the course of the pandemic has found that that the ecosystem as a whole saw very few widespread disruptions for consumers, businesses and organisations, even as traffic reached unprecedented volume and hundreds of millions of Americans worked and […]

April 6, 2021

UK ministers welcome broadband jobs boom

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden have met with broadband industry leaders and praised the sector for creating more than 22,000 jobs over the last year as forecasts for gigabit rollout are revised further upwards. They welcomed the firms’ work to help the nation build back better from the pandemic with […]

April 6, 2021By Colin Mann

Ireland: Survey highlights broadband importance

The latest Connectivity Survey from Ireland’s electronic communications sector regulator ComReg highlights the important role of broadband services for remote working and the likely take-up of faster broadband services in the future. The survey, conducted by Red C Research, finds that 79 per cent of people consider home broadband to be important, rising to 95 […]

March 31, 2021

Acorn TV on Netgem TV platform

Telco TV specialist Netgem has confirmed the launch of streaming service Acorn TV, claiming it as another ‘UK first’ addition to Netgem TV, the end-to-end TV service powering the UK’s growing community of Altnets and challenger ISPs. The service is available for £4.99 (€5.85) per month after a 30-day free trial. Users who sign up […]

March 31, 2021

Telco buyers reveals most influential analysts

A report on the most influential analyst house – featured as part of an independent survey commissioned by B2B technology PR agency CCgroup, produced in collaboration with Sapio Research – placed the top three as: 1. Strategy Analytics 2. Gartner 3. Juniper Research The new report surveyed over 100 technology buying decision makers across ten […]

March 31, 2021