Recovering from a slight decline in the second quarter, global broadband subscriber growth is rebounding in the third and fourth quarters as China’s demand for high-speed Internet access soars, according to the market research firm iSuppli Corp. Across the major segments of DSL, cable and fibre, the number of new broadband subscribers worldwide in the […]
The number of fibre-to-the-home subscribers in Europe, including Russia, has increased by 22 per cent over the past six months, thanks to the booming broadband market in the Eastern part of Europe, according to the latest figures from the FTTH Council Europe, announced at the Broadband World Forum in Paris. In absolute numbers, Europe has […]
The television sector in Western Europe is in transition at the moment, according to a report from Informa, as analogue terrestrial TV is expected to become extinct in the region in 2013 and IPTV will continue to gain subscribers over the next five years. Cable is still the biggest pay-TV platform in Western Europe, according […]
Internet technologies have been a catalyst to turn TV into a mash-up of many kinds of content and then bring it to any screen, while TV viewing has become more fragmented according to a report from Pyramid Research. “While content owners can bypass pay-TV operators by going direct to consumers over the Internet, the operators’ […]
The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has revealed that pay-TV in Asia has reached the tipping point of 50 per cent penetration of all Asian TV homes. This development opens the door to massive growth in ad revenues over the next five years. According to Asia Pacific pay-TV industry research carried out […]
According to an annual piracy survey by CASBAA and Standard Chartered Bank – is that over $2 billion will have been lost to piracy this year. CASBAA noted that this loss, while high, does not include revenues lost to Internet piracy. Also research undertaken by PwC reveals that at least $262 million is lost annually […]
Consumer interest in connected CE devices – particularly connected TVs and Blu-ray players – has been slow to develop, predominantly as a result of a lack of industry and retail push, and a glut of competing solutions which are already providing swift and
The number of European households with a connected TV will grow from less than four million in 2009 to 47 million in 2014. The number of households with a connected Blu-ray player will jump from five million in 2010 to approximately 66 million in 2014, according
European households connected to cable TV fell from 34 per cent to 30 per cent between 2008 and 2009, giving a loss of around 8 million TV households, according to research by Strategy Analytics. These losses are believed to have been to the benefit of DTT, as the share of European households using DTT services […]
NexTV Dataxis notes that in 2010 there were already 6.9 million Digital Cable subscribers in Latin America, with the basis of Digital Cable subscribers in the region had increased by nearly 14 times since 2005. NexTV Dataxis forecasts that by 2015 there would be 22 million Digital Cable subscribers in Latin America, a figure that […]