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Pay TV Operators
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Liberty Global CTO Rodriguez fills in on 10G strategy – no fast move to DOCSIS 4.0
Liberty Global is “not going to be the leader on speed of deployment” of DOCSIS…
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Virgin Media O2 strikes pact with DAZN for PPV boxing, app set-top access
UK cable operator Virgin Media O2 and sports streamer DAZN~ have struck a distribution deal…
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Polsat Plus Group denies report on possible Ukrainian bank acquisition
Polish free and pay TV and telecom operator Polsat Plus Group has denied reports that…
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US fibreco Frontier offering YouTube TV with integrated billing as cable alternative
YouTube has struck a partnership with US fibre broadband provider Frontier Communications whereby the latter…
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United Group’s Nova passes 400k subscribers
United Group-owned Greek pay TV outfit Nova – formerly known as Forthnet – has passed…
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KPN appoints new CTO and consumer markets chief
Dutch telco KPN has announced a number of changes to its senior leadership team. Wouter…
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Philippines TAPDMV launches four additional channels on ABS-2
Filipino media company TAP Digital Media Ventures Corporation (TAPDMV) has extended its satellite broadcast partnership…
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Exclusive! Are aggregators having second thoughts about exclusivity?
‘Exclusive’ and ‘Original’ content have always been treated as the holy grail of the TV…
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Altice USA names Fonseca as chairman
Altice USA has named Altice Group co-CEO Alexandre Fonseca as its new chairman, replacing Dexter…
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Italy’s Fastweb names new CEO
Walter Renna, currently Fastweb’s head of product design and delivery, is to take over as…
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Pay-TV subscribers in Eastern Europe is to fall by 8m by 2028
The number of pay-TV subscribers in Eastern Europe is expected to fall by 8 million…
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Iliad’s Niel slams Orange call for higher unbundling charges, demands faster transition to fibre
Iliad Telecom boss Xavier Niel has slammed Orange’s call for an increase in unbundling fees…
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FCC aims to mandate ‘all-in’ cable and pay TV pricing
US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel has said she wants to mandate cable…
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Liberty Global makes cash offer for Telenet
Liberty Global has provided a cash offer to Telenet for all of shares that it…
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BT taps AWS Wavelength for 5G and 4G mobile edge computing services
BT has tapped AWS Wavelength to deliver 5G and 4G mobile edge computing services to…
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Allente: pay TV and linear content still a strength for operators
Traditional pay TV and a focus on local linear content still has considerable strength despite…
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Orange Belgium secures EC approval for Voo takeover
The European Commission has approved Orange Belgium’s acquisition of a 75% stake in Wallonia-region cable…
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Vodafone steps back from exclusivity, with focus on expanding content
European telco provider and pay-TV operator, Vodafone plans to move away from exclusive deals and…
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Tele Columbus targets wholesale market with new appointment
German cable operator Tele Columbus has appointed Peer Lodbrok to as wholesale director in a…
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Netgem to complete sale of Videofutur on April 1
Technology and service provider Netgem will complete the sale of its French Videofutur service provider…
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Virgin Media O2 eyes CityFibre
Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) is reportedly eyeing a £3 billion takeover of the UK independent…
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Vodafone expands 5G network in Spain
Vodafone Spain is to expand its 5G network to 65% of the Spanish population including…
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Philippines’ ABS-CBN sells pay TV and broadband unit to country’s largest telco
Philippines broadcaster ABS-CBN is to sell its cable TV and broadband subsidiary Sky Cable to…
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Tele Columbus COO to quit
German cable operator Tele Columbus’s chief operations officer Roland Schleicher is to leave the company….
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Moonbug Kids channel launches in Czech Republic with O2
Candle Entertainment-owned Moonbug Entertainment has teamed up with telco O2 to launch Moonbug Kids Channel in the…
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Iliad sees huge growth across three countries
Iliad Group, which operates fixed and mobile networks in France, Italy and Poland, saw massive…
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Comcast launches programme to mentor Generative AI startups
Cable and media giant Comcast has opened applications for the first of a series of…
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M7 strikes satellite distribution deal with BBC Studios
Canal+-owned M7 Group has struck a multi-year capacity deal with BBC Studios for the HD satellite…
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Astro taps Airties for WiFi
Malaysian pay TV operator Astro has tapped WiFi technology specialist Airties to provide software and…
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PCTV extends coverage with Eutelsat
PCTV, the headend-in-the-sky subsidiary of Mexican cable operator Megacable Comunicaciones, has boosted its capacity on…