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Pay TV Operators
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Cable must “move on” from triple-play
Broadband is driving cable’s RGU growth but digital TV is driving its ARPU growth, while…
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4K ‘not an immediate concern’, says Liberty Global CEO
Ultra HD, also known as 4K, is “not an immediate concern” with consumers not yet…
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Ziggo targets bigger WiFi push
Dutch cable operator Ziggo said that it aims to launch more WiFi hotspots in a…
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DOCSIS 3.1 ‘ahead of schedule’
Development of the new DOCSIS 3.1 standard is tracking “slightly ahead of schedule,” with the…
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Cable operators must embrace mobile, says Liberty Global
Cable operators will increasingly find it hard to compete if they don’t offer mobile services,…
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Liberty Global joins RDK venture as third JV member
Liberty Global has joined the Reference Design Kit (RDK) joint venture, joining existing members Comcast…
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TiVo tops 2.5 million in Europe
TiVo has passed the 2.5 million subscriber milestone in Europe for the first time. TiVo…
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Debt and public markets both benefiting cable
Debt financing is characterised by rising yields and interest going up, but debt remains very…
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Unitymedia KabelBW taps Arris for CCAP edge router
Liberty Global-owned German cable operator Unitymedia KabelBW has deployed Arris’s E6000 Converged Edge router, the…
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Bouygues ups cash offer for SFR
French telecoms-to-construction conglomerate Bouygues has upped the cash component of its offer for Vivendi-owned SFR…
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VimpelCom introduces new offer for TV
Russian service provider VimpelCom has launched a promotional offer for three new bundled pacakges free…
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Cable Europe names annual award winners
Cable Europe awarded its 2013 Fellow award to Emma Svalin Sahlman, head of product, TV…
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Numericable shares drop as it holds out for SFR deal
French cable operator Numericable’s controlling shareholder Altice has set a deadline of Friday for its…
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Com Hem launches 1Gbps internet
Swedish cable operator Com Hem has begun rolling out a new 1Gbps internet service. The…
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Comcast cuts House of Cards deal, mulls own YouTube-type service
US cable giant Comcast has acquired rights to sell season one of Netflix original House of…
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Belgacom extends TV everywhere to Windows Phone
Belgian telco Belgacom has made its TV Partout/TV Overal TV everywhere service available on the…
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Rostelecom offers 100 movies for RUB100
Russian service provider Rostelecom has launched a new promotional offer for its video-on-demand service, making…
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MTG raises SEK1 billion in refinancing effort
European broadcasting firm Modern Times Group (MTG) has raised SEK 1 billion (€113 million) in…
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Deutsche Telekom migrates to Skylines DataMiner
Deutsche Telekom is using Skyline’s DataMiner network management platform for the end-to-end management of its…
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Digitürk upgrades with Grass Valley
Turkish satellite pay TV provider Digitürk is to expand its broadcast facility with the addition…
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Orange CEO confirms Netflix French plan
Orange’s CEO Stéphane Richard confirmed at the end of last week that Netflix plans to…
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ONO shareholders weigh up IPO vs Vodafone
ONO’s shareholders are to meet this Thursday to decide whether to press ahead with plans…
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Bouygues in deal to sell mobile net to Free to secure SFR
Bouygues Telecom has entered into exclusive talks with Iliad Telecom to sell its mobile telecom…
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Live TV dominates kids TV viewing
New research suggests that almost 90% of UK kids TV viewing is of live programming….
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BBC lobbying for licence fee hike
The BBC will push for an inflation-based increase in its annual licence fee, according to…
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beIN Sport to roll out across MENA with Pace
Al Jazeera-owned beIN Sport has chosen Pace to deliver home media servers and HD set-top…
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T-Hrvatski Telekom launches new motorsport offering
Deutsche Telekom-owned Croatian telco T-Hrvatski Telekom is to show Formula 1 motor-racing on its MAXtv…
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PayWizard and Conax form multiscreen pact
TV payment firm PayWizard has partnered with content security specialist Conax to provide to provide…
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FilmoTV to launch first French SVOD service for Playstation
French subscription video-on-demand service FilmoTV has partnered with multi-screen app firm Dotscreen to launch what they…
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Sport 2 HD on Skylink
M7 Group-owned Czech and Slovak pay TV service Skylink has added the Sport 2 HD…