The Zayo Group today announced it is acquiring Allstream, a Canadian bandwidth and telecom services provider, for $348 million. In addition to adding Allstream’s about $449 million in annual revenue, Zayo will also get access to the Allstream’s metro and long-haul fiber networks and the company’s colocation business. Allstream has a 5,592 route miles of […]
Comcast, TWC Notched 71 Percent of Total Broadband Subscriber Growth
Over the past 12 months, U.S. broadband subscriptions have grown by three million. According to Strategy Analytics, Comcast and Time Warner Cable together accounted for a whopping 71 percent of that total. A good chunk of that total came during the third quarter, when Strategy Analytics says the cable industry added 804,000 new broadband subscribers—with […]
Cisco Wants Everyone to Start Video Conferencing More
Video conferencing isn’t the most fun thing in the world. It’s difficult to have floating heads join a meeting and not have them end up being the focus of everyone’s attention. Cisco might not be able to fix that but the company is seeking to improve the interoperability and collaborative aspects of video conferencing with […]
MGM, Lionsgate Invest in, Add Content to Tubi TV
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM) and Lionsgate are the latest content providers to jump on board with ad-supported VOD service Tubi TV. Both MGM and Lionsgate will make an equity investment in and license content to the service, including Midnight Cowboy, Crash, Rain Man, and The Hurt Locker. Those titles and more will add to the 40,000 […]
Cable is Still Crushing Telcos in Total Broadband Subscriber Numbers
The numbers are in for the third quarter of 2015 and according to Leichtman Research Group, cable is still way out ahead of telcos in terms of broadband subscribers. The group’s new numbers show that the top 17 cable operators and telcos in the United States jointly control 94 percent of the broadband Internet market, […]
Liberty Global Picks ARRIS Touchstone TG2492 Gateway
Liberty Global is going with the ARRIS Touchstone TG2492 Gateway for wide-scale deployment across its footprint. That means ARRIS’s flagship gateway will go out to 27 million customers across Liberty’s brands including Virgin Media. The Touchstone is built for fast broadband and streaming. The CPE uses EuroDOCSIS 3.0 wireless EMTA featuring up to 24 x […]
Ericsson Launching Its Own Streaming Video Service Called NuVu
Ericsson is jumping into the fray with the likes of Netflix and Hulu with the launch of its own subscription video-on-demand service called NuVu. But at first, Ericsson won’t be competing in the established North American SVOD market. NuVu will launch in the first quarter of 2016 in Nigeria as part of a partnership with […]
CableLabs Launching Wireless Conference in April
CableLabs today announced it will hold its first Inform[ed]: Wireless conference in New York City in April 2016. Inform[ed]: Wireless will focus on “technologies, strategies, and policies that will shape next-generation wireless services in a new era of fixed and mobile network convergence.” Specifically, the agenda will address fixed-mobile, unlicensed LTE technologies, small cells, 5G […]
ATSC 3.0 Could Mean $12B-$20B Extra Revenue for Broadcasters
A shift toward the emerging ATSC 3.0 standard could have significant positive revenue impacts for broadcasters if projections from the Pearl TV consortium are on target. According to TV Newscheck, Pearl says a full implementation of ATSC 3.0 could help the broadcast TV industry generate another $20 billion per year. Even if broadcasters don’t implement […]
U.S. Fiber Deployments Grew by 13 Percent in 2015
A new study from RVA, commissioned by the Fiber to the Home (FTTH) Council Americas, shows fiber deployments in the United States grew at a healthy rate in 2015. Nearly three million new U.S. homes were passed with fiber this year, marking a 13 percent increase and taking the total to 26 million homes. “Now, […]