As the pay-TV market in the United States continues to lose subscribers, the market in Africa has become a growth story. According to Dataxis, Africa now counts 15.9 million pay-TV subscribers, up 18 percent over 13.4 million in the year-ago quarter. A majority of those subscribers are on a satellite-TV platform but digital terrestrial television […]
Cisco, Ericsson Plot Global IP, Wireless Partnership to Boost Revenues
Cisco and Ericsson today announced a wide-ranging global partnership that will pool the companies’ talents in routing, data center, networking, cloud, mobility, management and control, and global services capabilities. The team up is targeting service provider customers with end-to-end products for new business models and mobile enterprise customers with secure technology architecture for indoor and […]
Court Sides with Broadband Customers, Postpones Sprint Shutdown
Sprint just cannot get its WiMAX network shut down. After having Nov. 6, 2016 set as the official shutdown date for more than a year, Sprint won’t be able to fully turn off the network Friday due to a preliminary injunction handed down by a Massachusetts state court. The ruling comes in response to a […]
Hulu Could Be Worse Than Netflix for Pay TV, Analyst Says
MVPDs are talking about the need to cut back on selling content to Netflix. As Discovery puts it, it isn’t rationale to let Netflix distribute the MVPDs’ content while taking away share from the same MVPDs. But as BTIG analyst Rich Greenfield outlines, selling the same content to Hulu could be an even greater threat […]
T-Mobile Asks FCC to Punish Dish for Spectrum Auction Antics
Dish Network has already had its Designated Entity (DE) discounts revoked by the FCC and ended up having to default on some of the licenses it won in the AWS-3 auction. But T-Mobile wants to make sure Dish and its DEs learn their lesson, and is asking the FCC to enforce harsher penalties. In a […]
TiVo, Viacom Form Ad-Targeting Partnership
Viacom and TiVo Research are forming a partnership to enhance Viacom’s proprietary data and ad solutions. Viacom already offers predictive tools such as Vantage and Echo Social Graph for targeting consumers. But the alliance, which TiVo is its first team-up with a media company, will integrate Viacom Vantage’s advanced predictive engine with TiVo Research’s suite […]
T-Mobile’s Unlimited Netflix Could Hurt Cable’s Usage-Based Pricing Plans
T-Mobile may be running out of mobile customer pain points to alleviate. But if freelance journalist and fairly reputable leaker Evan Blass is right, the un-carrier may have at least one more big trick up its sleeve. Blass says that T-Mobile’s upcoming Un-Carrier X announcement will reveal that the carrier will offer subscribers unlimited high-speed […]
Arris 3Q Revenues Banged Up by AT&T U-verse Shift
Arris Group’s third quarter revenues fell more than 13 percent annually, or $184 million, to $1.22 billion. The drop, along with shrinking fourth quarter guidance, caused a sharp decline in Arris’s stock on Wednesday. During Wednesday afternoon’s earnings call, Arris CEO Robert Stanzione attributed much of the fall to AT&T’s shift away from its U-verse […]
Charter Reverses Video Losses as Internet Drives Most Growth
Charter Communications managed to reverse a video loss trend from a year ago by adding 12,000 net video customers during the third quarter. The swing was even more dramatic when excluding bulk digital upgrades. Charter attributes much of the video growth to its Charter Spectrum product suite, launched in 2014. The operator says Spectrum products […]
Basically Everyone in Cable Just Told the FCC That LTE-U is Bad
The resistance to LTE-Unlicensed technology moving into unlicensed spectrum, currently occupied by Wi-Fi, has been resounding so far throughout the cable industry. But it’s still rare to hear about the kind of who’s who that turned up in FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s office to discuss the potential adverse effects LTE-U could have on critical Wi-Fi […]