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Amidst Epic Pandemic Driven Sports Fees Debate, Amazon and NFL Strike Streaming Deal
Amazon’s new NFL streaming deal comes in the middle of a brewing epic battle between TV networks and pay-TV providers over monthly…
With So Many People Home, Free Video Programming and Streaming Services Gain Favor
Free video programming and streaming services are launching daily, as service providers angle to support the new reality created by the COVID-19 crisis.
Video Doorbell Research: Amazon Ring Tops in Market Share with 16% of Households Opting In
Video doorbell research from Strategy Analytics found that 20M U.S. households use video doorbells.It’s a hot sub-category within the broader smart home
Connected Home Over IP Standard Effort Aims to Bridge, Interconnect Leading Connected Home Platforms
The Connect Home over IP standard has the backing of the Zigbee Alliance, Amazon, Apple and Google. One goal of the standard is to…
CEO: Verizon Mobile Edge Computing Should Generate “Meaningful” Revenues in 2020
Verizon mobile edge computing will support public and private cloud applications, said Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg at an investor conference.
Amazon AWS, Verizon 5G Partnership for Mobile Edge Computing Raises Interoperability Questions
AWS Wavelength puts computing resources in data centers at the edge of Verizon’s network to enable single digit millisecond latency.
Verizon Steps Up its 5G Home Game with New Chicago Launch
The Verizon 5G Home fixed wireless service launching in Chicago will use industry standard equipment and will include an Amazon Alexa speaker built into the router.
Parks: Households with Multiple OTT Video Subscriptions Increase 130% Since 2014
Partnerships, aggregation, and bundling are driving an increase in households with multiple OTT video subscriptions, said Parks Associates. Forty-six percent of households today . . .
Report Finds 74% of U.S. Households with SVOD Subscriptions
The percentage of U.S. households with SVOD subscriptions increased 10% over last year. Nearly two thirds (64%) of adults stream an SVOD service at least monthly, and 41% stream more than one SVOD . . .
Report: Small Business Faces Challenges Selling Online, Amazon Often Viewed as the Bad Guy
A report from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance about small business selling online found that 93% said Amazon had negatively impacted their revenues. One in six of the 500 retailers . . .
Parks Finds 39% of Broadband Households with Streaming Media Players
The percentage of households with streaming media players may have hit a plateau, as growth was just 1% over the last year. Purchase intentions, however, are up from . . .
Amid New Competition, Researchers See Strong Demand for a Netflix Ad-Supported Service
One third of current subscribers would consider moving to a Netflix ad-supported service, according to TDG. Such a service could be…
Report: Roku Strengthens Top Position for Streaming TV Market Share, Amazon Fire TV a Distant Second
Streaming TV market share research from Strategy Analytics found Roku with more than 30% of the market, even though Amazon has been making strong moves in the . . .
Amazon, Comcast Team Up for First Pay-TV, Amazon Music Integration
A new Amazon Music Comcast deal enables customers using the service provider’s X1 or Flex platforms to access the streaming music…
Report: LEO Satellite Broadband Could Save U.S. Consumers More Than $30 Billion
SpaceX and Amazon have plans to offer low earth orbit satellite broadband throughout the U.S. BroadbandNow looked at the potential impact of LEO satellite broadband by . . .
Cox Adds Amazon Prime Video App To Contour; Now Accompanies Netflix, YouTube And More
Report: Cord Cutters Not Turning to Streaming vMVPD Alternatives in Big Numbers
An analysis of video cord cutting economics from MoffettNathanson reports services like Sling TV, Hulu Live TV, and YouTube TV aren’t filling the cord cuttung gap, at least not as much as expected.
Bluebird, Megaport Partner on Cloud Access
The Bluebird, Megaport deal will enable more secure access to a range of cloud providers, including Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and others.
Report: Expensive Pay-TV is Driving TV Antenna Adoption, Younger Demo Embracing It
New TV antenna market research from Horowitz Research found TV antennas for local broadcast signals closely tied to streaming SVOD services, but not exclusively.
Windstream Enterprise Integrates Unified Communications with Amazon Alexa
Parks: Subscription OTT ARPU Growth is Relatively Flat, But Changes May be Coming
Parks Associates research on OTT monthly spending reveals relatively flat growth for the past three years. Parks says OTT ARPU comes in at …
Report: Smart Speaker Sales Reached 38.5 Million in 4Q 2018, More Than All of 2017
Amazon was the smart speaker sales leader, selling 13.7 million units for a 35.5% share, said Strategy Analytics. Google shipped 11.5 million units and had a market share of 30%.
Amazon to Acquire eero to Help Customers Better Connect Smart Home Devices
eero’s home mesh WiFi systems set up in minutes and blanket every room of a customer’s home in high-performing, reliable WiFi.
Internet2 E-CAS Project Will Tap AWS, Google Cloud for Scientific Research
The Internet2 E-CAS project aims to advance scientific research by giving the research and education community the ability to quickly spin up cloud resources, to use graphical processing units and other capabilities delivered from . . .