The global base of cable pay-TV subscribers continued to shrink in 1Q 2013 while that for telco IPTV expanded, according to excerpts from the 2nd edition of Infonetics Research’s “Pay TV Subscriber Database.” “Cable TV and IPTV subscriptions in North…
Growth in the number of telco and satellite TV subscribers fueled a 3% year-over-year gain in the global Pay-TV market over the first six months of 2013, according to the latest data from ABI Research, which forecasts that the number…
The number of multichannel video programming distributor (MVPD) subscribers increased to 101 million from 100.8 million U.S. households between year-end 2010 and June 2012, according to the FCC’s 15th Report to Congress on the status of competition in the U.S….
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ADTRAN®, Inc., (NASDAQ:ADTN), a leading provider of next-generation networking solutions, announced today that CT Communications has increased the throughput of their high-speed broadband services by more than 30 times by leveraging ADTRAN’s Total Access® broadband platform. Optimized for…
So-called “pay-TV refugees” now represent 13%–some 11 million—of U.S. broadband households, according to new research from TDG (The Diffusion Group). Pay-TV service subscriptions have fallen almost 5 percentage points among U.S. broadband TV households since 2010, indicative of the growing…
The global pay-TV market (cable, satellite, and telco IPTV) grew 9.4% in 2012’s first half (1H 2012) year-over-year (YoY) depite persisting economic weakness in the world’s two largest geographic markets, according to the latest data from Infonetics Research. Telco IPTV…
One of the key themes to emerge from the Cloud Services Summit at the TelcoTV conference in Las Vegas on Friday was the idea of offering the network itself as a service. It’s a concept that seems to make a…
The TelcoTV conference in Las Vegas this week is offering service providers a wide range of ideas about how to make money in the video service arena. A keynote by Robert Mudge, president of consumer and mass business at Verizon…
Twelve percent of American viewers were willing to pay as much as $10 per month for a premium video tier and another 5% were willing to pay up to $5, according to a preview of Heavy Reading’s 2012 “State of…
Readers of a certain age who have been around the IPTV world since its early days will remember Myrio Corporation as a once market-leading IPTV middleware platform that kept falling on hard luck. Even though its successor is virtually invisible…
Net subscriber additions for U.S. pay-TV operators dropped nearly 350,000 quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) in 2Q 2012, the largest decline ever recorded, according to the latest data from IHS Screen Digest. Weakening economic conditions and intensifying competition from OTT video services such…
Who would ever have thought traditional broadcast television would be hot again? Consider it a reflection of the economy and the impact of over-the-top video: Years after people pulled down their rooftop antennas and TV sets stopped coming with built-in…
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