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This is the fourth of Ofcom’s annual reports to focus on trends and developments in the UK’s communications market, with the aim of providing a context for decision-making by Ofcom, as well as by commercial and public sector organisations. The communi
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The battle to offer services to the digital consumer is fiercely competitive with companies as diverse as Virgin Media, Sky, BT, Orange and Carphone Warehouse offering different "bundles" of TV, broadband and telephony.While Virgin is currently the only c
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TV is going to open up to the masses. It will no longer be controlled by the big cable or satellite players. Just like with the web, TV will become a much more efficient medium by turning itself into an open network where everyone can participate. Your d
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e Internet which for the moment is free but will turn into a cash generator in the future. ADVERTISEMENT if(window.yzq_d==null)window.yzq_d=new Object(); window.yzq_d['GtBBRNGDJGY-']='&U=13a55mj06%2fN%3dGtBBRNGDJGY-%2fC%3d569937.9924966.10714868.1442997%2
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In order to watch TV on the console, though, customers need to have an ISP that plans to offer the service across their network. Phone companies are the ones deploying IPTV as a way of competing with cable, so it's no coincidence that the five partners Mi
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Nach dem kommerziellen Start von Bluewin TV im November vergangenen Jahres haben sich laut Zürcher Sonntagszeitung bereits 20.000 Haushalte für das Fernsehen via Breitbandnetz angemeldet. Doch sollen erst gut 10.000 Installationen ausgeführt worden sei
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17% were already watching on-demand programmes on their television sets. Some 42% of those already viewing video-on-demand reported watching less television as a result. The same percentage believe that traditional television scheduling will no longer ex
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So Microsoft, having failed in the past to gain much traction in the set-top box business, is using the Xbox to try again. But instead of trying to sell it to the entrenched cable companies, it will pitch the Xbox set-top box to new entrants into the TV
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In fact, if you read the fine print of AT&T's proposed agreement with the FCC, you will find that it wants to exclude its planned IPTV network from any Net Neutrality rules. IPTV is the technology the telcos want to use to compete with cable companies a
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In ten years’ time, the difference between the telcos that succeed and cable companies will largely be defined by their respective histories. For those that fail, we won’t be making any comparisons. Just don’t write them off too soon.
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Over the next 12 to 18 months, we will see a continuation of large scale fibre announcements from the various incumbent telcos around the globe. Key leaders include the telcos in Japan, Korea, USA, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, France and th
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The initial rollout of the home entertainment service - which combines video-on-demand functionality and Freeview channels - is likely to be low level, with a big push planned for spring next year. IPTV subscribers will reach just 29.5m worldwide in 2010
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Now, the Bells’ chief competitors are Time Warner Cable, Comcast and other cable providers that have the technology, armies of installers and marketing budgets to lure away video and phone customers. By the end of the year, for instance, cable operators
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It says it has more than doubled the number of its FiOS TV customers in Q3--63K subscribers were added, bringing the total to 118K as of Sept. 30. Verizon said it’s on track to hit 175K TV subscribers by year-end.
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The BT network was simply not designed to deliver video, and does not support multicasting, making it uneconomic to distribute live television channels. For this reason, the BT Vision service will combine broadcast programming delivered over the air throu
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Major League Baseball has taken a big step towards the future of what we now call TV. That future doesn’t include channels. More importantly, it turns cablecos (and telcos trying to be cablecos) into dumb pipes. They’re not going to like that but w
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On the PC side, the files are going to be encoded in mp4/m4p and Flash format, which means you can either stream your "paid for" movies directly from either a browser or a third party app, or download the mp4/m4p to watch on your computer
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Auf der Siete kann jeder ein Video hochladen. Jeder ausgewählte Clip, der auf der Seite gezeigt ist T-Com 250,- Euro wert. Die Clips werden dann von T-Com außerdem noch auf andere Seiten syndiziert und laufen dort als Werbung für T-Com.
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By 2015, Kagan Research expects TV programming delivered by telcos to grow to a 9% market-from its 0.1% share today. Cable networks will take the biggest hit if this happens--dropping to 61.1% from their current levels of 69.6%.
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Frost & Sullivan believes it is the overall user experience that will ultimately determine the success or failure of IPTV. A holistic end user experience will be the real "king" in IPTV land.
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Verizon muss $700-$1,000 Pro Kunden ausgeben um dorthin die FiOS zu legen. Doppelt soviel wie AT&T. Verizon will so auch Triple Play anbieten, weil die Kunden da länger bleiben und nicht mehr wegwechseln. Lizenzierungsschwierigkeiten.
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Forrester Prognostiziert der Telekom einen Verlust pro Kunden von 1330 Euro. Die Hohen Investitionen in Glasfaser sind Schuld. Telekom sitze einem Hype auf, der sich nicht lohnen könne, weil die Kunden dank wettberwerb nicht bereit sind premium preise zu
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Die französische Telekom Tochter Club Internet wird in Frankreich für seine 500 000 Kunden IPTV auf basis der Mircosoft TV Lösung anbieten. Es ist ein Test für ähnliche Angebote in Deutschland und den UK.
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Die Telekom verhandelt mit dem großen Senderfamilien über IPTV. Sie streiten sich allerdings wer Zahlen muss Telekom oder Sender. Die Sender wollen auf jedenfall Geld sehen. Auch Arcor will Mitmischen.
