Cable & IPTV

Portugal Telecom reports strongest pay TV growth for two years

Portugal Telecom ended March with 1.111 million pay TV customers following its strongest quarter for over two years. The telco attracted 69,000 new Meo pay… Read more

Motorola Mobility updates KreaTV

Motorola Mobility has updated KreaTV, its operating system for IP set-top boxes. Version 4.4 offers web browsing, as well as HTTP Live Streaming, including support… Read more

Kabel Deutschland to acquire Tele Columbus

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Germany’s leading cable operator Kabel Deutschland (KDG) is to acquire Tele Columbus, according to a report in the Financial Times Deutschland. The paper reports that… Read more

Netia sees IPTV growth

Polish service provider Netia had 61,800 IPTV subscribers at the end of the first quarter, up 22% from the end of last year. ARPU from… Read more

Rostelecom launches new multiscreen TV service, aims to add 500K subs this year

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Russian service provider Rostelecom is relaunching its IPTV service with the addition of new channels and availability of services across multiple screens. The new service,… Read more

Growth for Canal Plus France

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Canal Plus France, with pay TV operations in mainland France, overseas territories and Africa, attracted 211,000 new subscribers during the first quarter, ending March with… Read more

Iliad Telecom passes five million broadband customer mark

French ISP Iliad Telecom had 5.04 million broadband subscribers at the end of March, up from 4.5 million a year earlier. The company’s Free subscriber… Read more

TTC launches cable TV in three new cities

Russian service provider TransTeleCom (TTC) has launched cable TV services in the cities of Barnaul in the Altai region in southern Siberia, Rybinsk in central… Read more

Com Hem names consumer sales chief

Swedish cable operator Com Hem has named Agnes Reuterskiöld as its new head of consumer sales, effective August 6. Reuterskiöld was previously sales manager for… Read more

VimpelCom posts fixed-line growth

Russian quad-play provider VimpelCom, which operates the Beeline brand of fixed and mobile broadband, TV and fixed and mobile telephony services, had 2.224 fixed-line broadband… Read more