Virgin Media cable broadband posts 2 percent growth during first quarter
The cable broadband ISP, Virgin Media has released its Q1 results for the year 2008 that indicates more than 2% increase in its broadband customer base during the last quarter. Currently, there are 3,781,800 Virgin broadband customers as against 3,701,200 by the end of previous quarter. The report shows that it was its cable broadband [...]
Virgin Media Chief asks the IPTV services to share the cost
Neil Berkett, CEO of Virgin Media, in an interview for the magazine The Royal Television Society, stated that the ISP is in talks with content providers with regard to its plans to prioritize the traffic to such sites if the content providers agree to share the cost with the ISP. The idea of net neutrality [...]
BBC iPlayer to reach Wii game console users
The users of Nintendo Wii game consoles can now get the popular BBC iPlayer channels, according to a report. All you have to do is to install the Internet Channel on your game console and this would cost around £3.50. Once you have installed it, you can visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer and you can access the videos [...]
Ofcom on the new HDTV platform to be launched by the BBC
The Market Impact Assessment (MIA) released by Ofcom shows that the BBC’s proposed plans to launch its HDTV (High Definition Television) for free viewing would not produce expected adverse impacts in market. BBC is to make this HDTV available via various digital mediums like cable, terrestrial and via satellite to viewers across the UK. However, [...]
BBC’s is under pressure due to its iPlayer
More than sixteen thousand internet users in the UK sent petition to the office of Prime Minister asking the government to advise the Television giant BBC to make its iPlayer available for all internet users irrespective of operating systems they use. The iPlayer which was launched by BBC in the last week of July is [...]
