Dutch MSO Ziggo B.V. filed for an initial public offering Wednesday, looking to list shares on the Amsterdam exchange and raise more than $1.3 billion, according to Bloomberg. Ziggo's going public amid rumors that Liberty Global Inc.'s has shown interest in the cable operator, which ended 2011 with about 3 million video subscribers.
Comcast Corp. CFO and Vice Chairman Michael Angelakis reaffirmed at a Morgan Stanley investor conference Tuesday that the MSO has no plans to deploy a usage-based broadband policy such as the optional one TW Cable has put in place in southern Texas. "We have a very high customer satisfaction rating and we don't really want to rock the boat on that product," he said. Comcast does have an "excessive use" policy for residential broadband that caps monthly consumption at 250GB. (See Usage-Based Broadband Returns to TW Cable and Comcast Draws the Line at 250GB.)
Fewer than 1 million Google TV devices are in use, says NewTeeVee, basing that estimate on the current active install base for the TV and Movies app, which comes pre-installed and serves as the Android-based device's core programming guide.
thePlatform Inc., the Comcast-owned media publishing firm, has notched a deal to handle the TV Everywhere management needs of A&E Networks, which runs A&E, The History Channel, Lifetime Networks and The Biography Channel.
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