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News & Views Most Popular US Pay-TV Loses Another 1.2M Subs in Q3 By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/13/2019 Losses were even worse, at about 1.8 million, when OTT-TV service providers were removed from the subscriber equation. Post a Comment Cable Europe Charts Course to Become 'GIGAEurope' in 2020 By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/13/2019 Name and structure change coming to industry organization reflects the move to gigabit-class speeds over converged fixed mobile networks and the need to provide a unified voice to Europe's policymakers. Post a Comment Hollywood Studios Score $50M Judgement Against Omniverse By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/13/2019 In addition to financial damages, consent judgement also hits Omniverse with a permanent injunction. Post a Comment Advertisement DOCSIS 3.1 Takes Hold in Europe By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/13/2019 Cable's competitive and complementary relationship with 5G, the industry's progress with distributed access networks and its flirtation with a 10-Gig future will also be hot topics at this week's Cable Next-Gen Europe event in Berlin. Post a Comment Charter Syncs Up With Plume for Smart Home Management By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/12/2019 MSO is powering a new Advanced In-Home WiFi with OpenSync as it pushes ahead with a plan to develop a broader smart home product and ecosystem. Post a Comment Vodafone Registers Slight Sales Growth as Debts & Losses Pile Up By Iain Morris, International Editor, 11/12/2019 Takeover activity, 5G investments and unfriendly Indians are weighing heavily on the UK-based operator's financial performance, but at least revenues inched up. Post a Comment Ovum's Ed Barton on the Disney+ Launch By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 11/12/2019 Disney is going all out on its new direct-to-consumer streaming channel, which has just launched in the US. Will all the company's dreams come true? Post a Comment Advertisement Eurobites: Vodafone Strikes Deal With Openreach to Widen Fiber Offer in UK By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 11/11/2019 Also in today's EMEA roundup: Zain chooses Ericsson for 5G buildout in Bahrain; Sky and the BBC get cozy; Vodacom profits up; Africa's broadband future. Post a Comment Discovery Sizing Up Its Own OTT Play By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/11/2019 Programmer looking at direct-to-consumer streaming service that would aggregate Discovery's programming and target US consumers who don't subscribe to pay-TV. Post a Comment Cable One Racks Up Record Margins Again By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 11/8/2019 US cableco reports industry-best profit margins again after wrapping up its $526 million acquisition of Fidelity Communications last month. Post a Comment Disney+ Gets Ready for Its Close-Up By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/8/2019 The new OTT service, set to debut on November 12, represents a key piece of the puzzle as Disney plows ahead with a plan to transform itself into a direct-to-consumer streaming giant. Post a Comment WiCipedia: Tech Falls High in Happiness Index & the Blue Collar-AI Struggle By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 11/8/2019 This week in our WiC roundup: Techies are pretty dang happy at work; AI's effect on female blue-collar workers; college students are majority female though tech workforce lags; and more. Post a Comment Eurobites: United Group Agrees to Buy Bulgaria's Vivacom for €1.2B By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 11/8/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Netnod pushes 400GE ports; EU Google-taming isn't working; C-V2X Plugtest revs up in Malaga. Post a Comment Edge Computing Mini Data Centers Are Rolling Out for Real. What's Next? By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 11/8/2019 Companies including EdgeMicro and Vapor IO have are building real, live, commercial mini data centers for edge computing. But what happens next is anyone's guess. Post a Comment TiVo Predicts Spring 2020 Split By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/7/2019 Ahead of plan to separate its products and intellectual property/licensing business by April 2020, TiVo expects to announce some leadership slots post-split in the coming weeks. Post a Comment Dish's Pay-TV Biz Returns From the Dead By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/7/2019 Led by gains at Sling TV, Dish added 148,000 net video subs in Q3, the first time the company has posted a positive pay-TV number in almost two years. Post a Comment Liberty Global Revenue Slump Deepens By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 11/7/2019 Europe's largest cable operator suffers continued revenue declines, largely due to steep video subscriber losses in its UK home market and Belgium. Post a Comment CommScope's Virtual CCAP Creeps Toward Reality By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/7/2019 As it continues to play catch-up with Harmonic, CommScope says its virtual CCAP is in trials with cable ops and is slated for a commercial launch by the end of the year. Post a Comment Eurobites: Virgin Media Gets Picky, Loses 53,000 RGUs in Q3 By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 11/7/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: BritBox launches in the UK; Intracom lands last-mile connectivity deal in South Africa; ARM still plans growth, despite quarterly loss. Post a Comment Roku Q3 Revenues Top Expectations but Losses Widen By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/6/2019 Stock drops as losses accelerate, streaming player revenues dip versus Q2 and Roku sees a $5 million 'headwind' coming from expenses linked to its acquisition of ad-tech company dataxu. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive US Pay-TV Loses Another 1.2M Subs in Q3 By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/13/2019 Losses were even worse, at about 1.8 million, when OTT-TV service providers were removed from the subscriber equation. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors Atlantic Broadband Expands Services in VA & Opens New Office Wednesday, November 13, 2019 Cable Europe Rebranding as 'GIGAEurope' Wednesday, November 13, 2019 Czech Television Tunes in Synamedia Tuesday, November 12, 2019 Charter Connects With Plume's OpenSync Tuesday, November 12, 2019 TiVo Plans to Complete Split by April 2020 Thursday, November 7, 2019 Dish Raises $1B Rights Offering to Help Fuel Wireless Investment Thursday, November 7, 2019 Dish Adds 148K Net Pay-TV Subs in Q3 Thursday, November 7, 2019 CommScope Posts Q3 Revenues of $2.38B, Net Loss of $156M Thursday, November 7, 2019 CommScope Shows CBRS-Based Private LTE on Microsoft Azure Wednesday, November 6, 2019 WOW Hires SVP of IT Ops Wednesday, November 6, 2019 Liberty Latin America Sells Cable & Wireless Seychelles for $104M Wednesday, November 6, 2019 Wurl Expands to Europe Wednesday, November 6, 2019 Altice USA Revenues Inch Up to $2.44B in Q3 Tuesday, November 5, 2019 More Newsfeeds		Security Now How PureLocker Ransomware Bypasses AV Checks Larry Loeb, Author, 11/13/2019 Intezer and IBM X-Force have found a new ransomware targeted at production ... 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Meet the Execs Tapped to Build & Sell Dish's 5G Network

Dish Network last week announced it hired Marc Rouanne (of Nokia) and Stephen Bye (of Sprint) to build and sell its planned 5G network. Both executives spoke with ...