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eight-year, $7 billion deal

uild and operate a satellite and mobile broadband networ

SN, which is jointly owned by Finland’s Nokia and Germany’s Siemens, announced that it would strengthen its position in the US by buying most of Motorola’s network infrastructure unit for $1.2bn.Harbinger’s $7bn contract award to NSN underlines the h

$7bn contrac

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ambitious plan by Harbinger Capital Partners relies on deploying a Long Term Evolution network over spectrum owned by a few satellite companies

eate an open wholesale wireless network available to retail companies,

AT&T and Verizon could not buy up huge chunks of the network or spectrum to keep others off of it.

satellite and telecom companies’ combined video subscriber numbers fel

living without the set top box is clearly becoming more than a theory

rise of the digital video recorder, used in 1 per cent of US homes in 2006 and 37 per cent now

atellite, DTT in mini-pack and ADSL via all telc

more than 5 million subscribers,

CANAL + launched in 2007 TNTSAT, free

DTT platform has been operated by the company Boxer

cable television market is highly concentrated and dominated by the operator Com Hem

1.76 million subscribers

TÉ1 and RTÉ2, had a combined market share of 36.5% in 2008

TV3 (launched in 1998) had an 11.4% market share, close to that of RTÉ2,

61% of Irish households receive digital televisio

37 percent of Netflix subscribers aged 25 to 34 substitute Netflix for pay television

30 percent of users between 18 and 24 are using Netflix’s streaming service instead of cable or satellite

Netflix story just works,” s

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able operators in contrast have continued to churn record numbers of basic subs having lost 700,000 subscribers in Q3 and 760,780 in Q

e companies have been losing half a million subscriber

During the same period, cable operators kept moving their existing analog customers to high-ARPU digital packages at healthy rate

at cord cutting is really just cord swapping: cable subscribers switching to IPTV or satellite offerings.

nly one-tenth of 1 percent of viewers were actually cutting the cord.

premier Ka-band satellite broadband service provider

d at $568 million

ISPs with over 400,000 customers

"Germany has a long tradition of having a very broad spectrum of free television

90 percent of German households have cable or satellite TV

37 million households

50.1% received television by cable and 43.7% by satellite.

digital television had reached almost 62% by June

150 000 on the DTT network alone

market is dominated by the satellite package Digital+, which is owned by Sogecable (Prisa, Mediaset and Telefonica)

12% of homes

23.1 million (62%) of TV households

digital infrastructure with a current share of 79.1

DTH satellite reception is on its way to be the next popular