BROWSING: Cable

TeleGeography | April 4, 2011 Mexican media giant Grupo Televisa has revealed that it will buy the remaining shares it does not hold in local triple-play provider Cablemas for approximately MXN4.7 billion (USD397 million), according to the Wall Street Journal. Televisa has said that it...

Living in Peru | March 28, 2011 According to a new technical study done by Peru’s nacional statistics agency, “Information and Communication Technology in Homes, October-December 2010,” 27.1 percent of the country’s homes have cable television service, representing a 2.3 percentage point increase since 2009. By...

GlobeNet | March 24, 2011 | Press Release Delivering the Lowest Latency International Capacity Between the Americas BOCA RATON, FL--(Marketwire - March 24, 2011) -  GlobeNet, an international wholesale provider of submarine capacity, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Oi (BOVESPA: TNLP3) (BOVESPA: TNLP4) (BOVESPA: TMAR3)...

GlobeNet | March 24, 2011 | Press Release Delivering the Lowest Latency International Capacity Between the Americas BOCA RATON, FL--(Marketwire - March 24, 2011) -  GlobeNet, an international wholesale provider of submarine capacity, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Oi (BOVESPA: TNLP3) (BOVESPA: TNLP4) (BOVESPA: TMAR3)...

BNAmericas | March 23, 2011 | Patrick Nixon Latin American telcos will help ensure that satellite surpasses cable by 2015 in terms of high definition pay TV subscribers, but the long-term migration path for telcos is still IPTV, Carlos Blanco, analyst with Argentine telecoms consultancy...

Vietnam Net Bridge | March 10, 2011 Vietnamese users were disconnected from international Internet Tuesday when Asia-America Gateway, an international undersea cable system that links to the southern coastal Vung Tau province somehow was cut off. FPT Telecom, Viettel Telecom and VDC, Vietnam’s service providers which...

Huawei | March 4, 2011 | Press Release Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 4 March, 2011: Huawei Marine Networks Co. Ltd. ("Huawei Marine") announced today that it has won the bidding for the BDM (Batam-Dumai-Melaka) submarine cable project and will provide the end-to-end turnkey submarine system solution. The...

TeleGeography | February 28, 2011 Pacnet, which was formed from the operational merger of Asia Netcom and Pacific Internet and which describes itself as Asia’s leading independent telecommunications service provider, has selected NEC Corporation to carry out a multi-million upgrade to its 9,620km EAC Pacific...

Jamaica Observer | February 16, 2011 | Alesia Edwards? OCHO RIOS, St Ann — Telecommunication between Jamaica, Venezuela and Cuba is soon to be strengthened due to the arrival of a new undersea fibre optic cable as part of an agreement between LIME's parent company...

Wall Street Journal | February 11, 2011 | Kejal Vyas CARACAS (Dow Jones)--Venezuela's state-run telecommunications operator, Compania Anonima Nacional Telefonos de Venezuela, or Cantv, said Friday it has finished connecting a fiber-optic cable that links the southern part of the country to northern Brazil. Venezuelan officials,...

Business News Americas | February 10, 2011 | Patrick Nixon Luxembourg-based mobile operator Millicom International Cellular (Nasdaq: MICC) has forecast capex of US$800mn for 2011, which does not include potential investments in spectrum or potential expenditure in Greenfield assets in Latin America, company CFO Francois-Xavier Roger...

BBC | February 9, 2011 Cuba has welcomed the arrival of an undersea fibre-optic cable linking it to Venezuela as a blow to the US economic embargo. The cable will transform communications in Cuba, which has among the slowest internet speeds in the world. The new connection...

The Gleaner Jamaica | February 6, 2011 Cable and Wireless (C&W), the telecoms company that trades in the Caribbean as LIME, says it has completed the buildout of the US$35 million undersea cable connecting Jamaica, the British Virgin Islands, and the Dominican Republic....

AUSTIN-Cypress Industries, an Austin-based electronics manufacturing company, recently doubled its square-footage by moving to a new 30,000 square foot facility at 8027 Exchange Drive. The move was largely due to rapid growth in its U.S. manufacturing business. "In 2010, we saw tremendous migration back to...

Wall Street Journal | February 2, 2011 | Taos Turner BUENOS AIRES (Dow Jones)--Argentina's government plans to force multimedia company Grupo Clarin SA (GCLA.BA) to roll back a recent price hike on more than 3 million of its cable television customers. The move comes just hours...

Alcatel- Lucent | February 1, 2011 | Press Release Alcatel-Lucent and Ciena selected as the contractors for the network upgrade Paris and Linthicum, Md., USA – February 1, 2011 – The South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) co-owners have selected Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris...

Teleste | January 25, 2011 | Press Release The agreement focuses on business solutions for cable and telecom operators Teleste is an international technology group specialising in broadband video and data communication systems and services. Teleste and the Spanish company Ikusi have reached a collaboration agreement for the Spanish and...

AOL News | January 24, 2011 | Lauren Frayer One of the world's most unplugged countries is about to get high-speed Internet, courtesy of an old friend. A specialized ship began laying fiber-optic cable under the Caribbean Sea from Venezuela toward Cuba this past weekend, launching...

The China Post | January 6, 2011 TAIPEI, Taiwan — The topic of Taiwan and China jointly building an undersea communication cable was the center of a heated debate during a briefing session before the Communications Committee of the Legislative Yuan yesterday, according to local...

Divitel | January 1, 2011 | Press Release January 1th 2011, Following on from the foreign branches launched earlier in Portugal and Germany, Divitel has now opened a branch in Curacao. As part of our ‘Think Global, Act Local’ strategy, Divitel opened the new office...

NexTVLatam | Monday, December 20 2010 The Colombian National Television Commission decided to reduce from 10% to 7% the percentage on gross income tax paid by Pay-TV operators. Such measure will become effective as from January 2011. According to the aforementioned agency such decision is...