Posts Tagged ‘cable’
UPC rolling out broadband to midland towns »
Cable company UPC has announced the roll-out of upgraded services to towns in the midlands, which will bring the company's high-speed broadband to an extra 45,000 homes. The €15m upgrade will bring UPC's 30mb broadband, home phone and HD television to the towns and will be completed towards the end of June, though some upgrades are already ...Read On »
Chorus/NTL to launch VoD this year »
Cable company Chorus/NTL will launch a Video on Demand (VoD) service this year, according to its CEO. In a statement following the release of the company's financial results for 2009 Robert Dunn said the company would roll out the service to "further enhance our customer's experience." A VoD service would allow customers to watch certain ...Read On »
FX now available on Chorus/NTL »
Cable provider Chorus/NTL has made the FX channel available to its digital TV customers. FX, which is owned by Fox International, will be broadcast on channel 126 of the company's platform. The channel has been available to Sky Ireland customers for some time now and includes The Wire and True Blood in its roster of programming. The channel ...Read On »
Chorus/NTL plans to move into mobile »
Cable company Chorus/NTL is in the early stages of a planned entry into the mobile phone market in Ireland. The company’s chief executive Robert Dunn said they were still at an “explorative stage” but he saw it as an important market for the company to have a presence in. Mr Dunn also indicated that any launch would be as a mobile ...Read On »
Blurring the line between platforms »
Recent manoeuvres in the telecoms industry in Ireland has marked the expanding choice of so-called 'triple-play' services however with such stiff competition the race is on to push things to the next level into the arena of 'quad-play'. Triple-play services can technically mean any combination of three services and is generally used in the ...Read On »
