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Wireless

Verizon Revamps 5G Unlimited Plans to Boost Consumer Mobile

The new Verizon 5G unlimited mobile plan structure the company has dubbed myPlan aims to simplify the company’s mobile offerings and help engineer a turnaround …

Content

Navigating the Sports Multiverse

Whether it’s the implosion of the RSN ecosystem or the gradual migration of sports content to streaming platforms, the entire TV sports infrastructure is experiencing …

Streaming

Disney Q1 Earnings Highlights

It’s hard to know where to start when it comes to Disney’s fiscal Q2 earnings call, which revealed plans to combine Hulu and Disney+ into …

Fiber

AT&T Moves Fast on Gigapower Deployments to Bolster Fiber Growth

According to CEO John Stankey, AT&T had already signed up its first Gigapower customer ahead of the company’s April Q1 earnings call and before the …

Advertising

Promotional Pioneers

Unless you watched March Madness on a Vizio this year, you probably missed the television manufacturer’s first original program, “3 Pointers,” which the company described …

Fiber

Open Access Fiber Having a Moment

Even before AT&T’s December announcement that it had formed a joint venture with BlackRock Alternatives to develop an open access fiber network to extend its …

Streaming

Maximum Overdrive

Warner Bros. Discovery executives went biz-casual this week (sneakers and all) at a Los Angeles press event to unveil their new “Max” streaming service blending …

Fiber

Ziply Talks Edge-Out and FWA Plans

Ziply named Yakima, WA, as both its 100th fiber market and its first official edge-out market last month as CEO Harold Zeitz aims to move aggressively to deploy fiber in more edge-out locations.

Streaming

Roku-peration Pending

Roku’s latest round of layoffs this week reflects continuing pressure on the media landscape, especially when it comes to the advertising market. Roku, like many …

Streaming

Ad Ventures with Netflix

It has been roughly a year since Q1 2022 closed out, followed by Netflix’s disastrous earnings call in late April disclosing a 200,000 subscriber loss …

Wireless

Specter of Fixed Wireless Seemingly Lives in Wireline Executives’ Heads

For all the talk about how fixed wireless access service doesn’t represent a real threat to wireline broadband, wireline executives spend a lot of time …

Streaming

Bally Sports’ Outsized Impact

From Dish dropping nearly all RSNs to Comcast’s ongoing disputes with RSNs like Altitude Sports, RSNs have been on the defensive lately. But this is …

Fiber

Google Fiber Lights Up 5 Gbps Service in Four Markets

Google Fiber made good on one of its 2022 promises and launched a symmetrical 5 Gbps fiber Internet tier to four markets in mid-February. Impact: …

Fiber

Scrappy Fiber Overbuilders Pick It Up a Notch to Start 2023

If it feels like a number of smaller and regional fiber overbuilders have picked up their deployment pace in 2023, that’s because in many cases …

Fiber

AT&T Views Fiber Strategy As Key to Long-Term Success

AT&T added 280,000 new fiber subscribers in Q4, a 3.3% increase from a year ago and the company’s 12th consecutive quarter with more than 200,000 …

FAST

On the Way to Xumo Play

Per ADTRAKER’s findings in 2022, XUMO’s FAST service zig-zagged upwards on the scale that considers hourly average time allocated to advertising. The Comcast-owned service started …

Broadband

FCC Broadband Map Moves Into the Next Phase After Challenge Deadline

The FCC has yet to reveal how many broadband availability challenges to its new broadband map were received by the January 13 deadline but given …

Streaming

Roku Gets Smart

In the first unsurprising development of 2023, Roku is finally launching its own smart TV. The question now is whether the company – whose stock …

Fiber

Charter Unveils HFC Network Upgrade Strategy

At an investor day this month, Charter Communications revealed a number of updates about its overall operational strategy, including details on a $5.5-billion network upgrade …

Streaming

Peacock Pride

It’s been a good few months for Comcast NBCUniversal’s Peacock streaming service, which continues to post impressive growth even though its overall subscriber numbers pale …

Fiber

Fiber Deployments Slow with Supply Chain and Other Disruptions

A series of trade publication articles over the last few weeks warn of a looming slowdown in the current U.S. fiber craze, variously describing concerns …

Streaming

Bobbing for Apple?  

Cord cutting, the streaming wars, content cost inflation, and advertising pressure continue to swirl under the weight of Wall Street stock declines that have put …

5GFiber

T-Mobile Makes Waves with Supposed Fiber Interest  

T-Mobile dominated the news over the past week with its potential interest in getting into the wireline fiber business, another 5G Home Internet expansion, and …

News

Q3 Earnings Highlights: Disney and Scripps  

“I believe we are well positioned for future long-term growth, and I am confident in the path forward.”– Disney CEO Bob Chapek   Disney execs …

Broadband

New Study Reveals What Consumers Want in Broadband Labels  

The findings of a new study from the CyLab Security and Privacy Institute at Carnegie Mellon University on the topic of the coming FCC broadband …

5GWireless

Aviation Industry Pushes to Make C-Band Restrictions Permanent  

After the debacle surrounding the launch of C-band spectrum into the 5G networks of AT&T and Verizon earlier this year amid concerns about airplane interference, …

Streaming

The New (Fron)Tier  

Netflix this week finally pulled back the curtain on its previously announced plans to launch an ad-supported tier, and the details suggest that the streamer …

Cable

Cable Industry Hints at Competitive Strategy to Counter Fiber  

Cable executives at the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo provided a glimpse into how the industry plans to compete with multi-gigabit speeds even as it works to …

FAST

A UFC Knockout on Xumo  

The prevalence of unfilled ad time at FAST providers is remarkable. Those unfilled spans amount to dead airtime, with some spans going on so long …

Wireless

Verizon’s Mobile Business Not Likely to Turn Around in Q3  

Anyone expecting a third quarter turnaround in Verizon’s mobile fortunes likely wasn’t happy with CEO Hans Vestberg’s recent admission that the carrier expects to lose …

Streaming

Hulupalooza

Disney CEO Bob Chapek indicates he’d like to buy out Comcast’s Hulu stake sooner rather than later.

Fiber

New Funding Will Feed Ziply’s Expanded Fiber Goals 

With $450 million in new funding in hand, Ziply Fiber will look to edge-out and greenfield opportunities to expand its fiber network beyond the existing …

Streaming

Membership Has Its Privileges  

Those of a certain age will recall American Express’ famous advertising campaign that touted the value of “membership.” You’re not a customer. You’re a “member” …

Broadband

Smaller Providers Facing Problems Ahead of FCC Mapping Deadline  

Concerns are rising among smaller broadband providers that they won’t be able to meet the FCC’s September 1 deadline to submit their coverage data in …

Streaming

Shifting Sports  

It’s no secret that sports TV rights are slowly melting into the streaming universe as well-funded companies like Apple, Amazon, and Alphabet’s Google bid for …

BroadbandCable

Cable Broadband Feels the Heat in Q2  

Cable operators struggled through a tough quarter of broadband subscriber growth in Q2, with Comcast reporting flat growth (negative on the residential side), Charter sliding …

News

Comcast Q2 Earnings  

Comcast’s Q2 earnings report lays bare why well-diversified media companies tend to weather economic storms and business challenges better than others over the long term. …

Broadband

Microsoft Seeks to Fill in the Gaps with New Broadband Mapping Tool  

The FCC plans to unveil its long-awaited new and improved National Broadband Map sometime later this year, but in the meantime telecom providers and other …

Streaming

It’s Not TV, It’s…  

We’re probably only about two months (or less) away from Warner Bros. Discovery finally combining HBO Max and discovery+ into one hulking streaming service. WBD’s …

Broadband

Starlink Faces Headwinds — and Tailwinds, Depending on the Source  

It seems like every day there’s a new headline proclaiming good news or bad news for low earth orbit satellite Internet provider Starlink, part of …

Streaming

Can’t Get No Satisfaction?  

Sometimes it’s fun to mash together data from different sources just to see whether any correlations exist. And while we acknowledge the ancient wisdom that …

Streaming

Weighing the Sports Anchor  

This week, Sinclair launched its long-awaited regional sports streaming service Bally Sports Plus, adding it to a long list of direct-to-consumer services that RSNs, leagues, …

News

Ziply Fiber Acquisition Will Help Expansion Effort  

Ziply Fiber has been busily expanding its fiber infrastructure since it was formed out of WaveDivision Capital’s acquisition of its four-state Pacific Northwest footprint from …

FAST

OTT: Live vs VOD Ad Loads Resemble Traditional TV, For Now  

In the first five months of 2022, Peacock, The Roku Channel, and Tubi all served an average of over four pods each hour on FAST …

News

Federal Broadband Funding Train Starts Rolling Down the Track  

Although the bulk of the federal broadband funding provided for in last year’s infrastructure legislation won’t be available until the FCC completes its overhaul of …

Advertising

Programmatic Static  

As the industry takes a new look at ad-supported streaming amid slowing SVOD growth, we decided to check out AdExchanger’s Programmatic I/O conference in Las …

Streaming

DTCs and Legacies  

The recent streaming turmoil raises big questions about where the direct-to-consumer business sits relative to a legacy TV business that remains  a cashflow cow, despite …

NewsUncategorized

Comcast Details Edge-Out Strategy for Broadband Growth  

On Comcast’s Q1 earnings call, company executives revealed more detail about a plan to grow the cable provider’s footprint by at least 800K new broadband …

News

Altice Doubles Down on Fiber as Broadband Losses Mount  

Despite an accelerated buildout schedule and subscriber gains on the fiber side, Altice USA’s overall broadband subscriber numbers trended negative again in the first quarter.  …

Media

AT&T Fiber Additions Can’t Overcome Other Broadband Losses

Although CEO John Stankey reported during the Q1 earnings call that fiber makes up nearly half of AT&T’s consumer broadband revenue, gains in fiber were …

Streaming

Netflix’s Next Chapter  

“I know I’ve been here for more than 20 years and have been through a couple of these. And yes, they don’t feel great in …

Media

AT&T Still Faces Challenges After WarnerMedia Sale  

New analysis from Wall Street research group MoffettNathanson says AT&T still faces challenges now that the WarnerMedia spin-off to Discovery has finally closed. Impact: AT&T …

News

Suddenly Rebranded  

The full rebranding by year-end of Altice USA’s Suddenlink systems to the core Optimum brand it inherited from Cablevision in 2016 offers a window into …

5G

FCC Sets Date and Rules for Next Mid-band Spectrum Auction 

Wireless carriers pushing for more mid-band spectrum to use for 5G have gotten their wish, as the Federal Communications Commission has expedited its plans to …

FASTStreaming

The FAST and the Curious  

The explosion of free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST)-live channels has only accelerated in recent months as hundreds of new players enter this nascent and chaotic …

Cable

Big Cable Continues to Downplay Potential Threat from FWA

The CEOs from Charter and Comcast had similar responses when asked during recent investor conference appearances about the potential threat to cable broadband from the …

Wireless

Shentel Reveals Big Fiber Plans During Q4 Earnings

The fiber buildout craze sweeping the country also extends to smaller regional players like Virginia-based Shentel, which has been implementing its own fiber deployment strategy …

NewsWireless

Verizon’s Bold Play

Verizon’s announcement this week that it will launch a new video aggregation service called +play amounts to its current strategy on steroids. The carrier already …

Streaming

Riding the Wave

We often hear about big streamers dominating the market and crushing smaller players, but is it possible the majors actually help niche streaming services grow? …

News

Rip-and-Replace Requests Nearly Triple the Program’s Budget

When Congress mandated that telecommunications providers would need to remove equipment supplied by Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE from their networks over national security concerns, …

CableWireless

T-Mobile’s Coming for Cable Broadband

T-Mobile executives reveled in the success of their fixed wireless access product on the carrier’s Q4 2021 earnings call on Feb. 2, with CEO Mike …

Streaming

Recent entrants to the streaming video scene doubled down on movies in 2021

Near its launch in early in 2021, Paramount+ boasted over 30K titles. It truly was a “mountain of entertainment.” That is, unless you were looking …

Wireless

The fixed wireless invasion: analyzing carrier geographies

The latest STREAMTRAK report from One Touch Intelligence examines the fixed wireless invasion and analyzes how carriers are approaching the competitive marketplace, where systems overlap …

AdvertisingStreaming

IMDb TV: An invitation to join the Amazon bandwagon

An interactive Gold Peak Tea ad that popped up while auditing Amazon’s IMDb TV service in December piqued our interest. Questions surrounding IMDb’s identity have …

5GWireless

C-Band Deployment: Another Delay on the Road to Potential Resolution

After first rejecting a request from U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and Federal Aviation Administrator Steve Dickson to delay the C-band deployments scheduled to …

News

One Touch Intelligence Names Michael Grebb as VP, Lead Analyst

One Touch Intelligence6312 S Fiddlers Green CirGreenwood Village, CO 80111Contact: Noelle Botti – noelleb@onetouchintelligence.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Grebb to lead team covering media, communications, and entertainment/streaming …

ContentStreaming

AVOD’s ascent: In search of the perfect ad break

The future of the advertising-supported video on demand (AVOD) economy offers a glimpse into the future of TV itself. As more traditional TV subscribers choose …

EconomicsStreaming

What’s an SVOD service worth?

The question: What should a niche-targeted video streaming service cost?  The answer: $8.22 per month. That, at least, is the average for a collective of …

Streaming

Original SVOD content: back in business

Original content is again flooding SVOD screens, with the number of titles released by major providers swelling by 50% from the year-ago total. Our latest …

MediaStreaming

TV’s future: It’s right up front

The killer app for television? It might be an interface. As the ecosystem evolves, an area worth watching involves the way programs are surfaced and …

EconomicsStreaming

Apple TV+ keeps it free

Earlier this summer, as Apple reduced the duration of its Apple TV+ giveaway for eligible device buyers to three months from 12, it appeared the …

EconomicsWireless

DirecTV, meet Dish TV. Once again.

Because they basically do the same thing – deliver video over satellite communications platforms at scale – Dish Network and DirecTV’s parent AT&T have sparked …

Streaming

Houses don’t buy video. People do.

Tucked into Netflix’s second quarter earnings report was an interesting wrinkle about industry semantics. Co-CEO Reed Hastings made a point of diverting from the familiar …

EconomicsStreaming

Deal me in: Is an OTT price war ahead?

Just what the hotly competitive streaming video market needed: a price war. There’s no open declaration of hostilities just yet, but an offer spotted recently …

Streaming

Video’s new game plan

Forget touchdowns, walk-off homeruns, penalty kicks, and three-pointers at the buzzer. The new watchword for sports on the screen is “gamification.” The term is being …

ContentStreaming

Paramount+: CBS and then some

After examining the content libraries on ViacomCBS’s Paramount+, the newest entry in the SVOD streaming space, we can conclude the advertising claim “A Mountain of …

MediaStreaming

Sports bars, streaming, and Sundays

The most remarkable aspect of the NFL’s new, 10-year media rights arrangement is how unremarkable it turned out to be. True, some games will end …

Streaming

NHL skates toward a new video reality

The new National Hockey League TV rights reshuffle shines the spotlight on two influences that weren’t in play the last time the league negotiated its …

ContentEconomics

TVOD makes a Hollywood comeback

In a shifting screen-entertainment category, there’s a standout candidate for comeback player of the year: TVOD. Over recent years, the category of transactional video on …

Streaming

discovery+ makes a content-rich debut

The latest STREAMTRAKTM report from One Touch Intelligence reveals that Discovery Inc.’s new direct-to-consumer streaming service stacks up well against category leaders by virtue of …

EconomicsMedia

Rate versus ARPU: Who’s winning?

A subscription to Disney+ costs $6.99/mo., a new Hulu SVOD account costs $5.99, and ESPN+ clocks in at $5.99 . But according to new metrics …

EconomicsStreaming

Quibi, we hardly knew ye…

Quibi’s demise reflects the tenuousness  of a streaming video category that’s sometimes thought of as a can’t-miss hotbed for next-generation media industry growth. It’s a …

EconomicsMedia

DirecTV, AT&T and a changing world

The possibility that AT&T might sell the DirecTV satellite-TV service evokes questions not just about the identity of a buyer, but a deeper curiosity about …

MediaStreaming

The Tik-ing of Microsoft’s video clock

Among the five largest U.S. companies, only one lacks a direct-to-consumer video service. That could change, and soon. Press reports naming Microsoft as a lead …

ContentStreaming

Peacock premium and the 25% solution

The content differential between the free-to-view and premium tiers on NBCU’s new Peacock streaming service will play an important role in shaping the service’s success, …

CableStreaming

Gatekeepers 2.0: Meet the new MSO

A strong contender for the quote-of-the-month award goes to Andrew McCollum, the CEO of streaming video service Philo. McCollum recently talked to Variety about the …

MediaStreaming

For U.S. telecoms, OTT video beckons

Comcast’s recent arrangement to make Sling TV available over Comcast’s Flex platform dovetails with a widening embrace of over-the-top video among multiple U.S. telecommunications providers. …

ContentEconomics

Hybrid SVOD Models Gain Steam with HBO Max

The news that HBO Max will produce an advertising-supported offshoot next year represents the latest iteration of a movement toward hybridized streaming video economics.

ContentStreaming

Level Up: Subscription Game Services Rise on Video Charts

Research about a changing video marketplace tells us more than 30% of U.S. adults now maintain a subscription to a video streaming service.

ContentStreaming

Apple Looks for a Sporting Chance

For a barely born video service, sports could provide an avenue to diversification.

NewsWireless

Rated Z

How AT&T’s launch of HBO Max has reignited a contentious issue.

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