Blog articles from 10/2013

Stuart Sikes, President, Parks Associates moderated the session, "TV Everywhere Update: What's Trending in Europe" on Friday, September 20 in Barcelona. Panelists included: Cornel Ciocirlan - CTO EMEA, Arris; Jon Sichel - MD UK & EMEA, Scripps Networks; Kiaran Saunders - VP Commercial Director, Nickelodeon UK Ltd.; Nick Thexton - VP and CTO, Service Provider Video Technology Group, Cisco; and Simon McGrath - General Manager, Europe, thePlatform. The panel discussed...

New market focus research from Parks Associates, The Market for Connected Appliances , identifies the key connected appliance features desired by consumers and gauges their willingness to pay for such features, with particular attention to the demand for energy-saving features that would allow utilities to shift energy consumption to off-peak hours. It also assesses the potential to use connectivity to generate revenues through the sale of supplies (e.g., detergents) and the role of...

AT&T announced it has begun deployment of a 100 percent fiber Internet broadband network in Austin that will deliver speeds up to 1 Gigabit per second.  AT&T plans to begin delivering AT&T U-verse® with GigaPowerSM , the city’s fastest Internet available to consumers, along with more advanced TV services and features, in December. In addition to extremely fast Internet connections, GigaPower will enable advanced U-verse TV services and features such as...