Time Warner Cable has expanded its TWC TV IP streaming of broadcast television to several different platforms since its launch two years ago, but so far it's been limited to use inside subscriber's homes.
The final few hundred metres to the house will be crossed with a wireless connection, using transmitters mounted on Tepco's electricity poles and tiny receivers plugged into a subscriber's personal computer.
Comcast brought video on-demand streaming to subscriber's mobile devices since early last year, but now an update has added the option to download (some) content for offline viewing.
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And, because each new issue would automatically be sent to a subscriber's iPad or other device, the publisher wouldn't have to rely so much on buyers making frequent visits to iTunes.
But mobile advertising through text messages is the most focused: if marketers use mobile firms' profiles of their customers cleverly enough, they can tailor their advertisements to match each subscriber's habits.
Shamus Khan, a sociologist at Columbia University, is analyzing the orchestra's subscriber lists to create a database mapping New York's elites in the seats of the concert hall.
Already 9 million accounts, over one-third of AOL's subscriber base, have been opened for free surfing.
Already 9 million accounts, more than a third of AOL's subscriber base, have been opened for free surfing.
For example, Wipro's revenue from its deal with Unitech Wireless, a mobile-phone company, depends on Unitech's subscriber growth.
Lastminute's subscriber base rose 20% to 4.21m in the quarter, viewed as the most important for the travel sector.
There are just 1 million Nextel customers left, raising the question of what Sprint's subscriber trends will look like when they're gone.
In the third quarter, the company's subscriber base in India grew 53% to 9.7 million, compared with the same quarter in 2004.
An anonymous pharmaceutical company on Celera's subscriber list is now working to see if the gene will produce an alpha interferon protein that might be used as a drug.
The company's subscriber base has ballooned from 5.8 million in 2002 to more than 15 million today, and it has positioned itself in emerging markets that have nothing but more upside in sight.
Netflix recently let it drop that its users clocked in more than one billion hours of content-viewing in the month of June alone, although the big question for CEO Reed Hastings is how that relates to the company's subscriber base.
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If we look at TNT, its U.S. subscriber base increased from 96.3 million in 2007 to 99.1 million in 2011.
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One angry subscriber of Murphy's Technology Investing, John Hanbury of Ashland, Ky.
Forbes' media reporter Lacey Rose, after talking to analysts at SNL Kagan, increased ESPN's projected subscriber-fee growth rate from Trefis' baseline 1.5% a year to 8% a year.
Interestingly, Telecom's ultimate plan is still to migrate to LTE -- but considering its rather massive footprint and subscriber count, there's method in the madness of supporting an interim ultra high-speed standard like Rev.
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Shares of Facebook surged on the heels of a better-than-expected third quarter and stronger mobile sales, while Netflix was flattened thanks to lower U.S. subscriber guidance and a negative turn for free cash flow.
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AOL's flair for understanding the needs of the mass market and the size of its subscriber base will combine with Netscape's Internet browser and electronic-commerce software.
In the 1990s Covad built the nation's largest digital subscriber line (DSL) network, offering rapid net access, but fell into Chapter 11 and got delisted from Nasdaq.
In a motion to dismiss the case, IMDb called Ms. Hoang's assertions "unsupported" and said that Ms. Hoang had voluntarily disclosed and permitted use of her subscriber information, per the site's terms.
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DirecTV will report its Q4 2012 and full year results on February 14 and besides solid subscriber additions in the U.S., Latin American growth will be in focus.
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Despite these concerns, DirecTV is riding strong subscriber growth in both the U.S. and Latin America.
The magazine industry's slim but growing digital subscriber base could help convince advertisers of the value of magazines.
The company's now boasts a total subscriber base of 19.9 million, up compared with 18.6 million a year ago.
"Despite China's large pay-TV subscriber base, its commercial relevance is limited at present, " said Media Partners Executive Director Vivek Couto.
He goes on further to explain that the cost of winning these contracts away are dependent on Netflix's ability to grow the subscriber base.
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