Five years ago this week… Technicolor filed a patent infringement case against CPE rival Samsung, citing ten patents across video coding, communications and associated technologies. Samsung had been borrowing ideas from the innovative set top community for years without paying its patent dues, only to be invited into the market by operators like Liberty Global and Comcast. Technicolor had acquired Cisco’s set top business to compete with the scale that made Samsung an attractive vendor and now it was coming for the latter’s lunch. Settlements were reached, but Technicolor decided to dispose of its patent licensing business at the end of 2017. — Orange’s Q4 2021 takeover of Telekom Romania Communications resulted in the European operator’s biggest video subscriber influx…