Huawei GigaHome solution for home networks
At the FTTH Conference 2017, Huawei officially released its GigaHome solution designed to help operators build smart and easy-to-use home networks offering a premium service experience for users. At...
View ArticleUPC adds 7000 TV subs in Q4
Swiss cable operator UPC finished 2016 with a strong fourth quarter. During the last three months of the year, the subscriber base increased by just under 30,000 in fixed and 10,000 in mobile. In...
View ArticleEricsson 5G platform
Ericsson has introduced a 5G platform for the needs of the first movers in 5G. Communications are moving toward data-heavy applications like Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality everywhere. In light...
View ArticleGlobal fixed wireless homes to surpass 150m
Exponential growth of 4G LTE coverage and capacity is driving wireless service growth for fixed broadband access, while FTTH, xDSL, and cable technologies reach nearly 50 per cent of global households...
View ArticleLiberty Global FY: Solid European results
International TV and broadband company Liberty Global has reported Q4 and Full Year results which reveal a European operating income of $683 million (€643m) and $558 million in Q4 2016 and Q4 2015,...
View ArticleTime Warner shareholders approve AT&T merger
Time Warner shareholders have voted to adopt the merger agreement between AT&T and Time Warner, with 78 per cent of the outstanding shares of common stock voting in favour; and of the shares voted,...
View ArticleMariner xVu monitors over 3bn events per week
Mariner xVu has announced significant growth in tier-1 operators who are looking for economies when managing new, interrelated services like TV entertainment, OTT streaming, broadband, and Wi-Fi. The...
View ArticleFTTH: Costs of Gb society “significant but achievable”
The FTTH Council Europe made public the first results of its updated study on the cost of deploying FTTH throughout the EU showing that the outstanding costs of full fibre coverage in the EU are €156...
View ArticleEurofins, Samsung develop HbbTV app test centre
Eurofins Digital Testing has announced it will develop an HbbTV Application Test Centre in co-operation with Samsung Electronics for testing HbbTV Applications on HbbTV enabled TVs. ‘HbbTV...
View ArticleTelefónica selling 40% of Telxius to KKR
Telefónica has reached agreement with global investment firm KKR Group for the sale of up to 40 per cent of Telxius Telecom, its global telecommunications infrastructure company, for a total amount of...
View ArticleOneWeb will be “almost same as optical fibre”
Jersey, Channel Islands-based OneWeb is building a new satellite constellation of 720 spacecraft to orbit at 1200 kms, and girdle the Earth supplying high-capacity broadband around the planet. Japan’s...
View ArticleSurvey: Majority prefer ISP-provided Wi-Fi gear
Seventy-eight per cent of consumers across the US and UK would prefer if their Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provided them with their in-home Wi-Fi networking gear, versus purchasing it themselves,...
View ArticleSlow broadband top new home annoyance
Slow broadband speed at peak-times has been cited as the number one unexpected home-mover bugbear, according to a survey of 3,000 Brits. Indeed, many wouldn’t have moved at all had they known the...
View ArticleReport: Pace of 5G development beyond expectations
Viavi Solutions has released industry data on the state of 5G trials globally. Despite 5G standards not being expected until 2020, 25 mobile operators have already announced that they are lab testing...
View ArticleARRIS wireless boost with Ruckus deal
In a deal that adds a strong portfolio of wireless and wired networking products and key technologies to address rapidly growing wireless broadband markets for enterprise and service providers,...
View ArticleEurofins, Nokia strategic agreement
Eurofins Digital Testing, a global player in end-to-end quality assurance (QA) and testing services has signed a strategic relationship agreement with Nokia. Under the agreement, Nokia will resell...
View ArticleBT, Huawei study 5G network slicing
BT and global information and communications technology solutions provider Huawei are to undertake research into how ‘network slicing’ – a method of carving out specific ‘slices’ of an IP-based network...
View Article10% US homes likely to cancel fixed broadband
Consumer research from Parks Associates reveals that 10 per cent of US broadband households are likely to cancel their fixed broadband service over the next 12 months. According to 360 View: Mobility...
View ArticleSamsung, Arqiva plan UK 5G trials
Samsung Electronics and UK communications infrastructure and media services provider Arqiva are to conduct the UK’s first 5G trials with a focus on Fixed Wireless Access. The trial deployment will...
View ArticleNZ: Spark partners with Netflix
New Zealand multi-play operator Spark has agreed an exclusive partnership with Netflix that gives Spark broadband customers a subscription to Netflix’s Standard plan for one year when they sign up to a...
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