SES thinking about LEO
SES’s CEO Karim Michel Sabbagh says that despite its ownership of Mid-Earth Orbiting (MEO) satellite with the O3b brand, it is also actively looking at lower orbiting satellites. He said that SES no...
View ArticleEutelsat CEO: “No plans” for MEO/LEO
Eutelsat’s CEO, Rodolphe Belmer, speaking at the Washington Satellite 2017 show, said he had no plans at the moment to seek a MEO/LEO fleet of satellites, although also added “at this time”. Belmer...
View ArticleAdvocacy groups urge net neutrality continuation
In the wake of new FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s confirmation of his opposition to net neutrality and overturn ‘Open Internet’ proposals, a grouping of 171 public policy and advocacy bodies has written an...
View ArticleIliad plans 20m FTTH connections by 2022
Free, a subsidiary of French telco Iliad, has claimed record ultra-fast network rollouts in 2016, with 4.4 million FTTH connections and 310,000 subscribers at the end of 2016. Free aims to achieve a 25...
View ArticleDigital transition drives Euro cable growth
The cable industry is growing, with total revenues up 4.6 per cent year on year based on IHS statistics released by the industry’s trade association, Cable Europe, at Cable Congress in Brussels....
View ArticleBT defends Euro football exclusivity
John Petter, CEO of BT’s Consumer division, has defended the telco’s securing of exclusive UK rights to Europe’s top club football competitions, the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League....
View ArticleAltice: “2016 a pivotal year”
Multinational telco and media company Altice has reported a successful year of execution for 2016 including the rapid integration of US businesses and transformation into leading transatlantic,...
View ArticlecomScore connected home service
comScore has announced comScore Connected Home, a syndicated service to be based on the company’s proprietary Total Home Panel – a research platform that measures consumer behaviour across home...
View ArticleAkamai: Global connection speed up 26% YoY
Akamai Technologies, a global player in content delivery network (CDN) services, has released its Fourth Quarter, 2016 State of the Internet Report. Based on data gathered from the Akamai Intelligent...
View ArticleJan du Plessis new BT Chairman
BT Group has confirmed that Jan du Plessis will succeed Sir Mike Rake as Chairman. du Plessis will join the Board as a non-executive director from 1 June 2017 and become Chairman with effect from 1...
View ArticleOTT not enemy says cable
OTT is not the enemy and we can work together was the message in Brussels. Liberty Global, through Eric Tveter, CEO Central and Eastern Europe, said the relationship with Netflix was good for both...
View ArticleUS pay-TV providers shed 1m subs in 2016
The top 10 television service providers in the United States lost 937,000 television customers between them in 2016, according to the informitv Multiscreen Index. They collectively account for 88.69...
View ArticleBT, Ofcom agree Openreach ‘split’
BT and Ofcom have reached agreement on a long-term regulatory settlement that will see the telco’s infrastructure unit Openreach become a distinct, legally separate company with its own Board, within...
View ArticleSpain climbs Netflix ISP Speed Index
Netflix has released February data from its ISP Speed Index – a monthly update on which Internet Service Providers (provide the best prime-time Netflix streaming experience. Bolstered by speed gains,...
View ArticleGlobal Eagle expands on water
In-Flight entertainment specialists Global Eagle Entertainment (GEE) has used this week’s Seatrade Cruise Global event to launch its Airtime Portal for cruise passengers and crew. The Airtime Portal...
View ArticleMoCA, SCTE team for MoCA/DOCSIS interoperability
The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE), its global arm, the International Society of Broadband Experts (ISBE), and the Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) have announced a new...
View ArticleEC clears AT&T Time Warner acquisition
The European Commission has approved under the EU Merger Regulation the $85.4 billion (€78.5bn) acquisition of Time Warner by AT&T. Time Warner provides global media entertainment services,...
View ArticleSpain: Euskaltel to buy Telecable
More consolidation is taking place in the Spanish cable market. The Basque Country-based Euskaltel is reportedly close to acquiring the regional cable network Telecable, based in Asturias, north of...
View ArticleSpeedcast sees connectivity to cruise ships surge
Fast-expanding video and broadband connectivity and facilities company Speedcast says the amount of bandwidth it provided an “unprecedented” amount of capacity to its cruise fleet customers (and crew)...
View ArticleCanada: Cord-cutting at record levels
Canada’s publicly traded television service providers as a whole continued to lose a record number of TV subscribers in 2016 but the trends shifted as the cable companies lost considerably fewer...
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