Western Europe tops 100m pay-TV subs
Western Europe will avoid the curse of cord-cutting – at least for the next five years, according to the Western Europe Pay TV Forecasts report from Digital TV Research. The Western European pay TV...
View ArticleFTTH lobby seeks 5G role
The FTTH Council Europe – whose mission is to accelerate ubiquitous, fibre-based connectivity for a competitive Gigabit Society – has organised a cross-industry debate in the European Parliament that...
View ArticleARRIS Q1 revenues dip
US telco equipment company ARRIS International has announced preliminary and unaudited financial results for the first quarter 2017. Revenues in the first quarter 2017 of $1.483 billion (€1.36bn) were...
View ArticleFastweb adds 45,000 subs in Q1 2017
Italian broadband operator Fastweb added 45,000 new customers during the first quarter of 2017, taking the total to 2.4 million. Compared to Q1 2016, the number of total customers increased by 159,000...
View ArticleBSG analyses potential broadband USO in UK
The Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG) has launched Impact of a Broadband USO in the UK, a report commissioned from Plum Consulting to analyse the impact of the design considerations of a potential...
View ArticleSpaceX racing to space for broadband domination
Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket company has told a powerful Senate hearing in Washington DC on May 3rd that it intends having its super-constellation of orbiting satellites operating and supplying initial...
View ArticleComcast, Charter WiFi pact
Comcast and Charter Communications have formed a wireless partnership to speed up their entry into the highly competitive market for mobile service in the US. Charter and Comcast have agreed not to...
View ArticleLiberty: Income dips on mobile, V6 box rolls out
According to Mike Fries, CEO of International TV and broadband company Liberty Global, the improvement in subscriber additions, led by its operations in the UK and Germany, contributed to its best...
View ArticleGlobal pay-TV revenues to peak in 2017
Global pay-TV revenues will peak in 2017 at $202 billion (€184bn), according to analysis firm Digital TV Research. However, no rapid decline will take place after 2017 as revenues will still be as high...
View ArticleOpera invests $100m in Africa digital
Opera, the developer of the most popular mobile browser in Africa, announced its plan to invest $100 million over the next two years to facilitate the growth of African digital economy. The company...
View ArticleNew India lead on Netflix ISP Speed Index
Netflix has released April data from its ISP Speed Index, a monthly update on which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide the best prime-time Netflix streaming experience. Highlights include:...
View ArticleFirst TV White Space deployment in Oman
Adaptrum, a specialist in TV White Space (TVWS) technologies, has announced the completion of a successful pilot deployment with Oman Broadband Company in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. Marking the first...
View ArticleViaSat joins Dynamic Spectrum Alliance
The Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA) has announced that ViaSat, a global broadband services and technology company, has become its newest member and the first broadband satellite service provider to...
View ArticleEurofins Digital Testing selected by Conax
Eurofins Digital Testing, a global player in end-to-end quality assurance (QA) and testing services, has been selected by Conax, part of the Kudelski Group, to provide testing and service validation...
View ArticleIntelsat + SoftBank plan at risk
Satellite operator Intelsat is looking to merge with Jersey-based OneWeb with help from Japanese media giant SoftBank. The deal needs Intelsat’s debt-holders to agree to new financial terms, and that...
View ArticleBT to cut 4,000 jobs and CEO bonus
UK’s BT is set to cut 4,000 jobs following a “challenging” year that has seen its chief executive stripped of his annual bonus amid a 19 per cent fall in profits to £2.4 billion (€2.8bn). The group’s...
View ArticleNCTA: Americans favour ‘light touch’ Internet regulation
A majority of Americans says that the government should employ a ‘light touch’ when regulating the Internet and that reliance on a ‘public utility’ model of regulation is not appropriate for the growth...
View ArticleEutelsat Q3 results down 4.2%
Eutelsat’s Q3 overall revenues were €364.3 million, down 4.2 per cent (at constant currency) and 4.9 per cent as reported. Eutelsat said that its channel count was up 3.2 per cent (same period last...
View ArticleUS pay-TV sheds over half a million subs
The top 10 television service providers in the US lost 559,000 television customers between them in the first quarter of 2017, as reported by the informitv Multiscreen Index. That represents a...
View ArticleGlobal pay-TV subs to reach 1.09bn
Forecasts from the Global Pay-TV Subscriber Forecasts report from Digital TV Research suggest a total of 134 million additional pay-TV subscribers between 2016 and 2022 to take the total 1.09 billion....
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