Panama: Cable Onda expands TiVo offerings
TiVo has announced that Cable Onda, a television service provider in Panama and long-time TiVo partner, has agreed to expand its offerings and will soon offer its customers the latest TiVo Gateway DVR...
View ArticleEuskaltel acquires Telecable for €701m
Telecommunications, Media and Technology investor Zegona is selling its Spanish quad-play cable business Telecable to Euskaltel for a total value of up to €701 million, comprising an Enterprise Value...
View ArticleOvum: nbn leads regional broadband investment
nbn’s Fixed Wireless network has passed a key milestone with the service now available to 500,000 premises in regional and rural Australia. The milestone coincides with new research from UK analyst...
View ArticleOver 200m have Gigabit Internet availability
Viavi Solutions has released an updated version of Gigabit Monitor, the company’s visual database referencing current and planned gigabit deployments around the world. Analysis of deployments reveals...
View ArticleAirTies, Broadcom strategic alliance
At the 2017 Connected TV World Summit in London, AirTies, a provider of premium in-home wireless systems announced a strategic alliance with analogue and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions...
View ArticleIntelsat extends merger plan; SoftBank exasperated
Japanese media giant SoftBank has helped Intelsat sweeten its proposed debt-swap by a small amount in its drive to merge with Jersey-based OneWeb. SoftBank will put in a minuscule extra $61.6 million,...
View ArticleEC alleges Altice merger rules breach
The European Commission has sent a Statement of Objections alleging that multinational telecommunications company Altice breached the EU Merger Regulation by implementing its acquisition of...
View ArticleOver 75% of US broadband homes use Wi-Fi
Research from Parks Associates shows that more than 75 per cent of US broadband households use Wi-Fi for connectivity in the home and 50 per cent use 3G/4G services. “Wi-Fi is synonymous with Internet...
View ArticleAkamai: US the top country for web app attacks
Akamai Technologies, the cloud delivery platform, has released its First Quarter, 2017 State of the Internet / Security Report. The report, using data gathered from the Akamai Intelligent Platform,...
View ArticleUS Q1 pay-TV sheds 410,000 subs
Findings from broadband, media and entertainment industries research and analysis specialist Leichtman Research Group (LRG) indicate that the largest pay-TV providers in the US — representing about 95...
View ArticleFCC begins Title II roll back
As anticipated, the Federal Communications Commission has taken the first step toward restoring what it describes as Internet freedom and promoting infrastructure investment, innovation, and choice, by...
View ArticleAvanti, Q Sat dispute leaves 3,000 without service
Q-Sat, a rural satellite-delivered broadband supplier in Ireland, is in a “six-figure” dispute with London-based satellite operator Avanti Communications. The Financial Times is reporting that bills...
View ArticleTele Columbus “successful start” to 2017
Tele Columbus, the third largest German cable operator, published its financials for the first quarter of fiscal year 2017. The Group successfully continued on its growth path recording a 4.3 per cent...
View ArticleResearch: US broadband subs surpass pay-TV
According to the latest findings from specialist broadband, media and entertainment industries analyst firm Leichtman Research Group (LRG) the fourteen largest cable and telephone providers in the US –...
View ArticleHughes backs ‘Digital India’ initiative
Asia-Pacific telecoms company IPSTAR International, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Thaicom, has chosen the Hughes Network’s Jupiter broadband satellite to extend the reach of broadband throughout India....
View ArticleIn-flight connectivity revenue $32bn by 2026
Two-thirds of all commercial aircraft are expected to be fitted with in-flight connectivity (IFC) by 2026, and this represents a potential $32 billion in revenue over the next decade as air travel...
View ArticleBSG Report: Tackling barriers for UK telco infrastructure
The Broadband Stakeholder Group has launched a report, commissioned from Analysys Mason that looks at the practical steps the UK can take to lower barriers to telecoms infrastructure deployment. The...
View ArticleBT: “IPTV can lead to fully-connected population”
Helen Burrows, Head of Policy at BT, has called for the UK government to take policy decisions that she suggests would lead to a more connected society, building on the UK telco’s IPTV network....
View ArticleMost Americans endorse net neutrality protection
The Federal Communications Commission on May 19th took the first steps toward dismantling the regulatory framework created in 2015 to protect net neutrality. But a new Consumer Reports survey found...
View ArticleMalta: Melita, Vodafone quad-play merger
In a move that creates a new, fully-integrated communications provider in Malta, Apax Partners Midmarket, Fortino Capital and Vodafone Group are to combine cable, broadband and pay-TV provider Melita...
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