Ofcom sets out Openreach delivery measures
UK comms regulator Ofcom has announced how infrastructure unit Openreach will be held to account, as it becomes legally separate from BT, to ensure it delivers for phone and broadband users. Ofcom...
View ArticleAltice-SFR to fibre France without public money
French telco Altice-SFR has revealed plans to fibre the entire French territory with no public money, which it says will make it possible to achieve the French President and Government’s goal of giving...
View ArticleAT&T to separate DirecTV from Time Warner
US telco giant AT&T will run its DirecTV pay-TV arm as a separate division following on from its $85 billion (€74bn) acquisition of Time Warner’s media assets. According to reports. The Time Warner...
View ArticleGermany: ADTRAN, DT trials G.fast over copper
ADTRAN, a provider of next-generation open networking solutions, has announced the start of lab testing of the latest innovations in the G.fast standard, 212MHz and coordinated dynamic time allocation...
View ArticleSandvine, Procera to merge in C$562m deal
Network policy control solutions provider Sandvine has entered into an arrangement agreement with PNI Canada Acquireco Corp, an affiliate of Francisco Partners and subscriber and network intelligence...
View ArticleBT Openreach turns to fibre?
Clive Selley, Openreach CEO, has said 10 million UK premises could access fibre by the mid-2020s. Selley has shifted the company towards FTTP since taking over last year, made the comments as he...
View ArticleCanada: TELUS selects Mediamorph
Mediamorph has been selected to automate contract management and programmer fee calculations while delivering enhanced flexibility and control of packaging models by Canadian telco TELUS – which has...
View ArticleStrong opposition for SpaceX ‘super-constellation’
Rocket company SpaceX wants to build a super-constellation of 4425 mini-satellites to girdle the planet and provide extra broadband bandwidth for billions of new, or under-served, consumers. But the...
View ArticleResearch: Pay-TV piracy in 11.8m LatAm homes
According to research from consultancy firm Dataxis, pay-TV piracy reached 7 per cent of TV households in Latin America, with 11.8 million consumers. Dataxis suggests total illegal access to pay-TV...
View ArticleIndia’s GTPL deploys Harmonic’s Electra X2
Harmonic, a specialist in video delivery infrastructure, has announced that GTPL, India’s leading digital cable TV distribution company, which reaches an estimate of more than 8 million households in...
View ArticleASA bans Sky broadband ad as Virgin complain
Sky has had a broadband TV commercial banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) following a complaint from Virgin Media. The commercial featured the cast from animated movie The Secret Life...
View ArticleOrange hits TF1 with legal action
French telco Orange has started legal action against broadcaster TF1 alleging an abuse of dominant power. The dispute is believed to focus on a long-running carriage fee dispute between the two....
View ArticleItaly ends Q1 with 16m fixed broadband lines
The number of fixed broadband lines in Italy with speeds higher than 10 Mbps has surpassed 16 million units (+770,000 year-on-year) in the first quarter of 2017. Data from the Communications...
View ArticleVodafone consumer IoT this year
Vodafone has committed to launching consumer IoT this autumn, with the solution being trialled by the Group’s CEO Vittorio Colao as its Q1 results were revealed. The operator first promised a consumer...
View Article30 US pay-TV providers testing 4K delivery with SES
With an additional nine TV operators joining SES’s Ultra HD trials, a total of 30 US pay-TV providers, with a combined audience of more than 10 million subscribers, are now testing SES’s 4K content...
View ArticleIntelsat joins anti-SpaceX satellite move
Intelsat wants US the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to block – at least for the time being – SpaceX’s plan to girdle the Earth with more than 4400 mini-satellites. Intelsat has said to the...
View ArticleDegenhardt to succeed Verhelst as Tele Columbus CEO
Tele Columbus, the third largest German cable MSO, has confirmed that Ronny Verhelst, who has led the company as CEO for nearly seven years since 2011, will leave for personal reasons as of February...
View ArticleUK new home buyers: Ultrafast broadband a ‘must have’
The Berkeley Group – one of the UK’s best-known developers of new homes – says access to ultrafast broadband is now almost as important to new home buyers as running water and electricity. According to...
View ArticleResearch: Pay-TV/broadband firms alienating customers
Firms providing TV and broadband packages did more than nearly any other sector to damage their reputations over the last year through poor customer service and increasing complaint levels....
View ArticleMassive growth for in-flight entertainment
A report from Paris-based satellite consultancy Euroconsult says that the In-Flight Entertainment and Connectivity (IFEC) sector of the industry is going to enjoy “fabulous growth” although the study...
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