Arqiva, Samsung in UK 5G Fixed Wireless Access trial
Following a statement of intent in February, UK communications infrastructure company Arqiva and Samsung Electronics have confirmed that the first field trial of 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA)...
View ArticleCanal+ seeks TIM JV
France’s Canal+ is interested in creating a joint venture with Italian telco TIM for the acquisition of audiovisual rights and the production of original films and series. According to Italian media...
View ArticleOrange sees growth
France-based multinational telco Orange has reported revenue growth accelerated in the 2nd quarter of 2017, rising 1.4 per cent (+€138 million) after rising 0.8 per cent in the 1st quarter (+€85...
View ArticleCharter drops 90,000 subs in Q2
Charter Communications has reported lower Q2 earnings and continued pay-TV subscriber losses. The group led by chairman and CEO Tom Rutledge, lost 90,000 net residential pay-TV subscribers in the...
View ArticleOrange Spain ups TV subs
Orange Spain is performing well in capturing new TV subscribers. In the first half of the year, the company increased its TV subscription base with 540,000 adds – up 42 per cent on the same period last...
View ArticleThaicom signs telecom service deal with iSAT Africa
Thaicom, one of Asia’s leading satellite operators and provider of integrated satellite communications services, has signed an agreement with iSAT, an African telecommunications provider and a...
View ArticleBT promises £600m more for broadband upgrade
BT has proposed to provide universal broadband across the UK by 2020 in an attempt to stave off the spin-off of Openreach and /or a universal service obligation (see above). BT has made a voluntary...
View ArticleMPs call for poor broadband service compensation
The British Infrastructure Group of MPs (BIG) has called for UK Government to introduce legislation setting the terms for a broadband Universal Service Obligation, and for comms regulator Ofcom to...
View ArticleRCS&RDS accused of money laundering
Romanian and Hungarian cable operator RCS&RDS, and some key officials, have been accused of alleged money laundering offences. The company’s parent, Dutch-registered Digi Communications, in a...
View ArticleUK ISPs question parliamentary broadband report
The Internet Services Providers’ Association (ISPA UK) – the UK’s Trade Association for providers of Internet services – has criticised Broadbad 2.0, a report from the British Infrastructure Group...
View ArticleGilat propels Russian DTH market into broadband services
Gilat Satellite Networks, a specialist in satellite networking technology, solutions and services, has announced that NTV-Plus has selected the broadband service developed by Eutelsat Networks and...
View ArticleDTG’s D-Book 9 Conformance Test Suites now available
D-Book 9 Conformance Test Suites are now available to assist with the transition from MHEG to HbbTV, which was introduced for UK DTT in the DTG’s D-Book 9 published in November 2016. The Test Suites...
View ArticleOld TV signals fill UK broadband gaps
The broadband gap in a part of rural Monmouthshire in the UK is set to be plugged by TV broadcast frequencies left over from the digital switchover, the so-called ‘White Space’. A pilot scheme will see...
View ArticleITU: Youth continue to dominate Internet usage
Data released by ITU, the United Nations specialised agency for information and communication technologies (ICTs), show that 830 million young people are online, representing 80 per cent of the youth...
View ArticleVivendi vows to reduce dominant position in Mediaset
Italy’s Communications Authority AgCom has received a proposal from Vivendi, “to partially integrate and modify the plan presented on June 19th, aimed at eliminating the position of dominant influence...
View ArticleDeutsche Telekom Q2 exceeds expectations
Deutsche Telekom, Europe’s biggest telecom company, has posted quarterly results that topped expectations, with a 9 per cent rise in core profit powered by strength in the US and modest gains in...
View ArticleItaly: Sky in broadband talks with Open Fiber
Pay-TV group Sky is in talks with Italian wholesale network operator Open Fiber as part of its plans to offer a high-speed broadband service in Italy. A deal could be reached in October and Sky could...
View ArticleStudent-friendly converged packages from VM Ireland
Virgin Media has broken the chains on long term contracts and is offering, from today, 30-day broadband and 30-day TV services from as little as €20 a month. Customers who sign up to Virgin Media’s new...
View ArticleVirgin Media Ireland ‘real momentum’
Paul Farrell, Vice-President of Commercial at Virgin Media said: “Our revenues in the quarter increased year on year by 2 per cent to reach €102 million, reflecting the acquisition of UTV Ireland, now...
View ArticleUK ranked 31st for broadband speeds
New data, extracted by broadband recommendation site Cable.co.uk from over 63 million broadband speed tests worldwide has revealed that UK speeds are behind 30 other countries, with an average speed of...
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