Mirada Bolivian multiscreen deal
Mirada, a provider of integrated software solutions for digital TV operators and broadcasters, has secured a five-year contract with Digital TV Cable Edmund, a pay-TV operator and broadband services...
View ArticleFoxtel revamps broadband pricing
Having recently expanded its availability of nbn (national broadband network) services Australian quad-play operator Foxtel has announced new pricing for its broadband bundling. Existing customers can...
View ArticleIntelsat fights back; Market likes C-band plan
All last week there was something of a ‘tug of war’ between Intelsat and other major industry players regarding the Intelsat/Intel proposal to see some Intelsat C-band frequencies leased to cellular...
View ArticleOneWeb targets 1bn subs by 2025
OneWeb is a planned ‘mega- constellation’ of low-Earth orbiting satellites (at 1200 kms high), and designed to provide high-speed broadband to just about any point on the planet. It is backed...
View ArticlePortugal, Greece, Israel climb Neflix Speed Index
Netflix has released September data from its ISP Speed Index – a monthly update on which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide the best primetime Netflix streaming experience. Thailand’s 3BB and...
View ArticleIFE: A global opportunity for Panasonic Avionics
Panasonic Avionics says it has now equipped almost 1800 commercial aircraft with its In Flight Entertainment (IFE), and has an order backlog of some 2200 aircraft still to be equipped. Panasonic has –...
View ArticleMENA: 50m 5G connections by 2025
The prospects for immense 5G growth in the Middle East and North Africa has emerged from a study by the GSM Association and released at an event in Dubai on Oct 8th and saying that Middle East mobile...
View ArticleWestern European TV market worth €99bn
The TV market in Western Europe was worth €99.4 billion at the end of 2016, accounting for an annual growth rate of 1.8 per cent. This compares to a 17.5 per cent growth over the period 2006-2016, at...
View ArticleNokia and WOW! deploy vDAA
Nokia and WOW!, a US broadband provider, have announced what they claim is the industry’s first commercial virtualised Distributed Access Architecture (vDAA) deployment. Nokia’s Unified Cable Access...
View ArticleSwitzerland: MySports to offer eSports
Recognising the increasing popularity and potential of eSports, Swiss channel MySports is bringing a new TV format to Switzerland. From October 23rd, episodes of the Arena eSports programme will be...
View ArticleCableLabs completes Full Duplex DOCSIS spec
US cable industry research and development lab CableLabs has completed the Full Duplex DOCSIS 3.1 specification, designed to help cable operators find cost-effective solutions to meet the growing...
View ArticleEuroconsult: ‘300 satellite launches per year to 2026’
A study (Satellites to be Built & Launched by 2026) from Paris-based Euroconsult says that it anticipates that 300 satellites with a mass over 50 kg will be launched on average each year by 2026...
View ArticleAkamai supports customers adopting IoT
Akamai Technologies, the cloud delivery platform, has unveiled the company’s strategy to support its customers’ incorporation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices into their IT infrastructures. Through...
View ArticleSNY selects Mediaproxy
Mediaproxy, a provider of software-based IP broadcast solutions for compliance, monitoring and analysis, has announced that New York sports broadcaster SNY has chosen its LogServer software solution...
View ArticleViaSat to hit Inmarsat with legal action
The FT reports that satellite operator ViaSat of California will sue Inmarsat over what ViaSat describes as “blatant misuse of [satellite] spectrum, which must stop now”. UK regulator Ofcom this week...
View ArticleAustralia: nbn has 3m activated premises
nbn, the company building Australia’s national broadband network, has reached the important milestone of three million activated premises on the nbn broadband access network from a total of six million...
View ArticleUK lags in mobile Internet usage
Mobile devices (including both smartphones and tablets) will account for 73 per cent of time spent using the Internet globally in 2018, up from 70 per cent in 2017 and 65 per cent in 2016, according to...
View ArticleFaster Internet, more content to galvanise APAC OTT market
Faster bandwidth, growing 4G coverage, ever-increasing smartphone and pay-TV penetration, improving payment options, falling data tariffs and rising per capita income are set to collectively spur OTT...
View ArticleAirTies launches Remote Manager
AirTies Wireless Networks, a provider of premium in-home wireless systems and STB solutions, has unveiled AirTies Remote Manager, new in-home Wi-Fi performance management system for service providers....
View ArticleStudy: 5G to be 33% of Europe’s mobile market
More than 30 per cent of Europe’s mobile connections will be running on 5G networks by 2025, according to a new GSMA study. The 2017 Europe edition of the GSMA’s Mobile Economy series, forecasts that...
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