China muscles in on satellite broadband
One of the difficulties is coping with announcement of new satellite constellations is coming up with a superlative to describe a really large number when describing gigantic plans. The latest news,...
View ArticleDeutsche Telekom: 100 Mbps Internet for 200,000 homes
Deutsche Telekom’s vectoring upgrades are continuing with vigour in 2018: as of today, almost 200,000 more households in 209 cities and communities can now connect to the Internet with up to 100 Mbps...
View ArticleInmarsat trims dividend, boosts IFE investment
Rupert Pearce, CEO of London-based Inmarsat, told investors on March 9th that the satellite operator would cut its dividend from 54 cents (in 2016) to 33.6 cents for the past year, to permit the...
View ArticleAT&T/TW: ‘Merger not anti-competitive’
AT&T and Time Warner have argued in court documents filed on March 9th that competition with online media players would prevent prices from rising if the proposed $85.4 billion (€78.5bn) merger is...
View ArticleAnalyst: US pay-TV revenues to fall by $27bn
US pay-TV revenues peaked in 2015, at $101.71 billion (€82.51bn), according to the eighth edition of the North America Pay TV Forecasts report from Digital TV Research. A $26.58 billion decline (26 per...
View ArticleIliad misses forecasts on Italy plans
French telco Iliad missed market forecasts for its 2017 profit increase due to losses related to its planned launch in Italy. The company, majority-owned by its billionaire founder Xavier Niel, said...
View ArticleQL awarded 5G and TV whitespace field trials
Satellite Solutions Worldwide Group, a global player in the delivery of alternative super-fast broadband services, has announces that Quickline Communications (QL), a wholly owned subsidiary of SSW,...
View ArticleTrade bodies launch Global Satellite Coalition
Six of the world’s leading satellite industry associations have established the Global Satellite Coalition (GSC), an international group through which targeted initiatives will be coordinated and...
View ArticleTelefónica to invest €6.6bn in Brazil
Spanish telco Telefónica aims to replicate Spain’s Movistar model in Brazil through its massive deployment of optic fibre. The company intends to invest €6.6 billion in the country between this year...
View ArticleSpain, Hong Kong climb Netflix ISP Speed Index
Netflix has released February data from its ISP Speed Index, a monthly update on which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide the best primetime Netflix streaming experience. Hong Kong’s iCable...
View ArticleUS pay-TV sheds 1.5m subs
According to findings from Leichtman Research Group, the largest pay-TV providers in the US – representing about 95 per cent of the market – lost about 1,495,000 net video subscribers in 2017, compared...
View ArticleLeoSat promises 1.5x faster than fibre
Washington-based would-be satellite operator LeoSat is in the process of building (in conjunction with Thales Alenia Space) and launching up to 108 Ka-band craft into a low-earth orbiting (LEO)...
View ArticleCord-cutting in Canada bucks the trend
Canada’s publicly traded television service providers combined lost almost 20 per cent fewer TV subscribers in 2017 compared to 2016, bucking the trend of accelerating TV cord-cutting in recent years,...
View ArticleOneWeb will be open to other satellite operators
OneWeb, the massive satellite constellation being planned by Greg Wyler and in which Intelsat has a modest shareholding, will be open to other satellite users of its capacity. The news, outlined by...
View ArticleHispasat to launch triple play services
Spanish satellite operator Hispasat and Global Skyware, a provider of satellite equipment owned by Global Invacom Group, have reached an agreement to develop a device that allows triple play services...
View ArticleKagan: US pay-TV subs record annual loss
Subscription losses slowed for traditional multichannel video providers in Q4 2017 (quarter ended December 31st, 2017), but the sector still tumbled for the full year, according to data compiled by...
View ArticleAltice sees signs of recovery
Altice, the Netherlands-based multinational telecoms company, said it was seeing signs of a recovery in the French market as it reported its annual results. The debt-ridden group is currently...
View Article£67m boost for a Full Fibre future
Tens of thousands of businesses and homes across the UK are set to benefit from a £67 million (€75.9m) investment in faster Internet connections, the Chancellor Philip Hammond has announced. The...
View ArticleGlobe Telecom anti-piracy campaign success
Philippines broadband telco Globe has won three creative competition Kidlat Awards for its execution of #PlayItRight’s ‘Piracy vs. Piracy’, the company’s homegrown advocacy to encourage Filipinos to...
View ArticleAnalyst: E Europe to add 17m digital pay-TV subs
The number of digital pay-TV subscribers in Eastern Europe will increase from 25.49 million in 2010 to 61.57 million in 2017 and onto 78.08 million by 2023. The Eastern Europe Pay TV Forecasts report...
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