Australia: Premier League boosts Optus subs
More Australians than three years ago are using Optus fixed broadband and mobile phone services following Optus’s purchase of the exclusive Australian rights to English Premier League football. Optus...
View ArticlePoland: INEA selects AirTies
AirTies Wireless Networks, a provider of managed Wi-Fi Mesh solutions to global service providers, today announced that INEA, one of the largest cable networks in Poland, chose AirTies to deliver...
View ArticleCableway, Vodafone Germany partnership agreement
Teleste’s subsidiary Cableway has signed a new three-year strategic partnership agreement with Vodafone Germany for installation and maintenance services to service Vodafone’s cable network customers...
View ArticleBurkina Faso contracts SES for e-learning
The Burkina Faso government in west Africa has contracted with SES Networks for a batch of digital connectivity services including e-learning, e-government and e-health access for its citizens. The...
View ArticleDeutsche Telekom: 100 Mbit/s in 430,000 more homes
Increased broadband speeds do not necessarily require network build-out; network restructuring can be just as effective, according to Deutsche Telekom. Over the last four weeks, the German telco...
View ArticleANGA COM announces record exhibitors
Five weeks before it starts, ANGA COM has announced new record with 500 exhibitors. Besides the number of companies also the rented floor space has been further increased. In total, 36 countries will...
View ArticleDutch space approval for 50 IoT satellites
Magnitude Space, recently renamed as Hiber Global, has received approval from the Radiocommunications Agency Netherlands to launch a fleet of up to 50 small nano-satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO)...
View ArticlePanasonic settles Avionics bribery allegations
Panasonic Avionics has agreed to pay some $280 million in an agreement with the US Department of Justice (DoJ) in order to settle criminal and civil allegations over falsified bribery payments to...
View ArticleUPC Q1 revenues up 7.5%
UPC, the Swiss cable operator, reported it achieved above-average growth in the business customer segment once again in the first quarter of 2018 (+12.6 per cent revenue growth compared with the same...
View ArticleLiberty Q1: Revenues up, subs growth slows
Liberty Global has posted its Q1 2018 financial results, revealing its strongest quarterly revenue growth in nearly five years for the three months to March 31st 2018. However, the international cable...
View ArticleOfcom: Average UK broadband speeds up 28%
Ofcom’s annual Home Broadband Performance report reveals the actual broadband speeds that UK residential consumers experienced in November 2017. This study uses a representative panel of over 4,000...
View ArticleVodafone/LG €18.4bn deal
In a transaction that it says accelerates its converged communications strategy through in-market consolidation in its largest market, Germany, and in its Central and Eastern European (CEE) markets,...
View ArticleWitbe invests in the UK market
As TV Connect, the IP video distribution conference and expo, got under way in London, quality of experience monitoring specialist Witbe took the opportunity to announce the grand opening of a UK...
View ArticleErgen backs satellite’s role in 5G expansion
Speaking during a post-results call with industry analysts, Charlie Ergen (founder/chairman of Dish Network and EchoStar) is backing how satellite could help the deployment of 5G services. While...
View ArticleBT axing 13,000 staff; TV subs decline
BT is preparing to cut 13,000 staff over the next three years and move out of its London HQ after nearly 150 years, as it seeks to cut £1.5 billion (€1.71bn) in costs after a difficult 18 months. The...
View ArticleUS: ‘Net neutrality’ ends on June 11
The US Federal Communications Commission’s Restoring Internet Freedom Order will take effect on June 11, returning the regulation of Internet service providers to what the FCC describes as “the...
View ArticleEutelsat Q3 expectations
Hopes are high that Paris-based Eutelsat will today (May 14th) unveil its Q3 results and perhaps, just perhaps, there will be a little top-line growth. That’s the view from equity analysts at...
View ArticleResearch: Telecoms, pay-TV spend to speed up
Worldwide spending on telecommunications and pay-TV services reached $1,662 billion (€1,389 bn) in 2017, an increase of 1.4 per cent year over year (in constant dollar terms), according to market...
View Article“Other” worries affecting Eutelsat
One market analyst described Eutelsat Q3 results, released May 14th, as “idiosyncratic”. They were best described as flat, with CEO Rodolphe Belmer explaining that Eutelsat’s extremely important...
View ArticleVodafone’s Colao to step down
The Board of global telco Vodafone Group has revealed the succession plan for the role of Group Chief Executive. Effective October 1st 2018, Vittorio Colao will be succeeded by Group Chief Financial...
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