UK full fibre: Industry reaction
Following publication by the UK Government of its long-term strategy for UK telecommunications, a number of industry players and trade bodies have voiced their opinion on forging a full fibre broadband...
View ArticleOfcom outlines full-fibre support measures
UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has outlined a package of proposed measures to support long-term investment in full-fibre networks. According to Ofcom, consistent, predictable regulation over the coming...
View Article4G connections in Europe overtook 3G in 2017
According to Dataxis research, the total Mobile SIM market in Europe is becoming saturated, the subscriber growth is mostly due to rapid adoption of 4G and M2M. At the end of 2017, there were 340...
View ArticleMalone retires from Charter Board
US broadband communications company Charter Communications, along with its subsidiaries, has announced that John C. Malone has retired from the Charter Board of Directors, but will continue to serve...
View ArticleWhite spaces initiative from RTO, Microsoft
Rural connectivity specialist RTO Wireless and Microsoft Corp are teaming up to provide broadband Internet access to more than 290,000 people living in unserved rural regions of New York and Maine. The...
View ArticleQualcomm scraps $44bn NXP deal
Chip-set giant Qualcomm has abandoned its proposed acquisition of Dutch rival NXP Semiconductors. The deal has been 20 months in progress and would have been the largest-ever in the semiconductor...
View Article€437m for 5G spectrum in Spain
Spain’s dominant telcos – Telefonica, Orange and Vodafone – have taken all the 5G spectrum on auction in Spain for €437 million, four times more than the initial price. MásMóvil withdrew from the...
View ArticleSES still under pressure; C-band a “win-win”
Half-yearly results from satellite operator SES showed video revenues – worth 67 per cent of group revenues – remain under pressure, with the company booking €650 million in H1 2018, but this was 2.3...
View ArticleBT Q1: ‘A good start’
Gavin Patterson, BT Chief Executive, has described the telco’s first quarter 2018 results as “a good start to the year”, making good progress against its strategy BT reported revenue of £5.715 billion,...
View ArticleTaqnia Space contracts additional capacity from Eutelsat
Saudi Arabia’s Taqnia Space (TSC) has signed a multi-year contract with Eutelsat including incremental multi-transponder wide-beam capacity on the Eutelsat 70B satellite as well as the fifth HTS...
View ArticleVodafone Spain commences 5G deployment
Vodafone Spain has started its deployment of 5G NSA networks in major Spanish cities including Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Valencia, Bilbao and Malaga. Vodafone, along with Huawei, has installed 30 x...
View ArticleTelesat super-constellation decision close
Telesat has signed contracts with a consortium comprising Thales Alenia Space and Maxar Technologies/SS-L to carry out the preliminary design for the proposed ‘super constellation’ of Telesat Low Earth...
View ArticleSES supports 5G-VINNI project
SES is continuing its commitment to satellite-enabled 5G networks by providing satellite fleet capacity, ground infrastructure and end-to-end solutions to the 5G Verticals Innovation Infrastructure...
View ArticleIntelsat’s “great opportunity”
Satellite operator Intelsat’s CEO Steve Spengler spoke of the company’s “great opportunity” and cited the near-completion of the deployment of its new ‘Epic’ fleet of craft and the raising of $633...
View ArticleAmdocs, MTS tech partnership
Amdocs, a provider of software and services to communications and media companies, has been selected as a technology partner for MTS, the Russian telecommunications group, to be a part of the initial...
View ArticleHome-grown platforms reinvigorate EU smart home market
Long challenged to emulate growth rates in the bellwether US market, the European smart home market and its proponents are increasingly finding a way to develop and adapt smart home offerings to suit...
View ArticleFCC to answer C-band consortium by “mid-2019”
A year from now and the FCC should have its answer for the consortium of Intelsat, SES, Eutelsat (and Intel) in their quest to sell some of their C-band satellite spectrum over the US. The consortium...
View ArticleVIAVI: 90% of fibre deployments drive Gbit Internet globally
Gigabit Internet is now available to 301 million people across 49 countries, according to the latest data in the Gigabit Monitor from VIAVI Solutions. The volume of gigabit Internet deployments has...
View ArticleEutelsat numbers: ‘Improving revenue trend’
Despite falls in overall revenues (down 1.9 per cent like-for-like) Eutelsat’s CEO Rodolphe Belmer says that the satellite operator is on the mend. “I would highlight the progressive improvement...
View ArticleBrazil: Hispasat, Gilat broadband partnership
Hispasat, the Spanish satellite communications operator, and Gilat Satellite Networks, a global player in satellite networking technology, have entered into a partnership to commercialise Hispasat’s Ka...
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