Rostelcom looks to satellite pay-TV
Russian telco Rostelcom says it is looking to buy a satellite pay-TV operator. News agency Itar-TASS quotes Rostelcom as saying that it wishes to expand its current pay-TV subscriber base (6.6 million...
View ArticleTriple-play revenues to reach $144bn by 2018
Telcos and cable operators are investing heavily in their networks to upgrade their subscribers to bundles (triple-play or double-play). These operators will reap the rewards of this investment as...
View Article4G connections to reach 1bn by 2017
There will be more one than billion mobile connections to the super-fast 4G network by 2017, according to a research study by GSMA. It is predicted that 4G will account for one in eight of the more...
View ArticleCox joins Time Warner hunt?
Cox Communications, the third-largest US cable-television operator, is considering joining the potential bidders for Time Warner Cable, reports Bloomberg. A deal, which be a merger or acquisition, is...
View ArticleVivendi to spin off SFR
Vivendi has confirmed its plan to split in two. The French group is to spin off its SFR telecommunications company and list it separately on the stock market. “This plan could take the form of a...
View ArticlePortugal has 3.16m pay-TV subs
Portugal had 3.16 million pay-TV subscribers at the end of the Q3 2013, up 0.4 per cent on the previous quarter and by 1.6 per cent year-on-year, according to figures published by regulator Anacom. The...
View ArticleTeliaSonera sacks senior managers
TeliaSonera has cleared out its senior management, firing its chief financial officer and three other employees, after an ethics review into the Swedish telco’s deals in central Asia. Per-Arne...
View Article4G boosts content on mobiles
Orange has published the results of Orange Exposure 2013/2014 – an annual independent study by TNS into media habits across UK, France and Spain. This year’s study takes an early look at the impact of...
View ArticleSK Broadband deploys Arris E6000
SK Broadband, an integrated communications company in South Korea, is deploying the E6000 Converged Edge Router (CER) from Arris Group, enabling the service provider to launch its new 1GB data service,...
View ArticleTSB quits Neterra business
Bulgarian telco Neterra Communications is switching satellites for its DTH ‘white label’ (W4) transmissions. Spacecom’s Amos is the new carrier, and Neterra is switching from Telenor’s 1 degree West...
View ArticleEE superfast for 29 more UK towns
EE, the UK digital communications company, has announced that 4G is now live in 10 more towns and cities, bringing the total to 141. Masts across the UK are being upgraded every day as 4G demand...
View ArticleEC’s Kroes: Balanced approach to net neutrality
Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, has suggested that Commission will take a balanced approach to net neutrality in proposing measures designed...
View ArticleTeliaSonera, Telenor Norway allocated new frequencies
Telenor Norway has been allocated new 3G and 4G frequencies. By purchasing new frequencies Telenor aims to offer even better 4G coverage to Norwegian customers as soon as early 2014. “This is a big day...
View ArticleTWC names Jain COO
Time Warner Cable has confirmed that Dinni Jain will join the company as Chief Operating Officer, in January 2014. He will take over from Rob Marcus who steps up to a CEO. Marcus – formerly also CFO...
View ArticleDirecTV-Dish deal ‘not likely soon’
Investment bank Morgan Stanley says that a deal to merge US DTH pay-TV operators DirecTV and Dish is unlikely in the near-to-medium term, largely because of regulatory concerns, but that in the longer...
View ArticleLaunch for first Inmarsat Global Xpress
Inmarsat has confirmed the successful launch of its first Global Xpress (GX) satellite (Inmarsat-5 F1) on board a Proton Breeze M rocket launched in Kazakhstan on December 8th. Over the coming two...
View ArticleAustralia not embracing ‘Digital Age’
Despite living in the ‘Digital Age’, Australia is currently not prepared to fully take advantage of the services afforded by next generation broadband according to a research report. Developed by the...
View ArticleForecast: UK broadband install slows in 2016
The latest broadband forecasts from Point Topic have dropped the expected number of broadband lines in the UK by almost 8 per cent at the end of 2016, from just under 26 million lines to 23.88 million....
View ArticleBroadband deepens in US; Cable is king
Close to four-fifths of the US is now connected in some form to broadband, with cable remaining the dominant mode of access across the continent-wide landmass, according to a report from IHS....
View ArticleTWC CEO: Comcast merger not imminent
Time Warner Cable’s incoming CEO Rob Marcus, speaking at the UBS Global Media series of presentations in New York, told analysts that his previous comments seeming to suggest that a TWC merger with...
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