Vodafone Spain to axe 1,000 staff
Vodafone Spain plans to dismiss 1,000 staff from its current 5,000 workforce as it seeks to stay afloat in the country’s competitive pay-TV market. According to El Pais, the redundancy plan will be...
View ArticleFilmBox extends agreement with PR-Telecom
SPI / Filmbox Hungary and PR-Telecom have extended their long-term cooperation contract for two more years. The deal takes the agreement into its 9th year. The signed partnership is for the period...
View ArticleOpenreach: 81 new Gfast locations
UK broadband infrastructure provider Openreach has announced an extension to its Gfast ultrafast broadband footprint with a plan to make faster, more reliable broadband available to just over a million...
View ArticleGSMA: Middle East mobile operators set for 5G leadership
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Arab States are set to be global leaders in the deployment of 5G networks, with all six markets expected to launch 5G mobile services in the next two years, according...
View ArticleEricsson: 5G to reach 1.5bn subs in 2024
5G is expected to reach more than 40 per cent global population coverage and 1.5 billion subscriptions for enhanced mobile broadband by the end of 2024. This will make 5G the fastest generation of...
View ArticleBT study: 43% believe poor wi-fi restricts home life
BT has released a study into modern families and how they use technology in their homes. The study on British families and the homes they inhabit has uncovered the full extent of how families use...
View ArticleBT launches Complete Wi-Fi
BT Plus now comes with a ‘Complete Wi-Fi’ guarantee – ensuring customers get strong wi-fi signal in every room of their home With its Complete Wi-Fi, BT guarantees customers wall-to-wall coverage, and...
View ArticleCisco VNI: Video to be 82% of net traffic
The Internet is made up of thousands of public and private networks around the world. And since it came to life in 1984, more than 4.7 zettabytes of IP traffic have flowed across it. That’s the same as...
View ArticleWitbe launches QoE Snapshots
Witbe, a specialist in Quality of Experience Monitoring, has announced the launch of its QoE Snapshots. In the same way that a consumer report tests a product and publishes an analysis of its overall...
View ArticleAWS Elemental launches MediaConnect
Amazon Web Services has announced the availability of AWS Elemental MediaConnect, a reliable, secure, and flexible service for ingesting, transmitting and replicating live video feeds. AWS Elemental...
View ArticleNZ next to ban Huawei
New Zealand’s intelligence agency has blocked the telecom industry’s first request to use 5G equipment provided by China’s Huawei Technologies. Services provider Spark New Zealand, which made the...
View ArticleIDATE highlights challenges in global FTTH coverage
The new Connecting Everyone report from French research company IDATE has revealed the real-world challenges in building universal Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) coverage, leaving a massive opportunity for...
View ArticleAmazon goes into space
Amazon’s Cloud business is launching a satellite direct connection service and representing the company’s first public move into space-based hardware and a continuation of its efforts to support the...
View ArticleOneWeb to start building satellites in Florida
OneWeb Satellites will start building its first satellites from its brand-new Florida production facility in January. The Exploration Park factory, itself a joint-venture between OneWeb and Airbus...
View ArticleAltice takes €1.8bn FTTH investment
Altice France is selling a group of investors a 49.99 per cent stake in SFR FTTH, a new fibre venture that will bring fibre to 5 million French premises. Allianz Capital Partners, AXA Investment...
View ArticleEutelsat helps world’s first 8K channel
Eutelsat carried live 8K signals from Rome’s Vatican City to Japan in order to help launch the world’s first 8K channel for NHK, the country’s public broadcaster. NHK partnered with Eutelsat on...
View ArticleFTTH warns against misleading Fibre promotions
The FTTH Council has written an open letter to attendees at the Telecoms Council, warning against misleading promotions for fibre speeds and service levels: ‘As the European Electronic Communications...
View ArticleRussia to build IoT satellite constellation
Russian space agency Roscosmos says it will create a new mega-constellation of satellites to serve Internet of Things demand. The ‘Marathon’ constellation will likely comprise hundreds of craft and...
View ArticleEU to probe Vodafone – Liberty deal
It now seems the EU’s preliminary look at Liberty Global’s multiple asset sale to Vodafone will lead to a full antitrust probe. The decision is due December 11th. The deal centres on Germany and...
View ArticleInmarsat wins major arbitration award
Speciality services provider RigNet, which supplies telecoms connectivity to oil rig crews, VSAT customers, mobile connectivity and wireless broadband, has suffered a significant set-back in a dispute...
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