Liberty sells UPC Switzerland; Q4 up 1.2%
Liberty Global has agreed a deal to sell its Swiss business – UPC Switzerland – to Sunrise Communications Group in a deal worth $6.3 billion (€5.5bn) including debt. Liberty Global expects the sale of...
View ArticleReport: Panama’s $1.6bn telecoms market
Panama’s mobile data, fixed broadband, and pay-TV services revenue totalled $1.4 billion in 2018. This is expected to grow to $1.6 billion in 2023, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.8 per...
View ArticleO3b planning March 29 launch date
Arianespace says that it will launch the next batch of SES-backed O3b satellites on March 29th. The company will use the Russian Soyuz rocket for the task, and the mission is to carry four O3b...
View ArticleEutelsat KONNECT satellite payload mates with platform
Eutelsat Communications has announced the successful mating of the platform and payload of the KONNECT satellite, conducted at Thales Alenia Space’s facilities in Cannes. This operation is a major step...
View ArticleBroadband Forum publishes 2nd code release of OB-BAA project
Broadband Forum has completed and published the second code release of its Open Broadband – Broadband Access Abstraction (OB-BAA) project. Release 2.0 of OB-BAA builds on the functionalities enabled by...
View ArticleTelesat adjusts to manage LEO scheme
Ottawa-based satellite operator Telesat, the world’s fourth-largest, is moving some assets around in preparation for its planned multi-billion dollar constellation of Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) craft....
View ArticleMaxar/SS-L cuts 4% of staff
Maxar Technologies, which owns the Space Systems/Loral satellite building division, suffered net losses for the year to December 31st of $1.26 billion on group revenues of $2.14 billion. As a...
View ArticleRecord profits for Euskaltel
Basque-Country cable operator Euskaltel made a profit record of €62.8 million in 2018, up 26.6 per cent versus the previous year. Total revenues grew by 11.2 per cent to €691.6 million, with €463.3...
View ArticleFrench FTTH rollouts gaining ground
France’s electronic communications Arcep is publishing has published its scoreboard for the fixed broadband and superfast broadband market (rollouts and subscriptions) in France as of the end of...
View ArticleFrench pay-TV revenues drop 2%
The 2017 revenues of 81 French pay-TV channels dropped by 2 per cent over one year to €2.85 billion, following a 1 per cent decrease the previous year. According to the financial round-up established...
View ArticleUS C-Band “on track”
Eutelsat has held a series of ‘road show’ presentations to US-based analysts, and an investment bank report says that while no new financial information emerged, Eutelsat’s management say that they...
View ArticleBrexit “galactic stupidity” for UK space industry
The UK space industry is worth some €12 billion annually, and helps fund 40,000 jobs, according to a report entitled Brexit: Lost in Space,which states bluntly that these jobs are at risk if Brexit...
View ArticleSky “misleading” broadband ad banned
A TV commercial for Sky’s broadband service has been banned after complaints from rivals BT and Virgin were upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). The duo argued it made misleading claims...
View ArticleSES prays for C-band
Unofficially SES is trying to calm investor expectations on the extremely important prospects for some C-band restructuring over the US. The logic is sensible given that a negative Federal...
View ArticleHuawei opens ‘transparency centre’
Huawei has opened a Cyber Security Transparency Centre in Brussels in a ceremony with 200 representatives from regulators, telecom carriers, enterprises and the media in attendance. Huawei, the world’s...
View ArticleVodafone Spain tops broadband complaints
Vodafone has been named the most-complained about broadband company in Spain, just weeks after topping the same chart in the UK. The company took half of all (48.3 per cent) complaints made to the...
View ArticleResearch: US cord-cutting nearly doubles in 2018
Findings from Leichtman Research Group indicate that the largest pay-TV providers in the US – representing about 95 per cent of the market – lost about 2,875,000 net video subscribers in 2018, compared...
View ArticleEs’hail-2 in commercial service
Es’hailSat, the Qatar Satellite Company, has announced that its recently launched satellite, Es’hail-2, has entered commercial service to serve government, broadcast and telecommunications sectors in...
View ArticleResearch: 39m Americans switched SPs in 2018
According to research by broadband Internet services consumer champion BroadbandNow, some 39 million US adults added or switched home Internet, TV or phone service in 2018. The research, BroadbandNow...
View ArticleReport: Global fixed broadband subs at 1.2bn by 2025
The markets and technologies which will drive continued rapid broadband growth over the next decade have been revealed by Broadband Forum and Point Topic in a report which predicts there will be 1.2...
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