UK begins £200m full fibre rollout
The starting gun has been fired on a programme to roll out gigabit-capable full fibre broadband to the most rural and remote locations in the UK, Digital Secretary Jeremy Wright has announced. In the...
View ArticleBroadband Forum publishes open source USP Agent
Faster time-to-market for interoperable, standards-based Connected Home solutions which help operators unlock additional income has been made possible, as Broadband Forum published its Open Broadband –...
View ArticleMusk outlines Starlink service schedule
Elon Musk’s debut launch of 60 ‘Starlink’ satellites should happen on May 23rd – probably. Two planned launches last week were scrubbed for bad weather and in the case of the second launch in order to...
View ArticleOneWeb on schedule for autumn launches
According to Russia’s Sputnik news agency the first OneWeb satellites that will be launched by Soyuz-2 rockets from the Baikonur cosmodrome are on schedule for delivery to the launch site late summer...
View ArticleAirbus wins 3 satellite orders
Airbus Defence & Space has won orders for 3 geostationary satellites. In a complex series of contracts, two of the orders are carried out with Thales Alenia Space and the end customer is Spain’s...
View ArticleUK public names Plusnet its favourite broadband provider
Plusnet has been named best broadband provider in the UK for the third year in a row. Research and analysis from UK broadband comparison website Broadband Genie found Plusnet scored well across all...
View ArticleAnalyst: LatAm broadband penetration at 50% by 2020
Latin America’s broadband penetration reached 45 per cent of households in 2018 from a previous 43 per cent in 2017. Going forward, 10 million new accesses are expected within two years and internet...
View ArticleCBA provides C-band plan details
The C-Band Alliance (CBA) of Intelsat, SES, Eutelsat and Telesat) has provided extremely detailed plans of its proposals to free up C-band spectrum over the US. The Alliance, in its submission to the...
View ArticleSpain most expensive European pay-TV country
Spain is the most expensive European country when it comes to pay-TV, according to a report from kelisto.es Taking a pay-TV package is 20 per cent more expensive than the average in the UK, France,...
View ArticleReport: Broadband usage continued to grow rapidly in Q1
Driven in part by the rise in Internet-only subscribers and an increasing number of “power users,” overall broadband usage continued to grow rapidly in the first quarter of 2019, according to a report...
View ArticlePositive response to C-Band Alliance proposals
Analysts responded positively to the C-Band Alliance’s (CBA) plans for releasing up to 180 MHz of satellite C-band spectrum. One suggested the scheme was now entering the “homestretch”. Barclays’ Nick...
View ArticleAnalyst: Telcos to dominate W European pay-TV
Reflecting the rising importance of the telcos, IPTV is gaining subscribers in Western Europe at the expense of the other pay-TV platforms, according to findings from analyst firm Digital TV Research....
View ArticleOfcom boost for fibre investment
Companies laying high-speed fibre cables for broadband and mobile networks will benefit from greater access to Openreach’s telegraph poles and underground tunnels, under draft decisions announced by...
View ArticleFrance: IPTV passes DTT reception
IPTV reception has continued its steady growth in the third and fourth quarters of 2018 and is now received by 56.7 per cent of French homes (up 1.7 point over one year), passing terrestrial reception...
View ArticleStarlink: SpaceX launches 60 broadband satellites
A SpaceX rocket, in a landmark launch, placed 60 ‘Starlink’ satellites into orbit on the evening of May 23rd. Lift-off was precisely as planned – despite two cancellations last week – when the rocket...
View ArticleEuropean finals FTA on Virgin TV
All customers of UK multiplay operator Virgin TV will be able to watch this year’s UEFA Champions League and Europa League final free of charge. Four Premier League sides will compete in the final of...
View ArticleUK ‘altnets’ increase full-fibre coverage by 30%
A report has revealed that the UK’s independent network providers (altnets) increased full-fibre coverage by 30 per cent in 2018, reaching almost 1.3 million premises. Compiled for the Independent...
View ArticleFCC 5G auctions raise over $2.7bn
The FCC has concluded the bidding in Auction 102, the Commission’s second auction of millimetre wave spectrum suitable for 5G, which is providing licences in the 24 GHz band. With the closing of...
View ArticleAirbus wins 3 satellite deal from Inmarsat
Airbus has signed a contract with Inmarsat, a global player in mobile satellite communications, to design, manufacture and build the first in their next generation of geostationary Ka-band satellites,...
View ArticleSES secures Brazilian VNO contract
SES Network’s division has signed a contract with Brazil’s Briskcom Partners to use SES-10 for a virtual network service over the country. Briskcom will expand its service offering by customising and...
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