Ethiopia links with China for satellite
Ethiopia will order a joint-venture satellite with China for communications and broadcasting. The agreement was signed on May 27th at an event in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital. Dr Solomon Belay,...
View ArticleOfcom: Adults spend 50 days per year online
Internet users in the UK are increasingly worried about being online, research suggests, with around four in every five harbouring concerns. The joint study by Ofcom and the Information Commissioner’s...
View ArticleCBA releases key data to FCC
The C-Band Alliance (of Intelsat, SES, Eutelsat and Telesat) has submitted the satellite usage data that the FCC requested in April. The filings give the FCC complete insight into the usage of C-band...
View ArticleResearch: UK digital divide is real
Research by satellite broadband provider bigblu, in partnership with Konnect Europe, reveals that people living in UK rural areas with low quality Internet must travel up to five miles to get...
View ArticleDNA launching TV & broadband in South Finland
DNA is launching faster broadband and next-generation television services for housing companies and householders across the Tampere region in South Finland. The company has agreed to purchase an...
View ArticleMusk’s Starlink active this winter?
Elon Musk’s satellite-based broadband constellation could start offering services over North America after just 6 batches of satellites have been launched. The first batch of 60 satellites were...
View ArticleTelenor boosts Wi-Fi offering with SoftAtHome
SoftAtHome, the technology company delivering a seamless experience at home and on the go, and Telenor, the leading operator in Norway, today announce the deployment of Telenor’s Wi-Fi Amplifier. The...
View ArticlePromptlink cutting the noise
Promptlink Communications, a provider of software applications for the management and testing of broadband networks and equipment, has announced the launch of Network NoiseHawk. Utilising a...
View ArticleUnited Group acquires Tele2 Croatia
United Group, South Eastern Europe’s leading telecoms and media business, has agreed to acquire Tele2 Croatia for an enterprise value of €220 million. The transaction is expected to close before the...
View ArticleDirecTV in another carriage row
An NBC affiliated station in the US has been blacked out because of a carriage dispute with DirecTV. KMTR (NBC 16) which serves viewers in Oregon, put out a statement on May 31st saying that DirecTV...
View ArticleUK pay-TV & broadband firms to put fairness first
The UK’s biggest broadband, phone and pay-TV companies have committed to put fairness at the heart of their business, after signing up to Ofcom’s new Fairness for Customers commitments. The media...
View ArticleFTTH Council Europe elects new President
During its General Assembly, the FTTH Council Europe formally adopted its working programme and announced the results of the annual election of its President, Board members and Working Committee...
View ArticleHarmonic adds new capabilities to CableOS software
Harmonic has announced a suite of new capabilities that are being added to its field-proven CableOS virtualised cable access solution. “The next generation of CableOS software solidifies our market...
View ArticleIskratel carrier-grade PON solution
Broadband access solutions provider Iskratel is claiming that an important milestone in enabling operators to deploy carrier-grade, virtualised PON solutions has been reached with its launched of a...
View ArticleSSIMWAVE’s human touch content evaluation, encoding
SSIMWAVE, a specialist in the science of perceptual video quality measurement, has confirmed the availability of SSIMPLUS VOD Inspector, which it says is the first tool that enables the media industry...
View ArticleBT picks Juniper for big cloud
BT is aiming to create a single, cloud-based technology platform to bring various lines of business together and enable a more flexible, virtualised network infrastructure. It will use the platform for...
View ArticleBT agrees £50m sponsorship deal with The FA
BT has signed a five-year deal with The FA, worth around £50 million (€56.3m) to become the exclusive lead partner for all England representative teams and home of the national game, Wembley Stadium....
View ArticleVendors collaborate for FTTX solution
Three broadband equipment vendors – Emtelle, HellermannTyton and Senko Advanced Components — have revealed the fruits of a collaborative project and launched a brand-new solution into the...
View ArticleAlticast deploys Nokia vDAA solution
Altibox, one of the largest regional telecommunication operators in Norway and Denmark, will deploy Nokia’s Gainspeed Unified Cable Access solution, based on a fully virtualised Distributed Access...
View ArticleRDK deployments top 50m
RDK Management has shared details about the adoption of RDK open source software used to power customer-premises equipment (CPE) from video and broadband services providers worldwide. “Service...
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