Openreach ‘full fibre’ pricing boost
UK digital network infrastructure provider Openreach is introducing a number of wholesale price reductions to encourage Communications Providers (CPs) to upgrade their customers – and attract new ones...
View ArticleOneWeb opens factory
OneWeb will today start producing the first of its massive fleet of almost 700 satellite. The factory, to be officially opened today, is itself is a joint-venture between OneWeb and Airbus Space and...
View ArticleAmazon Prime on Virgin TV
Some six years after it agreed a similar deal with Netflix, customers of UK multiplay operator Virgin Media can now access Amazon Prime Video for the first time directly through Virgin TV. The July...
View ArticleCenturyLink expands fibre network across US and Europe
As customer demand for extreme high-capacity, low-latency data transport continues to grow, hybrid networking and cloud connectivity specialist CenturyLink is utilising its global multi-conduit...
View ArticleT-Mobile/Sprint merger: Dish Network role
Charlie Ergen’s DTH pay-TV Dish Network definitely has a role in the success of the T-Mobile/Sprint giant merger. Dish will pay in $5 billion for certain wireless assets, including Boost Mobile, and...
View ArticleOfcom: TalkTalk most complained about pay-TV in Q1
Ofcom has published the latest league tables on the complaints it receives about the UK’s major home phone, broadband, mobile and pay-TV firms. The quarterly report reveals the number of complaints...
View ArticleResearch: 22% US broadband homes have Wi-Fi network extender
Parks Associates research from the 360 View: CE Adoption & Trends report finds 22 per cent of US broadband households have a Wi-Fi network extender and 11 per cent have a Wi-Fi mesh networking...
View ArticleTelesat wins “digital divide” contract
Ottawa-based satellite operator Telesat has won a hugely valuable contract from the Canadian government. The overall value of the contract, designed to fill the “digital divide” for Canadian citizens...
View ArticleOrange Spain: Subs up, revenues flat
Orange Spain’s revenues remained flat in the first half of the year reaching €2.6 billion, down 0.4 per cent versus the same period last year. EBITDA grew by 2 per cent to €787 million and CAPEX...
View ArticleVirgin Media plans gigabit roll-out
UK multiplay operator Virgin Media has unveiled what it describes as a “bold boost” to UK broadband with plans that will bring next-generation gigabit connections to its entire network by the end of...
View ArticleForecast: PON equipment market revenue $7.3bn by 2023
According to a report by Dell’Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the telecommunications, networks, and data centre IT industries, global PON equipment market revenue is forecast...
View ArticleMasmovil sees record revenue
Convergent telco Masmovil Group’s H1 indicate the company continues to lead the acquisition of customers in the Spanish telecommunications market and reaching new record for both revenues and EBITDA....
View ArticleSoftBank helps OneWeb commercialisation
Japan’s media conglomerate SoftBank says it has signed a “business agreement” in order to “advance” OneWeb’s commercial services in preparation for the satellite operator’s high-speed, low latency...
View ArticleSES: “Solid” H1
Satellite operator SES has described its Half Year 2019 Results as “solid”, with continued revenue growth in Networks, strong control over cost and discretionary spending and important progress towards...
View ArticleTechnicolor passes 4m DOCSIS 3.1 equipment shipments
Technicolor’s Connected Home business has shipped more than 4 million units of DOCSIS 3.1 devices to cable providers in the EMEA, APAC, and Americas regions. In North America, the leading cable...
View ArticleCBA comments help satellite players
A few positive words on July 26th from SES CEO Steve Collar on the prospects for a favourable agreement from the FCC helped send share prices for the key member of the C-Band Alliance on a firm upward...
View ArticleEuskaltel net profit down 20%
Spain’s fifth largest telco group, Euskaltel – owned by UK investor Zegona – saw its net profit fall by 20.5 per cent in the first half of the year to €23 million. Total revenues fell by 1.86 per cent...
View ArticleVodafone Spain revenues and subs down
Spain’s football TV war and its low cost promotions have hit Vodafone’s results in the first quarter with a 10.3 per cent fall in its revenues to €1.08 billion. Revenues per service also dropped by 9.3...
View ArticleEutelsat FY18/19: “Challenged operating environment”
Paris-based Eutelsat says it is still suffering from a challenged operating environment which continues to weigh on the revenues of its core businesses. At June 30th 2019, the total number of channels...
View ArticleELIoT project developing Internet over light
Research institute Fraunhofer HHI is heading up a new EU consortium of businesses and academic partners for a three-year project, ELIoT (Enhance Lighting for the Internet of Things), aimed at...
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