CBA describes ACA proposals for 5G as “half-baked”
In its latest filing the C-Band Alliance (CBA) is being ultra-polite in suggesting that a submission to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) by the America’s Communications Association’s...
View ArticleGoGo ‘solid’ Q2
Airline broadband and connectivity supplier GoGo reported revenues for Q2 up 9 per cent to $173 million (€193m), and EBITDA rising to $37.8 million (from $18.9m in the same period last year). “Gogo...
View ArticleViasat going for Version 4 ‘super-satellite’
Broadband-to-the-consumer specialists Viasat of California, which has yet to complete its latest constellation of high-capacity satellites (the ViaSat-3 fleet), is already working on an improved...
View ArticleUS Q2 pay-TV subs down 1.5m
Findings from specialist analysis firm Leichtman Research Group (LRG) indicate that the largest pay-TV providers in the US – representing about 93 per cent of the market – lost about 1,530,000 net...
View ArticleIntelsat, Stratosat expand Central Africa connectivity
Intelsat has announced an agreement with Stratosat Datacom that provides for the delivery of high-speed broadband services to sites across Central Africa by integrating managed connectivity from...
View ArticleCBA gets support from major broadcasters
The C-Band Alliance has won significant extra support for its reallocation of satellite spectrum over the US to help speed 5G’s adoption. The support comes from CBS, Discovery, Fox, Disney, Univision...
View ArticleVirtual Instruments buys Metricly
Virtual Instruments, a specialist in AIOps for hybrid infrastructure management, has completed its acquisition of SaaS-based cloud cost, optimisation and monitoring service provider Metricly. The...
View ArticleSwitzerland: Quickline deploys AirTies’ managed Wi-Fi
AirTies, a supplier of managed in-home Wi-Fi solutions to service providers globally, is providing Quickline with a suite of Smart Wi-Fi solutions to support its residential customers across...
View ArticleSpaceX increases naval fleet
SpaceX has had something of a maritime fleet from its beginnings. Its ‘Of course I still love you’ floating barge has been the landing stage for many of SpaceX flights. The second floating barge, with...
View ArticleMalaysia: Astro, Maxis convergence partnership
In support of the Malaysian Government’s National Fiberisation and Connectivity Plan to drive higher adoption of broadband nationwide, two of the country’s leading brands, Astro and Maxis, have...
View ArticleReport: Broadband usage patterns provide clues to cord-cutting
Subscribers’ broadband usage patterns can be predictors of cord-cutting, according to the Q2 2019 OpenVault Broadband Industry (OVBI) report by OpenVault, a provider of industry analytics and...
View ArticleVirgin Galactic: “Spaceport is ready”
Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic spaceport in New Mexico is “operationally functional”. While, to date, Virgin’s rocket plane test flights have taken place in the Mojave Desert in California, the...
View ArticleCBA maintains pressure
The C-Band Alliance (CBA) made another filing on August 14th to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and again fired a blistering extra salvo at suggestions made by the ACA Connects Coalition...
View ArticleBelgium, Hungary climb Netflix ISP Speed Index
Netflix has released July data from its ISP Speed Index – a monthly update on which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide the best prime time Netflix streaming experience. While not quite as large...
View ArticleThe end for dish farms?
Dish farms are massive arrays of uplink and downlink parabolic dishes in a teleport which communicate with orbiting geostationary satellites. The dishes are huge, typically measuring 7-10 metres...
View ArticleSoftBank writes off £380m in OneWeb
Japanese investment fund SoftBank has written down the value of its significant stake in satellite constellation OneWeb by £380 million (€414.7m). OneWeb has also attracted investment cash from Virgin...
View ArticleStudy: US carriers throttling Netflix “all the time”
US wireless carriers have long said they may slow video traffic on their networks to avoid congestion and bottlenecks. But new research shows the throttling happens pretty much everywhere all the time....
View ArticleViasat planning big for Europe
California-based Viasat and Paris-based Eutelsat were once extremely friendly, and still have good – formal – relations with one another although not quite as strong as a couple of years ago. The pair...
View ArticleAvanti: Share price meltdown
London-based speciality satellite operator Avanti Communications says it wants to cancel its listing of its ordinary shares from the London ‘junior’ exchange Alternative Investment Market. It made the...
View ArticleSky launches Sky Broadband Ultrafast
Sky has announced the launch of its all-new broadband offering, Sky Broadband Ultrafast, which gives UK households access to over 12 times faster speeds than Sky’s standard broadband, with average...
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