Verance brings watermarking to HbbTV
In a move that will significantly expand the reach of interactive television services in markets worldwide, standards-based watermarking provider Verance has revealed plans to bring its Aspect...
View ArticleMusk unveils his BFR
Elon Musk has unveiled his Starship Mk 1 ‘Big Falcon Rocket’ at its South Texas assembly facility. Musk said that test flight will start in a month or two, and be ready to reach orbit within 6 months....
View ArticleFarwerck named KPN CEO
The Supervisory Board of KPN has announced the appointment of Joost Farwerck as the next CEO and Chairman of the Board of Management of KPN, subject to Works Council advice. The news follows the...
View ArticleSpain: MásMóvil to share FTTH with Orange
MásMóvil has announced a new fibre and mobile network agreement with Orange Spain that is says will allow the Company to improve its competitive position and increase its profitability in a relevant...
View ArticleTrendForce: “AI, 5G to revive global semiconductor market”
TrendForce, a global provider of development, insight, and analysis of the technology industry, has published its predictions for the information and communication technology industry for 2020,...
View ArticleAnalyst: 40%+ US homes interested in 5G
Research from analyst firm Parks Associates finds that more than 33 per cent of US broadband households cite some level of familiarity with 5G and over 40 per cent of US broadband households are...
View ArticleOpenreach: 29 new FTTP locations
Openreach, the UK’s digital infrastructure company, has announced 29 towns, cities and boroughs where it will be building new future-proof Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband technology over the...
View ArticleStarHub TV completes fibre migration
Singapore multiplay operator StarHub has confirmed the completion of its cable-to-fibre migration for its TV and broadband services. “Over the past 10 months, StarHub assisted hundreds of thousands of...
View ArticleUS Court: FCC can’t decide State neutrality rules
ISPs could face various state internet regulations after a US court ruled that the federal government cannot block states from passing their own net neutrality laws, though the court did while largely...
View ArticleIndonesia: Witbe partners with Sofrecom
Witbe, the specialist in Quality of Experience monitoring, has announced a new partnership with PT Sofrecom Indonesia a consulting and engineering firm specialising in telecommunications. This...
View ArticleSpace Tug will greatly extend satellite’s life
In the next few days a ‘space tug’ satellite will be launched into orbit from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The satellite, MEV-1 built by Northrop Grumman, will drift for about 3 months in a...
View ArticleEuskaltel seeks new president
Spain’s fifth largest operator Euskaltel, controlled by UK’s Zegona, is seeking a new president following the news that current president Alberto Garcia Erauzkin will not stand for the post in 2020....
View ArticleResearch: Sneaky fees ramp up cable bills
Among all the sneaky, add-on fees that plague American consumers these days, none are more common than those lurking in their cable bills, according to the consumers advice body Consumer Reports (CR)....
View ArticleControversial satellite project tries again
A company registered in the Cayman Islands is again trying to get a satellite launched despite alleged links with backers from China. Global-IP (not to be confused with Global IP Solutions) wants to...
View ArticleStudy: Brits rate Wi-Fi over partner
When at home, 5.1 million people use broadband every single minute, according to UK multiplay operator TalkTalk. There is a new generation of Britons choosing nights in with family, staying in to...
View Article‘Stratollite’ stays on station for a month
A Stratollite is a large balloon (or ‘high altitude platform’) that sits between the Earth and the high-orbiting satellites, and can remain – more or less – in place over its target audience below....
View ArticleOpenreach rural full fibre boost
Engineers at UK digital infrastructure business Openreach are trialling a range of new tools and techniques as they work to upgrade 13 of the UK’s rural communities to faster, more reliable and...
View ArticleCBA still facing tough opposition
According to a statement from Senator John Kennedy, who had objected to the C-Band Alliance being responsible for auctioning off C-band spectrum over the US, he remains committed to a public auction as...
View ArticleViacom, Virgin Media extend content partnership
Multichannel programmer Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) and UK multiplay operator Virgin Media have agreed a new multi-year distribution deal in the UK and Ireland spanning TV channels,...
View ArticleItaly: Mobile phones surpass TVs for 1st time
The total number of connected devices in Italy reached 111.8 million at the end of 2018, up by 0.5 per cent on the previous year, for an average of 4,6 devices per household. According to the annual...
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