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South Africa: Spectrum sharing could benefit rural areas

New forms of spectrum sharing could enable many more people to benefit from broadband connectivity and digital services, according to a report published by Policy Impact Partners (PIP), in association...

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Freenet rejects Sunrise deal despite Liberty offer

Sunrise’ biggest shareholder Freenet continues to oppose its SWF6.3 billion (€5.73bn) offer to buy Liberty Global’s UPC Switzerland business, despite a new offer from the US seller to take part in the...

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Eurofins launches CyberSecurity Framework: Media Edition

Eurofins Digital Testing, a global player in end-to-end quality assurance (QA) and testing services, has announced its Cybersecurity Division will offer media companies a suite of supplemental...

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Greece, Saudi Arabia, Thailand climb Netflix Speed Index

September saw sizable movement in Saudi Arabia on the Netflix ISP Speed Index – a monthly update on which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide the best prime time Netflix streaming experience....

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Kaspersky: 100m attacks on smart devices in H1

Kaspersky honeypots – networks of virtual copies of various internet connected devices and applications – have detected 105 million attacks on IoT devices coming from 276,000 unique IP addresses in the...

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Musk now wants 30,000 extra satellites

30,000 satellites is not a typo Elon Musk, rocket man, Tesla man, Hyperloop man, and a highly enthusiastic backer of getting mankind onto Mars, now says that his original plan for his ‘Starlink’...

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C-Band Alliance wins major new support

An influential US lobbying group, Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) has completely reversed its previous objections to the C-Band Alliance’s proposed scheme to free up at least 200 MHz of satellite...

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Senator urges FCC to hold C-band auction

Sami Kassab, a satellite analyst at investment bank Exane/BNPP, issued useful summary of the October 17th US Senate hearing on matters concerning the Federal Communications Commission and in particular...

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Ireland’s Eir launches on Apple TV

Eir, the Irish telco, has launched a new TV service with Apple TV. The service provides customers with over 100 channels in HD, and access to thousands of apps including RTE Player, Now TV, Netflix,...

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Africa’s Vast WiFi system closing

The business behind Vast Networks, Africa’s largest WiFi network, is liquidating the company. It will cease trading this week. Vast was backed by pay-TV operator MultiChoice (owning 49 per cent) and...

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Swarm gets FCC approval

Swarm Technologies, which in December 2018 was condemned by the FCC for ‘illegally’ launching 4 mini-satellites without approval and fined $900,000 as punishment, is now legal. The FCC has now approved...

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CBA: “FCC auction could take 13 years”

The C-Band Alliance (CBA) used a letter to Senator John Kennedy, the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and to Christopher Coons, a ranking member of the same committee. The letter was...

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Akamai milestone for web traffic delivered

Akamai, the intelligent edge platform for securing and delivering digital experiences, has revealed that traffic on its global content delivery network (CDN) reached a new peak last week of 106 Tbps...

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Spain: FTTH nears 10m

FTTH grew by 112,000 lines in Spain in August totalling 9.6 million, according to the CNMC. In a year FTTH has experienced an increase of 1.8 million, with DSL losing 1.2 million by contrast. FTTH...

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Report: Lack of broadband competition keeping millions offline

Research published by the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI), an initiative of the Web Foundation, finds that consolidated broadband markets — for example those with a single broadband provider —...

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SES, Thales deliver record inflight connectivity speeds

SES and Thales have taken inflight connectivity to a new level, successfully demonstrating uninterrupted access to high-throughput broadband applications for the first time over a platform supporting...

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Eutelsat enthusiastic over C-band 300 MHz plan

Eutelsat, in a formal filing to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), says that it is in favour of the C-Band Alliance – eventually – freeing up 300 MHz of spectrum over the US for 5G’s usage....

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Maxar, Thales-Alenia now rival bidders

Reportedly Maxar Technologies and Thales-Alenia Space have scrubbed their joint-venture plan to bid for Ottawa-based Telesat’s mega-constellation satellite order. The pair were competing against Airbus...

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FCC: ‘C-band decision very soon’

The FCC is still on track for a decision on C-band spectrum this autumn, FCC Commissioner Michael O’Rielly said at Mobile World Congress Americas in Los Angeles on October 23rd. He spoke of various...

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Eutelsat launches IoT connectivity service via satellite

Eutelsat Communications has announced the launch of what is describes as “a pioneering satellite-based IoT connectivity service”: Eutelsat IoT FIRST. Having recently unveiled its ELO constellation of...

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