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...
View ArticleFreenet 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...
View ArticleEurofins 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...
View ArticleGreece, 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....
View ArticleKaspersky: 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...
View ArticleMusk 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’...
View ArticleC-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...
View ArticleSenator 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...
View ArticleIreland’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,...
View ArticleAfrica’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...
View ArticleSwarm 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...
View ArticleCBA: “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...
View ArticleAkamai 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...
View ArticleSpain: 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...
View ArticleReport: 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 —...
View ArticleSES, 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...
View ArticleEutelsat 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....
View ArticleMaxar, 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...
View ArticleFCC: ‘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...
View ArticleEutelsat 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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