Eutelsat expands in Asia
Eutelsat Communications has unveiled its plans at the CommunicAsia exhibition in Singapore for significantly scaling up its presence in the Asia-Pacific region. The company is embarking on a new triple...
View ArticleProton rocket to resume in September
On May 16 a Proton rocket suffered a catastrophic loss of its cargo, an expensive ($217 million) communications satellite. The disaster meant that all Proton flights were suspended while a Failure...
View ArticleUK names rural broadband winner
UK Government has announced the successful bids for its £10 million (€12.5m) innovation fund to explore ways to take superfast broadband to the most remote and hardest to reach places in the UK. Eight...
View ArticleDutch digital connections up to 6.72m
The number of digital TV connections in the Netherlands grew by 0.9 per cent during the first quarter of this year to 6.72 million on 31 March, according to Telecompaper. The total TV connections grew...
View ArticleSurvey: Most Americans oppose Comcast/TWC merger
Most consumers in the United States oppose the proposed merger of the country’s biggest cable TV and broadband Internet providers, according to a new survey by the Consumer Reports National Research...
View ArticleSenate’s Goodlatte: ‘Deregulated Internet flourishes’
The Honourable Bob Goodlatte, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has prefaced the Senate hearing on Net Neutrality by expressing his scepticism of claims that additional regulation in the...
View ArticleNCTA disputes STB power claims
US cable industry trade body the National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA) has reacted to a report in the LA Times which suggested that cable TV boxes have become second-biggest energy...
View ArticleSFR, Numericable tie-up confirmed
Vivendi, Altice and Numericable have confirmed that they have signed the definitive agreement regarding a combination between mobile telco SFR and cable MSO Numericable following what is described as...
View ArticleIDATE: Telecoms recovering slowly
IDATE, partner analyst at the LTE World Summit 2014, has published the findings of its World telecom services watch. After the trough of 2009 and hesitant growth in 2010, the global market has been...
View ArticleiiNet: ‘File sharing multi-headed Hydra’
Steve Dalby, Chief Regulatory Officer at Australian ISP iiNet, has reawakened the anti-piracy debate by questioning the proposed blocking of file-sharing sites, suggesting that the practice is a...
View ArticleConsumer group: ‘AT&T, DirecTV deal anti-competitive’
US public interest group Public Knowledge is calling on Congress to be vigilant as multiple mergers come before it in the coming months. Public Knowledge senior staff attorney John Bergmayer is...
View ArticleAT&T: DirecTV deal enhances competition
Randall Stephenson, Chairman, CEO, and President of AT&T, has told the United States House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and...
View Article1bn digital TV homes by year-end
There will be more than 1 billion digital TV households across 138 countries by end-2014, up by 130 million on 2013 and by 461 million from the 590 million recorded in 2010, according to a new report...
View Article34% US broadband households have Smart TV
According to new research from Parks Associates, Smart TV adoption increased by 31 per cent in one year so that now over one-third of US broadband households have a Smart TV. Parks Associates analysts...
View ArticleFuture download demand to outstrip upload by 8:1
A study published into future trends in internet usage shows consumer demand for download speeds far outstripping upload requirements by 2020. The research, undertaken by the Technical University of...
View ArticleSupreme Court outlaws Aereo
The US Supreme Court has ruled that Aereo has to pay broadcasters when it takes television programmes from the airwaves and allows subscribers to watch them on smartphones and other portable connected...
View ArticleAustralia: Imagine routers for ABC
Imagine Communications, a provider of media software and video infrastructure solutions, has won a major contract to replace all video routers in the television service of the Australian Broadcast...
View ArticleWorld Cup breaking traffic records
With the 2014 World Cup nearing the end of its group stage, increased connection speeds and the exponential growth of connected device ownership are key factors in driving record network traffic and...
View ArticleDirecTV tells Congress: “We must adapt”
DirecTV’s Chairman and CEO Michael White told a Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing that the evolution of video had changed the very structure of its business. “Much has changed recently, particularly...
View ArticleBBC Ultra-HD broadcast for Commonwealth Games
In what it says could be a watershed moment in the history of broadcasting, BBC Research and Development is to broadcast certain elements of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games live in Ultra-High...
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