Astra Connect broadband for UK ‘final 5%’
SES Broadband Services (SBBS) announced its Astra Connect solution will be used as part of a pilot program to connect homes and businesses in the UK which cannot benefit from a Fibre-to-the-Cabinet...
View ArticleEuropean 4K readiness: Switzerland, Netherlands, Sweden ahead
Akamai Technologies, a provider of cloud services for delivering, optimising and securing online content and business applications, has released its First Quarter, 2014 State of the Internet Report....
View ArticleLiberty names Ziggo CEO and IPO price
Liberty Global has lined up a new CEO for Ziggo, once its $13.7 billion acquisition of the Dutch cable TV company is completed. Liberty has named Baptiest Coopmans as CEO, subject to its Ziggo offer...
View ArticleBT TV complaints now 5x average
Ofcom has published the volumes of complaints made against the major providers of telecoms and pay-TV services between January and March 2014. This is Ofcom’s thirteenth quarterly report, which aims to...
View ArticleInCoax joins MoCA
Networking equipment provider, InCoax Networks has joined MoCA as a Contributor member. InCoax Networks uses the free capacity in existing in-building coaxial cables to enable high-speed Internet...
View ArticleViaSat and Eutelsat link Ka-band networks
ViaSat and Eutelsat have entered into a pioneering agreement that will enable service access and roaming on each other’s high-capacity satellite networks (Ka-Sat for Eutelsat and ViaSat-1 for ViaSat)....
View Articleupc cablecom buys Geneva fibre network
upc cablecom has taken over the Télé-Pregny-Chambésy glass fibre optic cable network. Up until now, the municipality of Pregny-Chambésy together with three private shareholders has held a 75 per cent...
View ArticleUS offer for Grupo Clarín TV
Argentine media giant Grupo Clarín is considering an offer to sell its TyC and an additional six cable TV channels to a US investor for $31.5 million, as part of its plans to adjust to new legislation...
View ArticleOrange drops Bouygues bid
Orange has dropped its ambition to acquire smaller rival Bouygues Telecom’s SFR aftera failing to strike an acceptable deal. “Orange has examined the possibilities of participating in an operation that...
View ArticleWorld Cup ‘Group of Death’ drives online video traffic
Akamai has put together figures on World Cup streaming, revealing the highest average peak traffic occurred during the Germany v USA and Ghana v Portugal matches last week – when it reached 6.8t Tbps....
View ArticleEC approves Vodafone/ONO deal
The European Commission has cleared the proposed €7.2 billion acquisition of Spanish quad-play operator ONO by the Vodafone Group under the EU Merger Regulation. The Commission concluded that the...
View ArticleGlobal IPTV subs surpass 100m
Global IPTV subscriptions have topped the 100 million mark for the first time, according to Point Topic. The market grew by 4.8 per cent in the first quarter of 2014, which matched the growth rate...
View ArticlePay-TV subscriber growth continues
The growth of pay television continues, as providers embrace multiscreen services to offer subscribers more viewing options, according to the July 2014 Multiscreen Index published by informitv. The...
View ArticleNo ads on Russian cable TV?
Russia’s parliament has called for a complete ban on advertising on the country’s cable TV channels. The move is reportedly designed to favour Russia’s own publicly-funded channels. The Russian State,...
View ArticleNZ ISP provides Netflix US via VPN
Slingshot, a local ISP in New Zealand, has added a new “global mode” to its Internet plans that allows its customers to access video services such as Netflix or Hulu. Slingshot’s global mode is...
View ArticleCarlos Slim to slim down in Mexico
Billionaire media mogul Carlos Slim is to sell down his assets in Mexico, including those of America Movil, in order to bring the total market share to below 50 per cent. Slim risked further incurring...
View ArticleAlcatel-Lucent record speed on copper
Bell Labs, the research arm of telecoms technology provider Alcatel-Lucent, has set a new broadband speed record of 10 Gbps using traditional copper telephone lines and a prototype technology that...
View ArticleSurvey: Net neutrality is dead
Flash Networks, specialists in mobile Internet optimisation and monetisation, has published a study revealing that 69 per cent of operators and, 74 per cent of subscribers think that mobile operators...
View Article150 channels in Russia could close
Russia has gone ahead and its Federation Council has approved a highly-controversial law that bans advertising on most cable and satellite channels. BBC Monitoring is reporting July 10th that President...
View ArticleBrazil v Germany sees 20x increase in mobile data volume
During the World Cup semi-final match between Brazil and Germany on July 8th, there was a 20-fold increase in data volume from a single sports network (ESPN) over the mobile network. However, when the...
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