ND SatCom Ka2Go – Terminal receives Eutelsat type approval
ND SatCom has received type approval for its Ka2Go -Terminal for Eutelsat Broadband Services. Eutelsat is one of the world’s leading satellite operators delivering service into 150 countries via 37...
View ArticleInstitute claims White Space trial success
Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) has successfully deployed mobile broadband communications systems at more than 40 Mbps throughput, and has successfully...
View ArticlePace predicts strong year
Pace used its interims to predict a strong year. The British STB manufacturer said YoY it was producing more profit on lower turnover with revenue down 13.6 per cent to $1,139 billion but gross profit...
View ArticleEntone strikes again with Three River win
Entone, provider of Cloud TV and Connected Home solutions, has announced that Three River Telco has selected its Hybrid CATV solution to power their Pay TV service. Three River Communications has been...
View ArticleFibre’s speed increasing Internet usage
The fibre to the Home (FTTH) Council Americas has released the results of a survey by RVA, LLC, revealing new data on the usage and impact of fibre to the home networks in North America. “After...
View ArticleRussia suffers ABS-2 outage
Russian regional ISP Alliance Telecom, based in Vladivostok, announced that its pay-TV subscribers face problems accessing some TV channels due to an “accident” on the ABS-2 satellite. The list...
View ArticleNokia trials LTE for national TV broadcasting
Nokia Networks is pioneering the technology needed to efficiently use LTE for nationwide TV broadcasting. The company is working with a range of partners in what it says is the world’s first field...
View ArticleTata automates fibre net with ScheduALL
ScheduALL, a provider of Enterprise Resource Management (ERM) software to the transmission industry, has successfully deployed its LINK solution at Tata Communications’ video Master Control Room (MRC)...
View ArticleNetflix pays for AT&T fast lane
Netflix has agreed to pay AT&T to ensure its content is delivered to users smoothly. AT&T, which reached the agreement in May, said: “We’re now beginning to turn up the connections, a process...
View ArticleRDK: The Real Thing?
RDK was ‘invented’ in America and is now expanding internationally with more service providers and vendors signing up. Is it the answer for a standardised approach to interactive and multiscreen...
View ArticleWorld Cup Akamai’s biggest sporting event
The 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil was the largest live sporting event ever delivered in the history of Akamai Technologies, a provider of cloud services. Akamai worked with more than 50 broadcasters to...
View ArticleAustralia: No evidence of cord-cutting
Using the Internet has almost eclipsed watching TV as Australian’s preferred source of entertainment and reading the news online has overtaken reading it in print, according to more than 2300...
View ArticleBT TV growth slows
BT has reported strong demand for fibre broadband lines in Q1, but growth in its pay-TV business has slowed. Group revenues were down 2 per cent on last year to £4.4 billion (€5.5bn), with only the...
View ArticleTW Cable mixed quarter
Time Warner Cable reported in a mixed second quarter with basic video subscriber and high-speed data customer additions beating year-over-year marks, but missing analysts’ consensus estimates. TWC lost...
View ArticleApple readies TV onslaught?
Apple has deployed its own content delivery network in the US and Europe, and negotiated interconnect deals with a significant ISPs, including Comcast, according to a report on Streamingmedia.com....
View ArticleLiberty, Ziggo review on hold
European Union antitrust regulators have paused their review of Liberty Global’s bid for Dutch peer Ziggo while waiting for the US cable company to provide more details of the deal. The European...
View ArticleHBO set to expand online overseas
HBO is planning to expand its online service to countries where it doesn’t see much in the way of sales through traditional cable subscriptions. The premium cable network, which has offered itself via...
View ArticleTelefónica makes €6.7bn GVT bid
In a move that it says underlines its commitment to Brazil, Spanish telco Telefónica and Telefónica Brasil have submitted an offer to Vivendi for the combination of Telefónica Brasil and Global Village...
View ArticleFixed broadband investments rebounding in Brazil
Market research firm Infonetics Research has released excerpts from its newanalysis of the fixed broadband market in Brazil, tracking GPON, FTTH, and cable broadband equipment. “Spending on fixed...
View Articleupc cablecom: Over 180,000 Horizon customers
upc cablecom has reported that the number of television customers dropped slightly in H1: as of June 30th 2014 the Swiss cableco had 1,415,300 active digital basic connections (- 6,400 in the second...
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