Spanish FTTH connections double
FTTH is growing fast in Spain, now reaching 3.1 million connections at the end of 2015, doubling its number year-on-year, according to the latest figures from the CNMC. Movistar is leading with a...
View ArticleFCC approves new STB rule
As anticipated, the US’s Federal Communications Commission has approved a new rule that would allow consumers to swap cable set-top boxes for less expensive devices in what is seen as a major blow to...
View Article70% US broadband homes like Wi-Fi mobile service
Parks Associates has released research at Mobile World Congress showing that almost 70 per cent of US broadband households express interest in Wi-Fi-based mobile service plans if such plans can save...
View ArticleTech majors form Open Connectivity Foundation
A group of major industry leaders who are invested in the future of the Internet of Things, are unifying as the Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF), an entity whose goal will be to help unify IoT...
View ArticleVivendi ups stake in Telecom Italia
French media group Vivendi has increased its stake in Telecom Italia to 22.8 per cent, a regulatory filing showed, further strengthening its position as the top shareholder in the Italian phone group....
View ArticleSky calls for broadband ‘quick fix’
With UK comms regulator Ofcom set to announce the conclusions to its Digital Communications Review later in the week, UK multi-play operator Sky has renewed its call for the watchdog to implement what...
View ArticleEricsson, Cisco for Dominican Republic’s Aster
Ericsson will transform Aster’s TV proposition and cable network in the Dominican Republic through the deployment of the Ericsson Mediaroom TV Platform and video compression solutions, as well as the...
View ArticleSES supports 5G deployment in Europe
SES announced during the GSMA Mobile World Congress that it is fully committed to the swift deployment of the 5th generation mobile networks called “5G”. As a founding member of the 5G-PPP (Public...
View ArticleOptical network equipment market $12.5bn in 2015
The global optical network equipment market totalled $12.5 billion in 2015, growing 3 per cent from the prior year, reports IHS in its Optical Network Hardware Market Tracker. “After a subdued Q3 2015,...
View ArticleMIPTV reshaping for digital era
Executives at TV programming market MIPTV are reshaping the 2016 event better to reflect the digital era. Laurine Garaude, Director of Reed MIDEM’s Television Division, said that to differentiate the...
View ArticleTelefónica’s 20% cut in FTTH investments
The CNMC’s decision to oblige Telefónica to share its FTTH networks at regulated prices with its competitors Vodafone and Orange across Spain will lead the dominant telco to cut by 20 per cent its FTTH...
View ArticleFrontier plans video roll-out
Describing it as “a key focus going forward” and “an exciting revenue opportunity”, US triple-play operator Frontier Communications has unveiled plans to introduce video service in a number of its...
View ArticleWill Optus users say yes to Premier League?
Optus will soon reveal how Australia’s 1,677,000 English Premier League viewers can tune in (or live stream or catch up) when the next season starts in August. 96 per cent of these EPL followers (aged...
View ArticleOfcom: BT must open up network
Calls by industry competitors for BT’s network subsidiary Openreach to be spun off have been resisted, but UK comms regulator Ofcom has decided it is necessary to overhaul Openreach’s governance and...
View ArticleBritish broadband; a conflict of duty
Duty is an old fashioned word normally reserved for talk of public service but, in fact, it is a very common word in business law and regulation. Company directors have many duties and regulators have...
View ArticleUK business chiefs call for higher broadband ambition
UK business leaders have accused the Government of a ‘poverty of ambition’ regarding UK broadband speeds, and called for a new target for households and business to have access to speeds of 10 gigabits...
View ArticleVivendi in $775m Liberty Media litigation settlement
Media group Vivendi has agreed to pay $775 million to Liberty Media Corp. to end allegations it hid its financial difficulties to inflate its stock ahead of a deal to buy Liberty’s stake in USA...
View ArticleHbbTV 2.0 receiver test suite complete
The HbbTV Association, a global initiative dedicated to providing an open standard for the delivery of broadcast and broadband services through connected TVs and set-top boxes, announced that it has...
View ArticlePay-TV, broadband boost Brazil telco market
The higher adoption of pay-TV and broadband services, provision of multiple-play bundles and value-added services (VAS), and investments to expand fibre-optics networks and mobile broadband networks...
View ArticleTail Target, Cisneros Interactive combine
Tail Target, a provider of DMP (Data Management Platform) and Behavioural Data in Brazil, and Cisneros Interactive, the corporate division of the Cisneros organisation dedicated to investing in digital...
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