Over a third of the Dutch households that are triple play customers at Ziggo (35 per cent) and KPN (34 per cent) spent more than €70 per month on their package in the second quarter, according to Telecompaper’s Triple Play Insights 2018 Q2 report. Ziggo was the most dominant presence on the premium triple play […]
The Internet Society, a global non-profit organisation dedicated to the open development, evolution and use of the Internet, is partnering with Facebook to develop Internet Exchange Points (IXP) throughout Africa. An Internet Exchange Point is where multiple local and international networks, ISPs and content providers interconnect their networks together to efficiently exchange Internet traffic through […]
A major report from Paris-based Euroconsult says that the satellite industry will see revenues shift more towards telco and data-based traffic and revenues, and away from video and DTH income. Based on the latest market projections, wholesale capacity revenues from telecom applications will surpass video applications by 2021. The growth is largely supported by the […]
Football fans have reason to cheer – BBC Research & Development (R&D) has managed to solve the problem of delays when people watch live Internet streams rather than a TV broadcast. In a new prototype being demonstrated at the IBC in Amsterdam, the team will show how the gap between an Internet-delivered live stream and […]
Commercials for Vodafone broadband have been banned for misleading customers over speeds and potential reductions intheir bills. The TV and radio ads, featuring Hollywood actor Martin Freeman, stated: “Vodafone guarantee your home broadband speeds or money off until it’s fixed.” But the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) upheld complaints – including one emanating from rival BT […]
Netflix has released August data from its ISP Speed Index, its monthly update on which ISPs provide the best primetime Netflix streaming experience. The largest speed gain on the index this month was experienced by Flow in Jamaica. Speeds at Flow increased by 0.74 Megabits per second (Mbps), bringing its average monthly speed to 2.37 […]
Broadband minnow Zen has been voted number one for customer service by MoneySavingExpert.com users in its latest best provider poll – but TalkTalk languishes at the bottom despite an improvement on last time. The biannual broadband customer service poll saw over 7,000 people rate their provider ‘great’, ‘OK’ or ‘poor’, based on performance over the […]
Newly launched video streaming platform DAZN has contacted telecom operator TIM with a request to provide infrastructure support to meet increased demand by subscribers. This follows reception problems reported last weekend by many viewers during the live broadcast of the Serie A match between Lazio and Napoli. According to daily Corriere della Sera, TIM will […]
Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) Chairman and CEO Charles Rivkin has urged the dominant Internet platforms to take action to confront a growing list of online problems, including election meddling, hate speech, and piracy. Delivering a keynote address, A Declaration for Accountability in Cyberspace, at the Tech Policy Institute’s (TPI) Aspen Forum – his […]
Research from independent price comparison and switching service Switcher.ie shows that three in five consumers (60 per cent) are satisfied with their home broadband speeds, a significant increase on last year (44 per cent). Despite this, and the ongoing rollout of faster speeds to more areas of the country, over three-quarters of consumers (78 per […]