Customer affinity toward traditional communications and media companies is closing the gap with that for big tech and digital companies, according to a new report from professional services company Accenture. For its 2019 Global Keep Me Index: Are you a keeper? report Accenture, surveyed nearly 24,000 consumers in 18 countries on their likeliness to stay […]
MediaKind, a global player in media technology solutions and innovation, has shared its 2020 industry predictions courtesy of Principal Technologist Tony Jones and VP Portfolio Development Meir Lehrer. Jones’ predictions are: 1) The effect of emerging codecs in 2020 The media landscape in 2020 is fascinating. There has never been a time when so many […]
Household broadband consumption in the US is anticipated to reach as much as 330GB per subscriber during the current holiday season, according to OpenVault, a provider of technology solutions and industry analytics for broadband operators. Using historical trends catalogued over more than a half-decade of accelerating broadband growth, OpenVault calculates that consumption will increase by […]
On December 10th in Washington DC the chairman of the FCC, Ajit Pai, was due to deliver a speech at the Federal Communications Bar Association (FCBA) and observers were expecting some comments and his latest thoughts on C-Band, and the planned auction of satellite spectrum. Today, December 11th, the US Senate’s Committee on Commerce will […]
Analyst Roger Rusch, CEO at TelAstra, says in a report that the commercial satellite industry is facing 6 different and worrying crises. Rusch suggests that terrestrial growth from fibre and wireless is threatening future growth of the satellite sector, and this is his Crises Number 1. “The wireless and fibre providers are more agile at […]
Would-be mega constellation operator OneWeb is to launch its first major batch of satellites at the end of January. OneWeb will use a Russian Soyuz-2.1 rocket, but managed by Arianespace, to take 34 of its satellites into space from the cosmodrome at Baikonur in Kazakhstan on January 30th subject to last minute weather problems. Russian […]
As 2019 draws to a close, Juniper Research has created its list of the top 10 technology predictions for 2020. The Top 10 5G – Last-mile fibre rollouts to be replaced by 5G connectivity. OTT TV – Advertising stakeholders to develop functional attribution Ecosystem. Mobility as a Service – Open data in transportation to drive […]
With broadband a political priority ahead of a Christmas General Election, the need for better connectivity could not be clearer, but research from Zen Internet highlights the fears of the nation this festive digital season. Surveying more than 2,000 consumers across Britain Zen found that one in four (28 per cent) households is concerned that […]
BearingPoint//Beyond has announced that Altibox, a Norwegian broadband provider, is using its Infonova digital business platform to connect its growing business partner ecosystem of regional service providers across Norway and Denmark and broaden customer access to its expanding range of services including full fibre broadband, TV and media. Using the BearingPoint//Beyond digital business platform, Altibox […]
Australia’s Seven Network has revealed plans to team up with multiplay telco Optus to develop a channel featuring Seven’s coverage of Tokyo 2020 in 4K Ultra HD, which will be exclusively available to Optus 5G Home customers via IPTV service Fetch. The intention is for Seven’s coverage of the Olympics to be available in 4K […]