Eutelsat has held a series of ‘road show’ presentations to US-based analysts, and an investment bank report says that while no new financial information emerged, Eutelsat’s management say that they expect the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to make a “favourable” decision regarding the reallocation of some C-band frequencies over the US. Eutelsat itself would only […]
The 2017 revenues of 81 French pay-TV channels dropped by 2 per cent over one year to €2.85 billion, following a 1 per cent decrease the previous year. According to the financial round-up established by French regulatory body CSA, which takes into account the global results from three DTT channels and 78 cable, dish and […]
France’s electronic communications Arcep is publishing has published its scoreboard for the fixed broadband and superfast broadband market (rollouts and subscriptions) in France as of the end of December 2018. This quarter confirms the ongoing progress in FTTH subscription numbers and rollouts. SUBSCRIPTIONS: Annual growth in the number of superfast access subscriptions reaches two million, […]
Basque-Country cable operator Euskaltel made a profit record of €62.8 million in 2018, up 26.6 per cent versus the previous year. Total revenues grew by 11.2 per cent to €691.6 million, with €463.3 million, up 11.3 per cent, stemming from residentials and €189.9 million from enterprises. EBITDA stood at €336.4 million, up 9.6 per cent. […]
Maxar Technologies, which owns the Space Systems/Loral satellite building division, suffered net losses for the year to December 31st of $1.26 billion on group revenues of $2.14 billion. As a consequence, Maxar is laying off some 250 jobs from its 6100 overall workforce. The job losses are spread over Maxar’s Canadian MDA robotic arm business […]
Ottawa-based satellite operator Telesat, the world’s fourth-largest, is moving some assets around in preparation for its planned multi-billion dollar constellation of Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) craft. The news emerged hot on the heels of Telesat’s financial numbers for 2018, which showed a 3 per cent fall in overall revenue to C$903 million (about €584m). However, […]
Broadband Forum has completed and published the second code release of its Open Broadband – Broadband Access Abstraction (OB-BAA) project. Release 2.0 of OB-BAA builds on the functionalities enabled by Releases 1.0 and 1.1, which were demonstrated to wide-acclaim at Broadband World Forum last October. Taking accelerated migration to cloud-based access networks to the next […]
Eutelsat Communications has announced the successful mating of the platform and payload of the KONNECT satellite, conducted at Thales Alenia Space’s facilities in Cannes. This operation is a major step in the construction of the satellite, in preparation for its launch by the end of this year. KONNECT is a next-generation High Throughput satellite offering […]
Arianespace says that it will launch the next batch of SES-backed O3b satellites on March 29th. The company will use the Russian Soyuz rocket for the task, and the mission is to carry four O3b satellites into orbit. The new date is a few days later than originally expected. Arianespace’s CEO Stephane Israel said “Soyuz […]
Panama’s mobile data, fixed broadband, and pay-TV services revenue totalled $1.4 billion in 2018. This is expected to grow to $1.6 billion in 2023, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.8 per cent, according to data and analytics company GlobalData. Cable Onda represented a majority 61.8 per cent of total fixed broadband lines […]