Amazon has entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Amazon will acquire eero. eero’s home mesh WiFi systems blanket every room of a customer’s home in reliable WiFi. “We are incredibly impressed with the eero team and how quickly they invented a WiFi solution that makes connected devices just work,” said Dave Limp, SVP […]
Plume, the Silicon Valley based creator of self-optimising Adaptive WiFi, has announced its availability in the UK through an invitation-only offering with TalkTalk. The Plume membership offered specifically for TalkTalk customers includes Adaptive WiFi, HomePass guest access, parental controls, and the Plume app for just £9 per month. This monthly fee includes a two-SuperPod starter […]
Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which plans to girdle the planet with at least 4425 broadband-delivering ‘Starlink’ satellites in a mega-constellation, has now followed up by asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for blanket approval for up to 1 million Earth stations to receive and transmit signals. The filing stresses that granting the application is in the […]
Broadband-by-satellite provider ViaSat (of California) turned in some impressive Q3 numbers on February 7th, with CEO Mark Dankberg saying that a new satellite in the company’s ViaSat-3 model had been ordered from Boeing, and would likely launch in early 2021. Dankberg explained that the progress on the first two ViaSat-3 satellites, “and now having executed […]
The fibre network of French Internet Service Provider (ISP) ZEOP has been upgraded by Iskratel, a European provider of broadband access solutions – enabling the operator to deliver enhanced, triple-play services to its customers and gain additional revenue. Iskratel’s GPON FTTH Home Gateway Innbox G68 solution was installed across ZEOP’s network on Réunion Island, providing […]
UK telecom investor Zegona Communications has approved a capital enlargement of €114 million with the intention to purchase more shares in Spanish cable operator Euskaltel on the open market. With the capital and a further €33 million in debt Zegona, who already has a 15 per cent stake, plans to acquire an additional 12.5 per cent […]
The C-band Alliance (CBA) of Intelsat, SES, Eutelsat and Telesat has written to the FCC stating that several recent submissions to the FCC are wrong in their contentions that a potential “market-based approach” (where the CBA sells off its C-band spectrum itself) violates the USA’s Communications Act and is “inconsistent with precedent”. Most objectors, including […]
Last June hedge fund Kerrisdale Capital solidly backed Intelsat and SES over the C-Band Alliance’s likely significant gains from the sale of their C-Band spectrum over the US. In January it emerged that Kerrisdale had largely cashed in on its profits from its stake in Intelsat selling 7.79 million of its 8.48 million shares, and […]
Orange Spain will not buy – partly or wholly – the Basque-country based telco Euskaltel. In a statement to Bloomberg, the company said that “it rules out any transaction with Euskaltel”. With the announcement, Orange Spain puts an end to speculation over the last weeks about its intention of buyinging into Euskaltel to strengthen and […]
Nokia and German service provider M-net are testing ‘probabilistic constellation shaping’ using Nokia’s Photonic Service Engine 3 (PSE-3) as part of the preparation for rolling out a new wave division multiplexing (WDM) network for the southern German state of Bavaria. PSE-3 uses probabilistic constellation shaping (PCS), an advanced signal processing technique pioneered by Bell Labs. […]