Announcing its first half-yearly results across the new Sky business following the acquisition of Sky Deutschland and Sky Italia, the pay-TV operator is claiming an “excellent” first half with good momentum across the expanded business. Jeremy Darroch, Group Chief Executive, Sky, said the broadcaster had delivered an excellent operational and financial performance in its first […]
For the first time in the company’s history, the DirecTV Group will end 2015 with more pay-TV subscribers in Latin America than in its native US market, according to research from global business intelligence firm Dataxis. As of Q3 2014, 51.7 per cent of
Abu Dhabi is again getting tough on the installation of satellite dishes in the capital city. Current regulations permit up to four dishes on a building or house rooftop. The problem is that many buildings have older – and large – C-band dishes as well as a proliferation of Ku-band dishes for Arabsat, Nilesat and […]
Turksat has placed an order with Hughes’ Jupiter Ka-band for receiver units for its planned High Throughput Satellite (HTS) Ka-band broadband-by-satellite system. Turksat’s 4B craft due for launch early next year, will have Ka-band HTS capacity on board and available across most of Europe and the Middle East. Turksat says it is already talking to […]
The number of pay-TV homes in the Middle East and North Africa will double between 2010 and 2020 to 21.3 million, according to a new 208-page report from Digital TV Research. Turkey will account for 37 per cent of the 2020 total. According to the fourth edition of Digital TV Middle East & North Africa […]
The past few years have not been kind to the world’s ‘Big 3’ satellite operators (Intelsat, SES and Eutelsat) because of severe cutbacks by the US government on satellite spending. The US has trimmed its spend (sequestration), in particular on the amount being spent on commercial satellites. However, President Barrack Obama, in his new budget […]
Some might call the move shrewd, and others might suggest it’s crafty, but the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is asking that its chairman Tom Wheeler rule on whether Dish Network is entitled to claim a $3 billion discount in its final bids last week totalling $13.3 billion in the FCC’s wireless AWS-3 spectrum auction. Any […]
Russia will orbit three new Express-class communication satellites this year. State-owned Russian Satellite Communications Co (RSCC) deputy CEO Yevgeniy Buydinov told news agency TASS that the first, Express-AM7 (to 40 degrees East) would launch in mid-March. The second, Express-AM8 (14 degrees West) a couple of weeks later, and the third Express-AMU1 (to 36 degrees East) […]
Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN), which supplies terrestrial and broadband-by-satellite to Australia, is having to postpone the launch of its latest satellite because Arianespace cannot secure a launch partner for the craft. NBN’s satellite director Matt Dawson has reportedly written to staff saying that the delay will mean the launch date slipping to the end […]
An authoritative report in the UK’s Sunday Telegraph says that Sky is bringing its launch of 4K transmissions forward dramatically to this spring. Sky, says the report, will launch its all-new ‘Project Ethan’ Ultra-HD set-top box to help counter the threat from BT’s exclusive deal to screen European Champions League and Europa League football. The […]