Yahsat, the Middle East satellite service provider, took home the highly coveted SatCom Star Award for “Satellite Operator of the Year” on their first submission for the award. Yahsat had won the “Most Innovative Product/Service for Africa” for two consecutive years in 2012 and 2013. Since 2012, Yahsat has provided connectivity to residents in unserved […]
Eutelsat has sold the KabelKiosk platform of digital channels and interactive services for cable and IPTV networks in Germany to M7A Group. M7A Group is an affiliate of M7 Group, one of the fastest growing operators of TV platforms in Europe and is particularly well positioned to ensure KabelKiosk’s continuing development, including the launch of […]
Market research firm Infonetics Research has revised its pay-TV revenue forecasts to reflect what it sees as increasing competition from OTT players. “As a result of increasing competition from over-the-top players and the service providers themselves using broadband video as a lower-priced offering, we believe overall video services ARPU and revenue growth will be constrained […]
Amidst all the doom and gloom, and suggestions that US ‘cord-cutters’ are gaining ground, data proves that multichannel subscription-led TV is as popular as ever. The USA’s top 13 multichannel video providers (representing 94 per cent of the total market) enjoyed total net gains of 260,000 new subs in Q1, and up from 230,000 in […]
In a move set to create a content distribution leader across mobile, video and broadband platforms, with unparalleled video content distribution scale in the US, AT&T and DirecTV have entered into a definitive agreement under which AT&T will acquire DirecTV in a stock-and-cash transaction for $95 per share based on AT&T’s Friday closing price. The […]
Last week’s failure of a $275 million Russian rocket is severely impacting other satellites waiting for launch. London-based Inmarsat was the first satellite operator to admit that its upcoming pair of launches of its Global Xpress craft (Inmarsat-5 fleet) will be delayed. The first Inmarsat-5 satellite (“5-F1”) was successfully launched using Proton in December 2013 […]
Parts of a Russian satellite appear to have crashed into the Australian bush in Queensland) late on May 15th following its lift-off from the Baikonur cosmodrome. The giant Proton rocket itself failed after nine minutes and crashed into an uninhabited part of the countryside downrange from the Kazakhstan launch site. But it would seem the […]
Just before the end of last year, Paris-based Eutelsat wrapped the purchase of the SatMex portfolio of satellite assets, and the deal is now beginning to make real sense. Video business at the end of Q3 (to March 31st) grew 1.5 per cent with SatMex’s help, but Data & Value Added business mushroomed 22.7 per […]
The number of US household subscribing to pay-TV services surged in the first quarter, as the increasingly resilient cable segment moderated its customer loses, according to IHS Technology. US pay-TV subscribers, encompassing cable, satellite and IPTV, rose by
Satellite operator SES has launched a new video distribution neighbourhood for Latin America and a new antenna seeding programme for the NSS-806 satellite located at 47.5 degrees West. The new neighbourhood will provide fresh capacity for expansion of video channel delivery to cable head-ends throughout Latin America, as well as much-needed capability to accommodate the […]