YouTube has revealed that it will be launching a new music streaming service soon next week, branded simply as ‘YouTube Music’. In a blog post, the Google-owned company said: “… more than 1 billion music fans come to YouTube each month to be part of music culture and discover new music. It’s also where over […]
Deutsche Telekom has underlined its leading role in broadband build-out in Germany. Deutsche Telekom invests more than all of its competitors put together, said CEO Tim Höttges at this year’s shareholders’ meeting, which was held in Bonn – where the company has its headquarters – for the first time in the company’s history. €5.4 billion […]
STV (Scottish Television) has confirmed it will close its struggling second channel STV2, as it seeks to move more content online. The closure will result in 59 job losses. STV’s new chief executive, Simon Pitts, who took the reins from Rob Woodward in January 2018, set out plans to drive viewers to STV Player, with […]
Telesat of Canada is trialling its first Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) satellite ahead of launching a full global constellation starting in 2019. It has secured In Flight Entertainment (IFE) business Global Eagle Entertainment (GEE) to collaborate with its LEO programme. The pair will work to optimise Telesat’s LEO constellation to serve growing broadband demands coming […]
UK communications regulator Ofcom has published its annual report on pricing trends for residential phone, broadband and TV services in the UK. It research has found that: Most consumers are getting value from their phone and broadband services. Data use over both home-broadband and mobile connections is growing by around 45 per cent a year. […]
RTL Group, the German-based TV entertainment company, has reported modest Q1 growth in the face of currency headwinds, highlighting the challenge they face to streamline and modernise. Reported Group revenue was stable at €1,416 million (up from €1,405 million in Q1 2017), as higher revenue contributions from Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland and RTL Nederland were partly […]
Cisco has reported Q3 results for the period ended April 28th 2018. The US tech giant reported third quarter revenue of $12.5 billion (€10.6bn), net income on a generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) basis, and non-GAAP net income of $3.2 billion. “We are executing well against our strategy, our innovation pipeline has never been stronger, and […]
Altice N.V. post-split of Altice USA (to be renamed ‘Altice Europe’) has reported that it is delivering on its plan to improve operational performance, with its Q1 2018 showing the best subscriber trends the group has ever reported. Highlights include: France total fixed B2C customer base grew for the first time since Altice took control […]
e-tv’s parent company (eMedia Investments) says it will launch a new 24-hour news channel, OpenNews, which will be carried on South Africa’s DTT service provided by Platco Digital. eMedia already has a news channel on DStv’s pay-TV service. OpenNews will initially be in Standard Definition but plans to switch to digital later this year. The […]
Journalists were able to test SAS’s new Ka-band In Flight Entertainment and connectivity system from Copenhagen airport earlier this week. The signals come from the Eutelsat/ViaSat jointly operated Ka-Sat satellite. SAS says 7 of its aircraft are now equipped with ViaSat’s reception/transmission equipment, and its 82 spotbeams from Ka-Sat which cover Europe and the Nordic […]