Global satellite company Intelsat took advantage of a favourable response from bankers to its proposed $1 billion of fresh borrowing, and increased the sum to $1.25 billion. The borrowing is made against Intelsat’s Senior Secured Notes, priced at 8 per cent, due in 2024. The news was received favourably by debt ratings agency Moody’s, which […]
Ofcom has put forward strict new rules to improve BT’s performance in installing high-speed business lines and significantly reduce the wholesale prices BT charges for these lines. The plans are part of Ofcom’s Business Connectivity Market Review, published today. The new rules will be finalised at the end of April, subject to consideration by the […]
Eighty-one per cent of all US smartphone users now stream video on their devices, according to data from The NPD Group’s Connected Intelligence Smartphone and Tablet Usage Report. This usage is being driven primarily by users who are 25 and younger, who spend twice as much time watching video content on YouTube and Netflix mobile […]
Akamai Technologies, a global player in content delivery network (CDN) services, has released its Fourth Quarter, 2015 State of the Internet Report. Based on data gathered from the Akamai Intelligent Platform, the report provides insight into key global statistics such as connection speeds, broadband adoption metrics, notable Internet disruptions, IPv4 exhaustion and IPv6 implementation. “This […]
Recognising consumers’ desire to view content in alternative ways to traditional TV, digital experience specialist Adobe has revealed an end-to-end offering with Adobe Primetime that extends the solution to help drive audience acquisition, engagement and monetisation across every screen and platform. The new offering delivers more personalised TV and ad experiences directly to consumers via […]
Despite two legal attempts in Cairo on March 21st to reverse previous rulings that Al-Jazeera’s Egyptian channel (Al-Jazeera Misr) be prohibited in Egypt, the applications failed. Al-Jazeera’s head office had applied to annul the Egyptian Supreme court’s earlier decision to forbid transmission of the channel on the Nilesat satellite. The channel was ordered to close […]
Stepping up its efforts to bring competition to the cable and pay-TV set-top box market in the US, the Consumer Video Choice Coalition (CVCC) – comprised of a diverse group of organisations and companies that believe consumers would benefit from a competitive ecosystem of third-party devices and services that can be used across multichannel video […]
Mark Linsey is the new Director of BBC Studios. Linsey has been Acting Director of BBC Television since October 2015 and spent more than 20 years working in TV production before joining the BBC, including roles at Central, LWT, Hat Trick Productions and Tiger Aspect. Linsey was appointed as the BBC’s Controller, Entertainment Commissioning in […]
Reflecting the increased complexity of its enlarged business, Sky has confirmed that Andrew Griffith, currently Group Chief Financial Officer and MD, Commercial Businesses, will expand his responsibilities to become Group Chief Operating Officer in addition to his existing role. Griffith has been Sky’s CFO and an Executive Director of Sky plc since April 2008 and […]
The British government is issuing a ‘Request for Proposals’ (RFP) to potentially interested parties to build a UK ‘Spaceport’ similar to those in the Mojave Desert and used by Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic operation. The giant French aerospace operation Airbus Safran says it will be taking part in the bidding process. According to an article […]