A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch Indonesia’s PSN 6 communications satellite into orbit on February 21st from Cape Canaveral. PSN 6 (for PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara) was built by Space Systems/Loral (now part of Maxar technology) and will be placed at 146 degrees East. The satellite carries 38 C-band and 18 Ku-band high-throughput transponders […]
DOCOMO has been ranked the world’s leading mobile operator in terms of applications for candidate standard-essential patents (SEPs) for the 5G mobile communication standard, and also number one in terms of 5G technical proposals (contributions). The rankings are based on a study conducted by Cyber Creative Institute, a Japanese firm that researches information and communication […]
Red Bee Media has opened a new R&D facility located in its hub in Broadcast Centre, west London. Red Lab, London houses a private cloud platform for remote testing, as well as meeting and collaboration space for broadcast and network engineers and solution architects – an approach to R&D that led to the creation of […]
Stingray Group, a music, media, and technology company, has announced the expansion of its distribution deal with TELUS. The agreement brings five new music television channels, Stingray Festival 4K, Stingray Now 4K, Stingray Hits!, PalmarèsADISQ par Stingray, and Stingray Classica to Optik TV subscribers in Alberta, British Columbia, and Quebec. “Stingray is committed to offering […]
OpenVault, a global provider of industry analytics and technology solutions for broadband operators, has announced a major step forward in its Latin American market expansion with the signing of a long-term agreement with Ecuador’s largest cable operator, Grupo TVCable. Under the agreement, Grupo TVCable will roll out OpenVault’s cloud-based solutions to its more than 35 […]
German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 is revamping its management structure, with its Entertainment arm to be split off as a standalone company under co-CEOs Wolfgang Link and Michaela Tod, currently president of soon-to-be-Singapore-based vacuum cleaner outfit Dyson’s Greater China region. Sales and marketing chief Sabina Eckhardt is meanwhile to leave the company by mutual consent, with her […]
Despite an abundance of rumours to the contrary, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL) is insisting it is not in discussions with either Sony or Comcast with regards selling a significant stake in ZEEL. The reports were initially aired on business news channel CNBC-TV18 A formal statement from ZEEL, issued to the Bombay Stock Exchange on […]
Spain’s Telefónica has requested that the 0.9 per cent telco tax it pays to finance public TV group RTVE is eliminated to put an end to a “discrimination” against telco companies. According to Telefónica, Spanish telcos have paid €1.2 billion to RTVE in taxes over the last 10 years. Alvaro Rico, fiscal advisor at Telefónica […]
Affordable worldwide Internet coverage is one step closer today, after £18 million (€20.55m) of UK Space Agency funding was awarded to OneWeb through the European Space Agency, to aid the development of its next generation satellite constellation. A global communications network in space, the system will be comprised of approximately 650 satellites initially and scale […]