Spain’s pay-TV football war has had a negative impact on all the country’s major telcos. In the third quarter of 2018, as a whole they lost 1.3 per cent of their revenues to €6.08 billion, according to the latest figures from the regulator CNMC. Orange and Vodafone lost market share whereas Movistar had a slight […]
Roch-Olivier Maistre has been approved – by both the Senate and National Assembly’s cultural commissions – as the new head of TV regulatory body CSA. He will replace Olivier Schrameck whose mandate comes to its end. Maistre has already presented his vision on what he believes is the necessary regulatory evolution that must take place […]
Outgoing CEO Gavin Patterson delivered better than expected Q3 results for telco giant BT, commenting “there have been some ups and downs no doubt, but I think the business is more resilient better placed overall”. BT’s revenue was down by one per cent to £5.98 billion (€6.84bn) for the three months to December 31st as […]
Sky News is set to offer its viewers unprecedented access to every aspect of its digital, television, and radio operations during a full day of live ‘behind the scenes’ broadcasting. Sky News Raw, which will be broadcast on its own pop-up channel, will run from 7am-5pm on February 5th – 30 years to the day […]
OneWeb founder has been justifiably Tweeting about his planned launch of the first batch of 6 Low-Earth orbiting (LEO) satellites. However, there may be an unexpected glitch, with experts from Russia’s Soyuz rocket business who are at the Arianespace launch site in Kourou, French Guiana. The Russian team are responsible for the ‘Fregat’ upper stage […]
DAZN, the sport streaming service, has announced that Veronica Diquattro is to lead the business in Spain as well as Italy, as Executive Vice President Revenue, Southern Europe. In her expanded role, Diquattro will work to quickly establish and grow DAZN in Spain with fans, partners and rights holders as one of the world’s most […]
Digi-Capital tracked startups raising over $6 billion across AR/VR/computer vision in 2018, driven by large, late-stage deals in China. A decline in deal volumes (number of deals) during the first three quarters of the year stabilised in Q4, while deal value (dollars invested) returned to a two-year average after large spikes from a few mega-deals […]
Award-winning British dramas Bodyguard, Killing Eve and McMafia have been revealed as the top programmes requested on BBC iPlayer in 2018. The most popular show of the year was Bodyguard, with the first episode becoming BBC iPlayer’s biggest ever programme, with 10.8 million requests across the year. All six episodes of the political thriller appear […]
Broadband Forum has revealed that there are now 42 certified-interoperable Gfast solutions for the 106MHz profile, as a new Gfast Market Update highlights the growing popularity of the technology among operators looking to deploy cost-effective last mile connectivity over existing copper lines. In the Market Update – Service Providers Leveraging Gfast to Complement Fiber Optic […]
London-based satellite operator Inmarsat says it has won a contract from Indonesia’s Garuda airline to provide connectivity for passengers, and using Inmarsat’s GX Aviation products. The service will be fitted to 175 Garuda and Citilink aircraft. Equity analysts at investment bank Exane/BNPP suggest that at an average airtime ARPU of US$80,000 per aircraft, “this contract […]