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Orange offers all Spanish football on TV for €1

The Spanish football TV price war has entered a new stage with Orange offering La Liga and La Copa del Rey (King’s Cup) for €1 a month from September for the whole 2017-2018 season. With the start of La Liga on August 18, Orange is launching the package Orange TV Fútbol for €1 including all […]

August 8, 2017From David Del Valle in Madrid

Bezos to build new Rocket City

Blue Origin, the rocket-launching business founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, is to build its all-new BE-4 rocket engine at Cummings Research Park, at ‘Rocket City’, Huntsville in Alabama. ‘Rocket City’ is the name given to Huntsville and is already home to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center as well as the US Army’s Aviation & […]

August 8, 2017By Chris Forrester

CNN: “No sale” says AT&T

AT&T’s Entertainment boss John Stankey says that CNN will not be sold once AT&T wraps its purchase of Time-Warner, which owns CNN and the other Turner Broadcasting assets. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, he denied previous reports that CNN would be sold after the $85 million purchase, saying that News was on a par with […]

August 8, 2017By Chris Forrester

UPC Switzerland Q2 growth in subscriptions

UPC increased the number of subscriptions for fixed network and Mobile by 13,000 in the second quarter of 2017. As part of the Autostrada investment programme, the leading provider of communication and entertainment connected a further 12,000 homes in Switzerland and Austria to its powerful fibre optic cable network in the second quarter of 2017. […]

August 8, 2017

SES/EchoStar back ‘pre-flown’ SpaceX

SpaceX technicians at Cape Canaveral are patiently waiting for a scheduled Atlas-5 rocket to launch a military satellite into orbit on September 27. A few days later, weather permitting, SpaceX will take centre stage for a mission for two clients, SES and EchoStar, and their joint-venture SES-11/EchoStar 105 satellite. The satellite will make use of […]

August 8, 2017By Chris Forrester

Samsung trims TV output targets

South Korea’s electronics giant Samsung is reportedly amending its business plan for this year and in the process lowering its manufacturing of TV sets. Large Display Monitor (LDM) is reporting that the expected 48-49 million output by the end of this year, is likely to fall to around 44 million and says that there are […]

August 8, 2017By Chris Forrester

Research: Wireless VR set to strain data networks

Forecasts from hi-tech consulting firm Juniper Research on Virtual Reality suggest that wireless VR headsets (smartphone-based and standalone) data consumption will grow by over 650 per cent over the next four years, from nearly 2,800PB (Petabytes) in 2017 to over 21,000PB in 2021. The new research, Virtual Reality Markets: Hardware, Content & Accessories 2017-2022, found […]

August 8, 2017

UK ranked 31st for broadband speeds

New data, extracted by broadband recommendation site Cable.co.uk from over 63 million broadband speed tests worldwide has revealed that UK speeds are behind 30 other countries, with an average speed of 16.51Mbps. The data was collected across the 12 months up to 10th May 2017 by M-Lab, a partnership between New America’s Open Technology Institute, […]

August 8, 2017

Australia: SVoD subscribers up 30%

Subscription video on demand (SVoD) services delivered over the Internet continue to feed Australians’ appetite for entertainment with subscriptions reaching 3.7 million at the end of June 2017, a year-on-year increase of 30 per cent, according to a new study by emerging technology analyst firm Telsyte. Telsyte’s Australian SVOD Market Study 2017 found almost half […]

August 8, 2017

Virgin Media Ireland ‘real momentum’

Paul Farrell, Vice-President of Commercial at Virgin Media said: “Our revenues in the quarter increased year on year by 2 per cent to reach €102 million, reflecting the acquisition of UTV Ireland, now part of TV3 Group revenues and continued growth in our Mobile and B2B segments.” “We are generating real momentum with our network build […]

August 8, 2017