BBC Worldwide – the commercial arm of the Corporation has launched BBC Player in Malaysia, the second country to receive the service following its successful launch in Singapore in 2016. The multi-genre service is available exclusively to subscribers of Telekom Malaysia Berhad’s (TM) IPTV service, HyppTV, through an authenticated SVoD service. Hypp TV viewers will […]
Anevia, a global player in OTT and IPTV software for the delivery of live TV and VoD, has announced the success of their capital increase while maintaining the preferential subscription right launched on February 14th 2017. This operation will allow the company to meet its recapitalisation needs and to carry on with its investment plan. […]
South Africa’s Multichoice/DStv dominates pay-TV in Zimbabwe. But there’s a new player in town in the shape of StarTimes-backed DTH service StarSat. StarTimes/StarSat is now operational in 16 sub-Saharan African countries, and such is its impact that in Nigeria – for example – StarTimes is now occupying the number 1 pay-TV slot. StarTimes says it […]
Dubai-based pay-TV operator is adding 14 live-streaming channels to its OSN Play ‘catch-up’ system. It takes the total to 32 channels and OSN says they will be more before this year is out. The move is another key ‘added value’ service for OSN, increasingly challenged by the MENA region’s OTT players. Moreover, the channels can […]
As the hype starts to build for Game of Thrones season 7, which launches in mid-July, showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss have revealed that the 8th and final season of the HBO fantasy-epic will be the shortest yet. Seasons 1 – 6 of the show consisted of 10 episodes each. Season 7 will consist […]
A Falcon 9 rocket, weather and other glitches permitting, will in the early hours of March 14th, launch an EchoStar satellite into a geostationary transfer orbit en-route to a position serving pay-TV customers in Brazil from 45 degrees West. However, on this occasion the rocket will not be recovered by SpaceX, as the satellite is […]
Ginx esports TV, the competitive video gaming channel, is now available on OSN channel 616 in the MENA region. This is the first 24-hour competitive video gaming channel to showcase the emerging esports phenomenon in the MENA region, which has not been previously available in those territories. Ginx esports TV, backed by Sky and ITV, […]
Akamai Technologies and AT&T has announced the renewal of their global alliance through 2019. Under the agreement, AT&T will continue to offer Akamai’s full product suite, including media delivery and web security services, as part of its broader portfolio of business solutions. The renewed alliance means AT&T business customers in the US and around the […]
BT and Ofcom have reached agreement on a long-term regulatory settlement that will see the telco’s infrastructure unit Openreach become a distinct, legally separate company with its own Board, within the BT Group. The agreement is based upon voluntary commitments submitted by BT that the regulator has said meet its competition concerns. Once the agreement […]