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Digi rolls out quad-play services in Portugal

Romanian low-cost operator Digi has entered the Portuguese market with a quad-play offer focused on “flexibility and affordability”. The company offers a range of fixed internet, mobile, TV, and landline services, allowing customers to create their own personalised packages. There is no loyalty contract for mobile services and a maximum of three months for fixed […]

November 5, 2024From Branislav Pekic in Rome

Apple puts $1.5bn into Globalstar

Globalstar is the satellite operator supplying emergency SOS and Text messages for Apple’s iPhones. Apple says it wants to expand the service and will invest $1.1 billion (€1.01bn) and an equity stake to fund more satellites for Globalstar. Currently owners of recent iPhones (14, 15 and 16 versions) can access Globalstar’s satellites for emergency service […]

November 4, 2024By Chris Forrester

Bank: IRIS² will answer Starlink/Kuiper – eventually

One commentator called the award of the IRIS² contract to the SpaceRISE consortium comprising Eutelsat, SES and Hispasat and showing “a sign of life, at last, for Europe’s satellite internet” and adding that Europe’s nations did not want to remain “beholden to Starlink or other networks”. Those sentiments may be true, but hard-headed bankers such […]

November 4, 2024

Another massive satellite constellation, from Logos Space

Logos Space has filed an application with the FCC to build and launch 3,960 satellites to low Earth orbits between 860-925 kms and to operate in Ka, Q/V & E-bands. Logos Space Services Inc. was founded in 2024 by Milo Medin, a former Google VP/Access Services. It is proposing three phases of deployment: The first […]

November 3, 2024

SpaceRISE wins IRIS² contract

The SpaceRISE consortium of satellite operators has won a contract to supply a major constellation of highly secure satellites. The SpaceRISE consortium comprises Eutelsat, SES and Hispasat and other smaller members. The contract will run for 12 years, and the consortium will put around €4 billion into the project, but the overall costs are reported […]

November 1, 2024By Chris Forrester

Data: FTTP coverage reaches 70.5% of UK

Point Topic has provided an update on fixed broadband availability in the UK, tracking the progress between the end of June 2024 and the end of September 2024. The analysis is based on the ThinkPoint broadband availability dataset which includes 1.7 million postcodes. At the end of Q3 2024, the overall FTTP coverage was 23.2 […]

November 1, 2024

Charter shares up on less losses

Charter Communications beat Wall Street estimates with its Q3 results, reporting fewer than expected cord-cutters, sending shares up 16 per cent. The US telco’s budget connection plans – offering high-speed data – have resonated with customers and fuelled significant growth, countering competition from major wireless providers. “We have pricing and packaging that saves customers money […]

November 1, 2024

Starlink wins approval in India

SpaceX’s Starlink has received “in principle” approval by India’s Telecom ministry to begin services in the country. Starlink joins Eutelsat’s OneWeb in having some key approvals granted. However, while OneWeb is focused on working with the Bharti Airtel telco and will not supply broadband to individual consumers, Starlink will be targeting individual users throughout India […]

November 1, 2024

BT expands Carbon Network Dashboard

BT has expanded its Carbon Network Dashboard to give business customers visibility of electricity consumption and carbon emissions at an individual workload and application level. The insight will allow them to optimise their data-centre and network infrastructure to manage emissions as they adopt AI applications at scale. AI can have significantly different impacts on networks […]

November 1, 2024

Survey: Bundling increasingly important to consumers

Households are keen on having a ‘digital detox’ with 40 per cent of consumer respondents concerned about the amount of time their household members are spending online. This is according to the latest EY decoding the digital home study, which surveyed 20,000 consumers on their attitudes toward technology, media and telecoms experienced in the home […]

October 31, 2024