Vodafone Spain continues deploying 5G throughout Spain with the addition of six more cities to a total of 21 Spanish municipalities. The six new added cities are Benidorm, Badajoz, Alicante, Murcia, Palma de Mallorca and Valladolid to be added to the existing Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, Málaga, Zaragoza, Bilbao, Vitoria, San Sebastián, Coruña, Vigo, Gijón, […]
High Altitude Platform Services – or stratospheric balloons – are a key part of Google’s broadband-to-the-planet policy. Earlier this year a group of telecoms, aviation and technology companies, including Japan’s SoftBank and Alphabet Loon (the Google spin-off business looking after its balloon strategy) formed the HAPS Alliance. The concept is simple: Float a series of […]
Maxar Technologies, announcing its Q1 results, says it has received a “multi-hundred million dollar contract award to build multiple satellites”. Maxar would not divulge the client but it is widely believed that this is the order for – some if not all – of the replacement C-band craft which will follow on from the FCC […]
German platform operator M7 Deutschland has expanded its Ultra HD (UHD) portfolio. International travel and lifestyle channel Travelxp 4K HDR is now available to network and platform operators in the German-speaking markets for distribution to their subscribers. The world’s first travel channel in UHD/HDR resolution shows reports and features covering holiday destinations in more than […]
Speaking at the launch of a new online event series, Ericsson President and CEO, Börje Ekholm, has highlighted the importance of connectivity during times of crisis and the opportunity there is to rethink the role of networks in the future, and suggested that 5G will be “the greatest open innovation platform ever”. Speaking from his […]
Widespread reports last week suggested that Elon Musk’s SpaceX had conducted an examination of OneWeb’s assets, which is currently in Chapter 11 bankruptcy liquidation. Musk, in a Tweet, has denied those reports, saying: “Not SpaceX” SpaceX’s apparent lack of interest still leaves a group of powerful players with interest in the OneWeb assets including Amazon, […]
Erik Carlson, CEO at US DTH operator Dish Network, says the company is hard at work on its wireless initiatives. “The wireless team continues to make progress on a standalone 5G networks and we continue to pursue closing the Boost assets with T-Mobile,” he commented Carlson reported net income had fallen $73 million from a […]
The top 10 service providers in the United States collectively lost 2.33 million television subscribers in the first quarter of 2020, as reported by the informitv Multiscreen Index. All of the top 10 service providers
Sandvine, a provider of network intelligence solutions, has released a special Covid-19 Global Internet Phenomena Report. This report analyses how traffic on consumer broadband networks has undergone a massive change as consumers are primarily using their fixed-line home networks for their internet access. This edition of the Phenomena Report provides a unique view of internet […]
SES CEO Steve Collar delivered a confident report to analysts at its Q1/2020 results on May 7th, and there was much focus from analysts on whether the FCC’s proposed C-band scheme would go ahead should there be any form of Chapter 11 filing by Intelsat. D-day, as far as the FCC auction of C-band spectrum, […]