A filing made by Telefónica to the Spanish media regulator May 4th confirms that its O2 cellular operator in the UK is in formal talks with Liberty Global-backed Virgin Media. As is usual in these cases, the filing stresses there is no certainty of the talks leading to a successful outcome: “The process started between […]
Although raising the possibility of such a move nearly a year ago, Paolo Pescatore, TMT Analyst at PP Foresight, has nevertheless described the possible merger of Liberty Global’s UK multiplay operator Virgin Media with Telefónica’s O2 mobile telco in the UK as “a bolt out of the blue” and an intriguing move that is more […]
Jeff Bezos’s Amazon is studying UK-headquartered satellite business OneWeb which is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US. The Sunday Telegraph reported that Bezos, who has his own Project Kuiper mega-constellation of satellites in the planning and development stage, had his lawyers inspecting OneWeb’s assets. Other due-diligence examinations of OneWeb’s financials include Elon Musk’s […]
Ottawa-based Telesat is still planning to launch a constellation of almost 300 Low Earth orbiting (LEO) satellites despite the recent bankruptcies of OneWeb and LeoSat. However, the ultra-cautious satellites operator (which has fleets of Anik, Telstar and Nimiq craft in orbit) is somewhat slower in getting orders placed for the construction of this new LEO […]
Numerous reports suggest that John Malone’s Liberty Global is in talks with Spanish telco Telefónica about merging its UK multiplay operator Virgin Media with Telefónica’s O2 mobile business. Bloomberg and Reuters are reporting that Telefónica has been weighing options for the mobile business since 2016 when a previous £10.3 billion deal takeover of O2 by […]
The French authorities supervising the Guiana Space Centre in South America says that the work suspension can be gradually relaxed. The site was effectively closed on March 16th with the launch campaigns then being worked on paused. The launch site will first handle a couple of Soyuz flights and one Vega flight. The next commercial […]
Orange Spain has seen its revenues fall by 2.4 per cent YoY to €1.28 billion, due to the price battle with rival operators launching promotions of covergent packages at cheap prices. The company has announced that it will now launch low cost offers through its brands Amena, Symio and República Móvil. The company has over […]
Edge cloud platform Fastly has released analysis of Internet performance within median income brackets in the US which uncovers a clear stratification of download speeds, indicating households with lower incomes experienced lower download speeds compared to households with higher incomes. In the weeks since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, more and more people around […]
Intelsat CEO Steve Spengler has said that the operator is proceeding as the FCC laid out in its 225-page order in regard to the auction of C-band spectrum over the US. However, he also placed something of a question mark on future plans by adding “if we choose to proceed with clearing C-band” and which […]
SiriusXM is expecting to now launch its SiriusXM 8 satellite in “early 2021″, and SiriusXM 7 will now take place later this year. The two satellites were ordered in late 2016. SiriusXM 7 is planned to replace XM 3 (at the time named as ‘Rhythm’) while Sirius XM-8 will replace XM 4 (launched in October […]