Business hours broadband consumption has risen by more than 41 per cent and overall usage in March is on track to outpace the previous monthly record as the country adjusts to life with the Covid-19 coronavirus, according to OpenVault, a provider of technology solutions and industry analytics for broadband operators. One week after the CDC […]
A report from analysts MoffettNathanson (MN) admits that while conventional wisdom would have it that telecom and cable should be defensive in a recession but generally speaking, those impacts will be far milder for most telecom and cable operators than for most companies. Nevertheless, there have been some truly dramatic falls in share prices since […]
Virgin Media and TalkTalk have secured a deal with NBCUniversal, which, akin to the Sky deal announced earlier this week, will allow its customers to watch some of the studio’s new releases on the same day they hit cinemas. Virgin Media and TalkTalk customers will be able to watch DreamWorks Animation’s newest film Trolls World […]
Denmark’s fixed broadband penetration of the population will reach 39 per cent by 2024, supported by its National Broadband Strategy. The country is close to delivering its targets, with fixed broadband coverage approaching 100 per cent of households – up from 92 per cent in 2018, says GlobalData, a data and analytics company. Sergej Gavrilov, […]
The European Space Agency has developed a new compression system, initially designed to be used on so-called ‘smart’ space and satellite missions and telemetry to and from the craft. The ESA says its spacecraft operations engineer David Evans has invented a family of telemetry compression methods, one of which is about to turned into a […]
Argentina’s ARSAT is reviving plans to build and launch a third satellite. According to a report in trade publication Space News the company, which already operates a pair of geostationary satellites, will order a third craft with Ka-band capacity and which will launch in 2023. Argentina-owned Empresa Argentina de Soluciones Satelitales Sociedad Anónima (ARSAT) also […]
UK multiplay operator Virgin Media has switched on what it says is the Midlands’ fastest gigabit home broadband service in the city of Birmingham, offering connectivity more than 20 times faster than the current local average. In what is seen as the UK’s largest ever gigabit broadband switch-on, more than a million homes across the […]
US telco DISH is providing 20 MHz of AWS-4 (Band 66) and all of its 700 MHz spectrum to AT&T at no cost for 60 days. Last week, DISH began lending its complete 600 MHz portfolio of spectrum to T-Mobile. With these two agreements, DISH has activated most of its spectrum portfolio to enhance national […]
RDK Management has disclosed details about the continued adoption of RDK open source software used to power customer-premise equipment (CPE) from broadband and video service providers worldwide. “RDK now powers more than 60 million devices deployed by service providers around the world that require flexibility and control over their CPE software and diagnostics data,” said […]
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully placed another 60 of the company’s Starlink satellites into orbit on March 18th from the Kennedy Space Centre. Originally scheduled for launch on March 15th the flight was aborted absolutely at the last second on its countdown because of a technical problem with one of the rocket’s engines. While […]