Amid the continued fallout of the coronavirus crisis, the global smart home market is expected to fall nearly $20 billion (€17.9bn) short of revenue expectations in 2020, according to Omdia. The global smart home market will total $101.1 billion in 2020, down from Omdia’s previous forecast of $120.6 billion. Smart home device shipments are now […]
London-based specialty satellite operator Avanti Communications has had a challenging few years and not helped by changes in management, satellite delays, capital restructuring and last year withdrawing from London’s secondary Alternative Investment Market (AIM) and taking itself private. Kyle Whitehill joined the business as CEO in April 2018, barely two years ago and having spent […]
In-flight connectivity specialists Gogo says it is not giving financial guidance for its 2020 financial year because of the Coronavirus and its likely impact on passengers and flying in general. The company also warned that the virus, and consequent reduction in passenger flights, would mean its satellite bandwidth suppliers would be affected. “Roughly 73 per […]
Philip Jansen, Chief Executive, BT Group has late this afternoon tested positive for Coronavirus and as a result has followed the Public Health England protocols to self-isolate. BT is now working closely with Public Health England to undertake a full deep clean of relevant parts of its Group headquarters and will ensure those employees who […]
UK comms regulator Ofcom has confirmed how it will release important airwaves to help improve mobile broadband and support the rollout of 5G. To help improve mobile services and give more people access to 5G networks, Ofcom will release more mobile airwaves through an auction. This will increase the total amount of airwaves available for […]
Ajit Pai, chairman of the FCC, has strongly defended the regulator’s plan for a public auction for C-band, and told the US Senate Financial Services Subcommittee that he was confident that the FCC’s plan would be accepted. One senate member (Sen Chris Coons, Dem-Delaware) asked Pai how certain he was that there would not be […]
Elon Musk says his Starlink mega-constellation of Low Earth Orbiting satellites will be ultra-fast with latency of “below 20 milliseconds”. This should be fast enough to support multi-player game-playing. According to specialist reports most gamers would prefer response times in about 10 milliseconds, but they also accept that frequent online delays make these speeds difficult […]
Spanish telcos Movistar, Orange, Vodafone and MásMóvil are giving more broadband data and TV packages for free during the coronavirus quarantine, following Telefónica’s example. Orange will give 30 GB for free to ‘Love’ and ‘Go’ subscribers for a month. Also, the childrens TV package Infantil Max will be available at no extra cost. In addition, […]
Internet advertising revenue topped cash spent on TV ads for the first time in Japan in 2019. Online ad revenue surged 19.7 per cent in the country last year, compared to 2018, to hit 2.1048 trillion yen (€18.05 billion), according to advertising agency Dentsu. TV ad revenue from programmes fell to 1.8612 trillion yen, down […]
Jean-Marc Nasr, head of Space Systems at Airbus Defence & Space, says that its Florida joint-venture factory (with OneWeb) is now turning out an average of 1.5 satellites a day. However, another OneWeb executive said that recently they completed three satellites in 1 day. Nasrt told delegates at the Satellite 2020 conference that OneWeb’s first […]