FCC Chairman Ajit Pai was generous in his treatment of the C-Band Alliance, and his decision has won approval from the Alliance, the 5G Action Now lobby group and a host of investment analysts. Chairman Pai’s plan would repurpose most of the C-band for 5G deployment while ensuring current users of the spectrum could continue […]
An Arianespace Soyuz rocket has successfully placed 34 satellites into orbit for OneWeb. In a complex mission, the Soyuz lifted off 02.42 am (local time) Friday morning from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, and shortly afterwards started releasing its spacecraft in batches of 4 at 20-minute intervals. The satellites were deployed at a height of 450 kms. They […]
Communications company and sports and news-focused live TV streaming service fuboTV have agreed a video streaming distribution and technology partnership that they say advances how content can be delivered and consumed in-flight. The partnership claims to be the first to leverage technology standards from the global technical association, the Streaming Video Alliance, and apply them […]
Thaicom is suffering with revenue down 22.4 per cent for last year to THB 4,663 million (€136m) which it blamed on a decrease of revenues from satellite and related services due to customer churn. That churn, it says, mostly occurred in the first-half of 2019 and has since stabilized and been helped by new customers […]
Signalling technology’s massive presence in sports, a record 26.42 terabytes of data was transferred within the stadium during Super Bowl LIV in Miami on February 2nd – an increase of 9.9 per cent from last year’s NFL championship game, despite being held at a smaller-capacity stadium with nearly 10,000 fewer fans Extreme Networks, the official […]
Omdia, the freshly-rebranded technology research group, has released a new research paper which it says connects the dots between the strategies, technologies, companies and market trends impacting industries as they transition to 5G. Covering areas as diverse as sports, autonomous vehicles, gaming, wireless components, IoT, cybersecurity and AI – this preview of the 5G developments […]
Google Fiber, part of the Access division of Alphabet Inc, which provides gigabit fibre broadband Internet and IPTV to a number of locations in the US, will no longer be offering a traditional linear TV product to its new subscribers, saying it is happy to help everyone explore other options to get their favourite programming […]
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai has proposed providing additional opportunities for unlicensed white space devices to deliver wireless broadband services in rural areas of the US. Such devices operate in portions of the broadcast television bands (channels 2-35) and spectrum not being used for authorised services. Chairman Pai is seeking to spur the continued […]
Vodafone reports converged offers in markets where it merged with Liberty Global last year have added over 10 per cent to revenue. Excluding the VodafoneZiggo JV with Liberty Global in the Netherlands, Vodafone had 24.7 million fixed broadband customers, including 21 million ‘next-gen network’ customers, seven million converged customers and 22 million TV customers in […]
Thirty-four satellites for the OneWeb constellation are ready for launch from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The satellites which arrived in two shipments, including one last week, have been tested, and have now been fitted into the dispenser of the Soyuz-2.1b rocket. The launch of has been scheduled for February 7th 02:42 (local time) from the historic Baikonur […]