Liberty Global has revealed that Severina Pascu will join UK multiplay operator Virgin Media as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO) effective February 1st, 2020. Pascu is currently CEO of Liberty Global’s Swiss operations, UPC Switzerland, and will be succeeded in that role by Baptiest Coopmans, Senior Vice President Operations for […]
The C-Band Alliance (CBA, comprising Intelsat, SES and Telesat) filed a Fact Sheet on January 14th that – in essence – urges the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to move more quickly in the “monumental task of transitioning C-band spectrum from satellite transmissions to 5G mobile”. The Fact Sheet pulls no punches in its message to […]
Several European countries experienced sizable gains across multiple services on December’s Netflix ISP Speed Index, a monthly update on which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide the best prime time Netflix streaming experience. The final month of 2019 saw upticks in Bolivia, Hungary and Poland. Bolivia had the largest increase as Entel jumped 0.73 Megabits per […]
OneWeb, which will launch its first major batch of 30 satellites on Februay 7th, has linked with UK-based SatixFy to add a digital technology pathway payload that will include a full digital payload into OneWeb’s launch schedule during 2021. This new technology will pave the way for satellites with a higher level of flexibility to […]
Thousands more new-build homes are in line for a broadband boost as UK digital infrastructure provider Openreach is extending the reach of its scheme offering Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) installation free of charge for new housing developments. Developers building smaller new sites of just 20 or more properties are now eligible to have full fibre connectivity built […]
A research note from Deutsche Bank in anticipation of the upcoming end-of-year results from SES (due on February 26th) again talk up a merger between SES and its smaller rival Eutelsat. The bank’s media analyst Laurie Davison says he now sees the prospects of a merger between the two satellite operators as “higher” and cautions […]
Thailand’s Thaicom satellite operator is talking to three foreign companies about potential partnership agreements and which would lead to the partner taking care of Thaicom’s ground stations and looking after its data transmission business. Thaicom says the transmission antennas and equipment for converting signals to an internet protocol signal for terrestrial connectivity are already installed. […]
Nigeria’s Communications Commission says the overall sum to be invested into the nation’s broadband infrastructure will top Naira 265 billion (about €65.7 billion). The Commission will put N65 billion into 6 private companies under public/private partnership deals, said Umar Danbatta, the CEO of the Nigerian Communications Commission. The aim is to boost connectivity for the […]
In its latest analysis of satellite manufacturing and launch services, Euroconsult projects that the satellite market will experience a radical transformation in the quantity, value and mass of the satellites to be built and launched with a four-fold increase in the number of satellites at a yearly average of 990 satellites to be launched,
Early in February OneWeb is due to launch a batch of 34 satellites from the Kazakhstan launch facility at Baikonur. Arianespace is responsible for this launch and has contracts in place for about 20 further launches in order to place an initial 672 satellites into Low Earth orbit. Other launches will take place from Baikonur […]