CommScope has showcassd two next-generation additions to its RDK Video Accelerator portfolio at IBC: a Smart Media Device (SMD) platform 7852 featuring Wi-Fi 6 connectivity, as well as an IP Client VIP7802 with Wi-Fi 6. Both devices include AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) and high dynamic range (HDR) capabilities. Each of the advanced device platforms support […]
Spacecom, operator of the AMOS satellite fleet, and Botswana Telecommunications Corporation Limited (BTC) has announced that BTC is doubling its capacity on AMOS-7 communication satellite KU-beams. With this new capacity, BTC is adding cellular backhaul and various long-distance communication services to enhance rural area connectivity. AMOS-7’s KU-band beams enable mobility by providing high data rates […]
Portugal reached nearly 4 million pay-TV subscribers at the end of the first half of 2019, a growth of 2.3 per cent year-on-year and accounting for a 86 per cent penetration rate. Data published by the National Communications Authority reveals that the growth was boosted by the FTTH technology, which added 298,000 subscribers since H1 […]
Executives at satellite operator SES consider the company well-placed to respond to the changing needs of its customers. Steve Collar, CEO, speaking at a press briefing at IBC 2019 in Amsterdam, said that the operator had the superpower of reach and economics, suggesting that its recent agreement with Microsoft to develop a range of cloud-based […]
Movistar has become the first Spanish telco to eliminate the obligation for new subscribers to stay with the company when subscribing to its Fusión service. The clause will be removed for new and existing customers to make them feel “free to select whatever company for the quality and variety of its services”, according to Movistar. […]
In-Flight Entertainment & Connectivity specialists Gogo says it has now installed more than 1500 aircraft with its Satellite-based In-Flight technology. The specifics are that: • 1,262 aircraft installed and activated with Gogo’s 2Ku technology (categorized as Aircraft Online, or “AOL”); • 252 aircraft installed and activated with Ku technology (categorized as AOL); • Approximately 850 2Ku aircraft currently […]
Sandvine, a provider of network intelligence solutions, has released its 2019 Global Internet Phenomena Report. The report provides insights how applications are consuming the world’s internet bandwidth. With an installed base of over 2.5 billion subscribers worldwide across over 160 Tier 1 and Tier 2 fixed, mobile, WiFi, and satellite operators, Sandvine’s visibility into internet […]
SpaceX’s president Gwynn Shotwell told delegates at the Euroconsult World Satellite Business Week in Paris that SpaceX is planning for 24 launch missions for its proposed Starlink broadband-by-satellite system. She stressed that its two-a-month launches would not impact other commercial and NASA launches. Shotwell added that there would probably be extra Starlink launches this year […]
Communications and media technology provider ARRIS (now part of CommScope via acquisition) has confirmed that multiplay operator Altice France is collaborating with CommScope to bring a personalised connected home experience to its SFR subscribers. Altice’s SFR Box 8 Smart Media Device represents the next phase of customer experience engagement as it aggregates services that consumers […]
Collins Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies, is teaming with satellite operator SES to bring business aviation customers the fastest broadband speeds available within the US. The two companies are launching LuxStream — a service offering speeds up to 25 Mbps in the US and 15Mbps globally via SES’s managed Ku-band satellite network “In-flight […]