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 […]
Analyst firm Digital TV Research forecasts 60 million additional pay-TV subscribers between 2018 and 2024 to take the global total to 1.08 billion. China will provide 19 million additional subs and India 26 million. However, the US will lose 14.4 million pay-TV subscribers between 2018 and 2024 – down by 16 per cent. “We have […]
Eutelsat CEO Rodophe Belmer sat alongside the CEOs of his former partners in the C-Band Alliance (SES, Intelsat and Telesat) on a conference panel and his comments were blunt as he told delegates to Euroconsult’s World Satellite Business Week in Paris that the other members of the Alliance were not listening to Eutelsat and its […]
OneWeb wants to place an initial 650 low-orbiting broadband satellites into space. It has already raised $3.4 billion (€3bn) in funding – but needs more. OneWeb reportedly needs some $5 billion to get its fleet built and launched, and to start supplying its broadband-by-satellite service to unserved users around the planet. The company has already […]
Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA team and Shark Tank judge, was an early and enthusiastic adopter of HD television broadcasting. He has now sold his stake in his HDNet suite of cable channels. His HDNet cable channels were launched in 2001 and one of the very first to offer viewers […]
According to the second annual survey on connected automobile technologies from mobile, connected car, connected home and IoT Solutions provider Metova, Technology/Infotainment now outpaces Power, Interior Design and Seating and Storage Capacity and is on par with Exterior Design and Ratings and Reviews as a deciding factor in purchasing a new automobile. In addition, the […]
Syntelix, the satellite telecommunications solutions provider, specialised in remote environments and mobility communications, has chosen Hispasat, the Spanish satellite telecommunications operator, to bring its connectivity solutions to the American maritime market. Demand in the maritime connectivity market is defined by accentuated peaks and seasonal variation. Hispasat and Syntelix have therefore developed USAIL, the most efficient […]
August brought declines across India on the Netflix ISP Speed Index – a monthly update on which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide the best prime time Netflix streaming experience. Three different Internet providers in the country experienced declines in the month of August. D-VoiS fell 0.33 Megabits per second (Mbps) to a 2.57 Mbps average, […]
Airlines that have successfully installed connected cabins have an immediate opportunity to win $33 billion (€29.88bn) in market share from competitors. That is the conclusion of new economic modelling from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in association with global mobile satellite communications provider Inmarsat. The report, Sky High Economics – Chapter […]