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GoGo ‘solid’ Q2

Airline broadband and connectivity supplier GoGo reported revenues for Q2 up 9 per cent to $173 million (€193m), and EBITDA rising to $37.8 million (from $18.9m in the same period last year). “Gogo delivered a solid second quarter, driven by strong underlying service revenue, operational execution and successful implementation of cost controls, including lower than […]

August 12, 2019By Chris Forrester

CBA describes ACA proposals for 5G as “half-baked”

In its latest filing the C-Band Alliance (CBA) is being ultra-polite in suggesting that a submission to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) by the America’s Communications Association’s Connects Coalition (ACACC) “lacks significant detail”, is “mistaken”, “fails to articulate”, “a gross misunderstanding”, is “impossible to achieve”, “faulty assumptions”, “half-baked” and just to rub home the message […]

August 9, 2019By Chris Forrester

OneWeb responds to Virgin Orbit lawsuit

Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit company is suing OneWeb for $46.5 million alleging that the satellite mega-constellation company has filed to pay agreed cancellation charges for orbiting some OneWeb satellites. OneWeb had allegedly signed a contract with Virgin to use Branson’s business for 35 launch flights on its Virgin LauncherOne rocket. Virgin’s contract, signed in […]

August 9, 2019By Chris Forrester

Liberty drops subs, ups share buyback

Liberty Global reported sales from continuing operations down 0.9 per cent in the second quarter as it shed 29,000 cable subs versus a gain of 41,000 in year ago quarter. There were net losses of 5,000 at Virgin Media in the UK, 20,000 at Telenet in Belgium and 28,000 at UPC Switzerland, offset by a […]

August 8, 2019

Analyst: WiFi dominates in-home net connectivity

The success of Wi-Fi technology is confirmed in new research from Strategy Analytics showing that nearly five billion home Wi-Fi devices are now in use around the world. Furthermore, the report – The Wireless Home: Assessing the Scale of the Global Home Wi-Fi Device Market – predicts that a new wave of Wi-Fi smart home […]

August 8, 2019

Forecast: Less than 80m US pay-TV homes by 2021

Cord-cutting in the US continues to accelerate, with the number of cord-cutting households jumping another 19.2 per cent this year. According to eMarketer’s latest pay-TV forecast, the number of households without a traditional pay-TV subscription is quickly approaching those that have one. This year, the number of pay-TV households in the US will decline by […]

August 7, 2019

FCC will adopt “main lines” of CBA proposal

A comprehensive review of the US C-band segment and its restructuring prospects has been issued by Northern Sky Research (C-Band Repurposing for 5G: Impacts and Analysis). The NSR report suggests that the upcoming Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decision on the proposed realignment of 180 MHz of spectrum will be mostly favourable. NSR says that following […]

August 7, 2019By Chris Forrester

“Come fly on my rockets” says Musk

While flying humans into space, and perhaps as far as Mars, might be Elon Musk’s ultimate goal – he is also saying to small satellite designers and operators to join his Falcon 9 club of clients. SpaceX says its new SmallSat Rideshare project will help get smallish satellites into Sun-Synchronous Orbits for ultra-low fees of […]

August 7, 2019

Successful launches for Amos-17, Intelsat I-39

August 6th was a busy night both at the Kourou space centre in French Guiana and at Florida’s Cape Canaveral. Arianespace successfully launched Intelsat’s I-39 as well as the European Data Relay System’s satellite which has an additional payload in the form of bandwidth dubbed Hylas 3 for London-based Avanti Communications. The launch took place […]

August 7, 2019By Chris Forrester

UK ISPs combine to set ‘Boris fibre’ conditions

UK operators have outlined their conditions to make PM Boris Johnson’s demand for full-fibre broadband “for all” by 2025 a reality. They say urgent action is required within 12 months in four key issues. In an open letter from the Internet Services Providers’ Association and the Federation of Communications Services and Independent Networks Cooperative Association […]

August 6, 2019