Netflix has released July data from its ISP Speed Index – a monthly update on which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide the best prime time Netflix streaming experience. While not quite as large as the increases in June, the month of July brought several notable upticks. Denmark’s Dansk Kabel TV saw the largest increase, rising […]

The C-Band Alliance (CBA) made another filing on August 14th to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and again fired a blistering extra salvo at suggestions made by the ACA Connects Coalition (ACACC). Peter Pitsch, CBA’s Head of Advocacy and Government Affairs said: “Our Reply Comment documents the numerous timing, technological and legal flaws that various […]

Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic spaceport in New Mexico is “operationally functional”. While, to date, Virgin’s rocket plane test flights have taken place in the Mojave Desert in California, the new site is at ‘Spaceport America’ in New Mexico, a purpose-built facility which has been “designed to enable Virgin Galactic to create an unparalleled experience […]

Subscribers’ broadband usage patterns can be predictors of cord-cutting, according to the Q2 2019 OpenVault Broadband Industry (OVBI) report by OpenVault, a provider of industry analytics and technology solutions for broadband operators. The report highlights how a study of thousands of US subscribers

SpaceX has had something of a maritime fleet from its beginnings. Its ‘Of course I still love you’ floating barge has been the landing stage for many of SpaceX flights. The second floating barge, with the giant text message saying “Just read the instructions” does a similar job usually on the Pacific. Elon Musk’s team […]

In support of the Malaysian Government’s National Fiberisation and Connectivity Plan to drive higher adoption of broadband nationwide, two of the country’s leading brands, Astro and Maxis, have announced a strategic marketing partnership between both parties to offer bundled broadband with content. Astro will be launching new bundles of 30 Mbps and 100 Mbps broadband […]

AirTies, a supplier of managed in-home Wi-Fi solutions to service providers globally, is providing Quickline with a suite of Smart Wi-Fi solutions to support its residential customers across Switzerland. Quickline is a broadband, television, and telecom provider in Switzerland. Specifically, Quickline will use AirTies’ Remote Manager, a cloud-based optimisation tool that provides real-time visibility into […]

The C-Band Alliance has won significant extra support for its reallocation of satellite spectrum over the US to help speed 5G’s adoption. The support comes from CBS, Discovery, Fox, Disney, Univision and Viacom, which in a 19-page filing to the FCC make it very clear that during the past 13 months they (the ‘Content Companies’) […]

Virtual Instruments, a specialist in AIOps for hybrid infrastructure management, has completed its acquisition of SaaS-based cloud cost, optimisation and monitoring service provider Metricly. The acquisition will enable Virtual Instruments to expand its cloud migration, monitoring and analytics portfolio to offer customers SaaS-based, hybrid infrastructure management across multi-cloud environments. Formerly Netuitive – one of the […]