A few positive words on July 26th from SES CEO Steve Collar on the prospects for a favourable agreement from the FCC helped send share prices for the key member of the C-Band Alliance on a firm upward trajectory. For example, Intelsat – which would be a major beneficiary of an FCC agreement – rose […]
Technicolor’s Connected Home business has shipped more than 4 million units of DOCSIS 3.1 devices to cable providers in the EMEA, APAC, and Americas regions. In North America, the leading cable providers accounted for the deployment of 3 million units, with Latin America and Eurasia shipping an additional 1 million units. The company says the […]
Satellite operator SES has described its Half Year 2019 Results as “solid”, with continued revenue growth in Networks, strong control over cost and discretionary spending and important progress towards reshaping SES with the objective of delivering exceptional services and driving customer success. Reported revenue was €961.4 million, down 5.1 at constant FX, with underlying revenue […]
Japan’s media conglomerate SoftBank says it has signed a “business agreement” in order to “advance” OneWeb’s commercial services in preparation for the satellite operator’s high-speed, low latency global connectivity services. SoftBank is a major $1bn+ investor in OneWeb (along with Airbus, Intelsat, Coca Cola, Bharti and others). Details of the agreement are sketchy, other than […]
Convergent telco Masmovil Group’s H1 indicate the company continues to lead the acquisition of customers in the Spanish telecommunications market and reaching new record for both revenues and EBITDA. During this period, Masmovil continued to increase the Group’s profitability and has obtained a record EBITDA of €216 million (+40 per cent). The EBITDA margin has […]
According to a report by Dell’Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the telecommunications, networks, and data centre IT industries, global PON equipment market revenue is forecast to reach $7.3 billion by 2023, driven by spending on new 10 Gbps EPON and XGS-PON deployments, and on maximising existing 2.5 Gbps GPON networks. Telecom […]
UK multiplay operator Virgin Media has unveiled what it describes as a “bold boost” to UK broadband with plans that will bring next-generation gigabit connections to its entire network by the end of 2021 – which it says will make it the UK’s largest and fastest widely available residential gigabit connectivity provider. Providing nearly 15 […]
Orange Spain’s revenues remained flat in the first half of the year reaching €2.6 billion, down 0.4 per cent versus the same period last year. EBITDA grew by 2 per cent to €787 million and CAPEX amounted to €529 million, down 7.8 per cent. Orange has over 3 million fibre optic customers, up 19.7 per […]
Ottawa-based satellite operator Telesat has won a hugely valuable contract from the Canadian government. The overall value of the contract, designed to fill the “digital divide” for Canadian citizens and wider audiences, is worth some C$1.2 billion (€0.82bn) over a 10-year period. This revenue stream includes a contribution of up to C$600 million from the […]
Parks Associates research from the 360 View: CE Adoption & Trends report finds 22 per cent of US broadband households have a Wi-Fi network extender and 11 per cent have a Wi-Fi mesh networking product. The firm notes that just over 30 per cent of computing and entertainment device owners report experiencing loss of wireless […]