BT has signed a five-year deal with The FA, worth around £50 million (€56.3m) to become the exclusive lead partner for all England representative teams and home of the national game, Wembley Stadium. The partnership will see the BT logo appear on all training kit worn by the England senior men’s and women’s squads and […]
BT is aiming to create a single, cloud-based technology platform to bring various lines of business together and enable a more flexible, virtualised network infrastructure. It will use the platform for new converged services, combining mobile, Wi-Fi and fixed networks. Neil McRae, Chief Architect at BT, said: “With growing demand from our ultrafast broadband services […]
SSIMWAVE, a specialist in the science of perceptual video quality measurement, has confirmed the availability of SSIMPLUS VOD Inspector, which it says is the first tool that enables the media industry to optimise video processing and delivery using the human visual system. The new cloud-based tool combines frame-by-frame and pixel-by-pixel analysis of video content with […]
Broadband access solutions provider Iskratel is claiming that an important milestone in enabling operators to deploy carrier-grade, virtualised PON solutions has been reached with its launched of a complete, integrated Software-Defined PON (SD-PON) solution, leveraging Radisys’s SD-PON framework for broadband access disaggregation. Based on open-community initiatives and the Open Networking Foundation’s (ONF) CORD architecture, the […]
Harmonic has announced a suite of new capabilities that are being added to its field-proven CableOS virtualised cable access solution. “The next generation of CableOS software solidifies our market leadership position, leveraging our powerful cloud-native architecture to enable smarter, more flexible and more scalable multi-gigabit broadband services,” said Asaf Matatyaou, vice president, solutions and product […]
During its General Assembly, the FTTH Council Europe formally adopted its working programme and announced the results of the annual election of its President, Board members and Working Committee Chairs. As the European elections just took place, with a new Parliament soon entering into office and a new College of European Commissioners to be appointed […]
The UK’s biggest broadband, phone and pay-TV companies have committed to put fairness at the heart of their business, after signing up to Ofcom’s new Fairness for Customers commitments. The media regulator has developed the commitments to strengthen how companies treat their customers. They aim to help ensure people are always treated fairly by their […]
An NBC affiliated station in the US has been blacked out because of a carriage dispute with DirecTV. KMTR (NBC 16) which serves viewers in Oregon, put out a statement on May 31st saying that DirecTV has “unilaterally decided to discontinue the carriage of this station”. KMTR is owned by Roberts Media and the Sinclair […]
United Group, South Eastern Europe’s leading telecoms and media business, has agreed to acquire Tele2 Croatia for an enterprise value of €220 million. The transaction is expected to close before the end of 2019 and is subject to regulatory approvals. This marks the first transaction since international investment firm BC Partners’ March 2019 acquisition of […]
Promptlink Communications, a provider of software applications for the management and testing of broadband networks and equipment, has announced the launch of Network NoiseHawk. Utilising a patent-pending algorithm to analyse PNM and SNMP polling data, Network NoiseHawk accurately pinpoints network noise and easily displays it for cable operators and their technicians, allowing for quick correction […]