The C-Band Alliance (CBA) of Intelsat, SES, Eutelsat and Telesat) has provided extremely detailed plans of its proposals to free up C-band spectrum over the US. The Alliance, in its submission to the Federal Communications Commission on May 21st, says that it could release nine licence blocks of spectrum each of 20 MHz, which overall […]
Latin America’s broadband penetration reached 45 per cent of households in 2018 from a previous 43 per cent in 2017. Going forward, 10 million new accesses are expected within two years and internet household penetration will reach 50 per cent of households in 2020, according to GlobalData, a data and analytics company. Ivan Maldonado, Technology […]
Plusnet has been named best broadband provider in the UK for the third year in a row. Research and analysis from UK broadband comparison website Broadband Genie found Plusnet scored well across all categories, comfortably winning the main award. Post Office Broadband was voted most trusted provider and Zen Internet picked up the award for […]
Airbus Defence & Space has won orders for three geostationary satellites. In a complex series of contracts, two of the orders are carried out with Thales Alenia Space and the end customer is Spain’s Ministry of Defence. The third craft is for Malaysia’s Measat commercial operator. The orders were extremely well received by the industry […]
According to Russia’s Sputnik news agency the first OneWeb satellites that will be launched by Soyuz-2 rockets from the Baikonur cosmodrome are on schedule for delivery to the launch site late summer or early autumn. Launches are currently planned to start in December with each rocket carrying 35 per month. “Deliveries of OneWeb satellites to […]
Elon Musk’s debut launch of 60 ‘Starlink’ satellites should happen on May 23rd – probably. Two planned launches last week were scrubbed for bad weather and in the case of the second launch in order to update software on the satellites. But Musk took the postponement to brief journalists on how he saw the mega-constellation […]
Faster time-to-market for interoperable, standards-based Connected Home solutions which help operators unlock additional income has been made possible, as Broadband Forum published its Open Broadband – USP Agent (OB-USP-Agent) implementation. Giving vendors a code base to either integrate into their devices or use as a reference implementation as they utilize User Services Platform (USP), OB-USP-Agent […]
The starting gun has been fired on a programme to roll out gigabit-capable full fibre broadband to the most rural and remote locations in the UK, Digital Secretary Jeremy Wright has announced. In the summer of 2018, the UK Government identified that approximately 10 per cent of UK premises, largely in rural and remote areas, […]
With streaming rapidly becoming a high-priority investment area for media firms, the $62 million (€55.5m) OTT monitoring and compliance (M&C) market is forecast to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15.8 per cent to reach $149.7 million by 2024, according to Frost & Sullivan. There will be increased demand for broadcast-like video […]
Turkish Aerospace and Argentina’s INVAP have formed a strategic alliance to develop a new geostationary satellite. INVAP is a well-regarded business with some 1300 staff. IT was the first company in Latin America to achieve certification from NASA. It constructs satellite payloads and ground stations. The pair’s statement said that INVAP has been working to […]