Elon Musk’s SpaceX project has a sister operation in the form of Starlink, a plan to launch around 4425 satellites in order to girdle the Earth and provide high-capacity broadband to every part of the planet. Starlink’s overall aim is to populate is fleet with up to 10,000 satellites in order to cope with anticipated […]
Eutelsat unveiled its Q1 results (to September 30th) and warned of slower progress for the rest of its fiscal year. The results were issued after the market closed on October 30th. As the market opened on October 31st, its share price crashed 12.37 per cent to €18.34. The revenue news was generally bad, and given […]
Intelsat’s CEO Stephen Spengler told analysts during its Q3 conference call that the C-band Alliance’s (CBA) plan to free up C-band capacity for the USA’s speedy adoption of 5G would be limited to 200 MHz, and that this bandwidth was the highest slice of spectrum likely to be available in the short-to-medium term. Spengler said […]
Standard Media Index (SMI), a source for ad pricing and revenue data, has unveiled US television figures for the 2017-18 Broadcast Season. This month marks the start of the company’s updated version of our AccuTV product. With this advancement, SMI says it is expanding coverage and improving accuracy through a new relationship with Nielsen Ad […]
Research from consumer body Which? into the UK’s biggest broadband providers has found that Virgin Media customers were the most likely to have experienced a problem with their broadband service over the last 12 months, with issues affecting seven in 10 people. The latest results of its broadband survey of more than 7,000 customers found […]
The UK Government is to give rural areas a £200 million funding package as part of its full-fibre broadband pledge. The money – announced by Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond as part of his Budget measures – has been allocated from the National Productivity Infrastructure Fund and is intended as a stimulus for companies […]
FTTH in Spain continues to grow with 146,295 lines added in August to hit 7.8 million customers, according to figures from regulatory body CNMC. FTTH already represents over 50 per cent of the total broadband fixed market in the country with 14.59 million. Movistar leads the FTTH market with 3.7 million lines, 47.8 per cent […]
The C-band Alliance (CBA) of Intelsat, SES, Eutelsat and Telesat told the FCC on October 29th that a market-based approach represented the fastest way to repurpose C-band over the US, essential if a speedy approach is needed to free up bandwidth for 5G telephony. “The Market-Based Approach will minimise the need for Commission intervention and […]
US President Donald Trump has ordered a range of agencies to work on developing what he describes as a “balanced, forward-looking, flexible, and sustainable approach to spectrum management” as part of his desire for America be first in fifth-generation (5G) wireless technologies. In a Presidential Memorandum, he notes that in the growing digital economy, wireless […]
California-based broadband satellite operator ViaSat has awarded the launch contract for its latest craft to SpaceX and one of its ‘Heavy’ versions. The giant satellite will be ready for launch in the 2020-2022 time frame. This is the second-time ViaSat has awarded a contract to SpaceX although the previous agreement was scrubbed in favour of […]