BT Group has announced the appointment of Philip Jansen as Chief Executive. He will join the Company and be appointed to the Board as an Executive Director on January 1st 2019 and following a handover period will take over from Gavin Patterson as Chief Executive on February 1st 2019. Jansen joins from Worldpay, the global […]
Openwave Mobility’s Mobile Video Industry Council (MVIC) meeting in London, which included Tier 1 mobile operators Deutsche Telekom, EE, KPN, MTS, Orange, Telefonica, Telus and Vodafone, expect that up to 90 per cent of 5G traffic could be mobile video. This projection is based on current trends and the upward trajectory of mobile video traffic, […]
Vodafone has become the first company in the UK to carry full 5G over a commercial network. Live mobile data traffic is now being streamed to and from the Internet exclusively over 5G from a site in Salford, Greater Manchester, connected to Vodafone’s nationwide converged fibre network. Until now, companies have tested the technology either […]
With 50 per cent of houses still connected to less than 100Mbps, a combination of solutions comparable to Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) is essential to efficiently provide the speeds required by end-users, according to NetComm Marketing and Communications Director Els Baert. Speaking on the final day of Broadband World Forum 2018, Baert said that although fibre assets […]
A series of comprehensive tests using In Flight Communications supplier Global Eagle, and with Canada-based Telesat’s Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) Phase 1 satellite and its ANIK F3 geostationary satellite, provided the “shortest-ever connection time” for the round-trip from the aircraft to the associated ground equipment. A statement from technology provider Gilat Satellite Networks said that […]
Sky Italia, as reported yesterday, is to add fixed-line broadband as well as a mobile product in the Spring of 2019, according to equity analysts at Deutsche Bank, quoting Italian sources. “The fixed broadband aspect was known – Sky signed an agreement with Open Fibre in March to provide fibre to the home (FTTH) – […]
The provision of superfast broadband has increased by 25 per cent across OECD member states, according to the Teligen division of consultancy firm Strategy Analytics. Within a year, the number of providers offering the highest speed plans has increased from 49 in 24 countries to 62 in 28 countries. As superfast broadband becomes more prevalent, […]
Telenor, the Norwegian multinational telco, has reported Q3 subscription and traffic revenues were stable, while total revenues increased by 1 per cent to NOK 27.6 billion (€2.91 billion). Sigve Brekke, Chief Executive Officer of Telenor Group, said in a statement: “The Telenor team delivered another quarter of solid and consistent performance, with stable revenues and a […]
Following the large-scale deployment of residential Wi-Fi services relying on its core elements, the cloud managed modern home services pioneer Plume, and Samsung have announced the formation of a new open source software initiative called OpenSync. The initiative, whose elements have already been deployed by Liberty Global, Bell and Comcast, creates a silicon, CPE, and […]
Italian pay-TV operator Sky Italia is planning to expand its activities into the telecommunications sector. Details of the transformation of the business – planned for spring 2019 – are contained in a confidential report, details of which have been leaked by local daily Il Fatto Quotidiano. The idea is to offer Sky-branded fixed and mobile […]