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Intelsat “cash windfall” from C-band reworking

Intelsat’s proposal (with SES and Eutelsat) to see some of its C-band frequencies re-worked  over the US to help propel 5G cellular growth has rarely been out of the news. A report from equity analysts at investment bank Jefferies is extremely positive. No doubt coincidentally, Intelsat on September 5th announced that they would be raising […]

September 6, 2018By Chris Forrester

Google’s Loon to supply broadband over East Africa

Project Loon, the Google-backed high-flying balloon, is in discussions with the governments of Kenya and Uganda to supply WiFi connectivity over the countries. The Loon concept, now a stand-alone business, uses balloons which fly in the stratosphere and which beam 4G LTE signals in order to bring internet services to people in extremely remote locations. […]

September 6, 2018By Chris Forrester

Asia: 4G remains main broadband driver

According to Dataxis research, almost 40 per cent of households in 17 Asian countries will be connected to fixed broadband by the end of 2018. But the levels of penetration remain significantly different between mature and emerging economies: penetration of fixed internet lines (xDSL, FTTx and Internet cable) reaches over 90 per cent in South […]

September 6, 2018

Navarino, SES deliver global connectivity to ships

Navarino, the maritime communications and technology company, has revealed it will be offering SES Networks’ global managed mobility service, based in Ku-band, to support its delivery of high quality connectivity to global shipping companies. “Navarino has a wide customer base with a broad range of diverse requirements that demand reliable and consistent high-speed connections for […]

September 6, 2018

Kagan: 17% of US homes are OTT only

The number of wireline broadband homes not subscribing to traditional multichannel in the US reached a new record high in the second quarter, according to a Kagan report. Overall, an estimated 16.9 per cent of US occupied households were “broadband-only homes” in the second quarter, up nearly 3 percentage points year-over-year. The boom in broadband-only […]

September 5, 2018

US, Asia most active mobile video markets; Europe lags

The move to active mobile video offerings will grow as entertainment bundling with mobile services becomes a must, according to the 2018 Economics of Mobile Programming Report by Kagan, the media research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence. North American and Asian markets lead the charge in a shift to active mobile video markets. In […]

September 5, 2018

Spain: Financial aid for new DTT migration

The Spanish Government will finance DTT migration with grants – to be specified in 2019 – to citizens and TV operators. State Secretary for Digital Advance, Francisco Polo, said the grants will be included in the next State Budget. The migration will start in January 2019 and will be initially completed in 2020 if no […]

September 5, 2018From David Del Valle in Madrid

Cisco spin-off named Synamedia

The company being created from the sale of Cisco’s Service Provider Video Software Solutions business to a company backed by the Permira funds is unveiled as Synamedia, preceding the transaction closure expected in first half of Cisco’s FY19. ‘Syna’ means ‘together’ in Greek, reflecting Synamedia’s ambition to bring together broadcast and OTT media services and […]

September 4, 2018By Colin Mann

Cable Europe: EC ‘not objective’ on Dutch broadband market

A draft decision from the Dutch regulator, endorsed by the European Commission , identifies cable operator VodafoneZiggo and incumbent operator KPN as having collective significant market power (SMP) on the wholesale fixed broadband access market.  The result of the market analysis is the imposition of third party wholesale access obligations to both networks. Says Matthias […]

September 4, 2018

India: Netflix partners with Hathway Broadband

Netflix has partnered with Indian cable broadband provider Hathway to provide consumers access to its content through the Hathway set-top box. The set-top box will come with a remote that has a separate Netflix button allowing users to launch the streaming service. Hathway subscribers will be able to pay for their Netflix subscription using their […]

September 4, 2018