Portuguese cable TV operator Nowo has rolled out an IPTV service that allows access to content both nationwide and anywhere in the EU. The cost for the dedicated Box IP is €79.99, while the service has a monthly fee of €12.99 for the option with 33 TV channels and €19.99 for 82 TV channels. In […]
Vodafone and the Spain’s fourth largest telco MasMovil have reached an agreement to share FTTH networks covering some 1.9 million households in the country. With the deal Vodafone will add up to 1 million FTTH homes and will gain access to 100,000 homes currently not covered by its own network and shared infrastructure. As of […]
Corporate statements tend not to be quite so brutal, and rarely can one read phrases such as “disastrous management” – in this case uttered by Vivendi – towards Telecom Italia (TIM), with Vivendi adding: “The stock market performance is dramatic: TIM’s share price dropped about 35% since May 4, 2018, and is at its lowest […]
Spanish telco Telefónica is replicating Spain’s FTTH model with a massive deployment of networks in Brazil. The company already covers 100 cities with plans to extend the network to 20 cities more later in the year. Telefónica is distributing some 100 HD TV channels among them Cartoon Network Ja!, Discovery Kids ON, Esporte Interativo Plus, […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]