Consumers have saved $3.5 billion, and more than 20 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions have been avoided as a result of the voluntary set-top box energy conservation agreement among US pay-TV providers, manufacturers and energy efficiency advocates, according to a new report on the industry Voluntary Agreement for Ongoing Improvement to the […]
In-Flight Entertainment supplier Global Eagle Entertainment (GEE) continues to expand its European presence, saying that it is now adding installations on LOT Polish Airlines, and during Q2 it completed installs on Norwegian’s 737 fleet. “Norwegian offers free WiFi and has one of the highest Wi-Fi Web browsing take rates of any airline globally,” GEE’s CEO […]
International TV and broadband company Liberty Global’s Q2 and H1 results have been boosted by record Virgin Media rebased revenue growth and subscriber additions. It reported overall company Q2 Revenue of $3.0 billion (€2.559bn) and YoY growth up 2.7 per cent, but with Q2 residential cable revenue of $2.0 billion down 1.8 per cent year-over-year. […]
Three months after its launch, Movistar’s voice assistant Aura has reached over 470,000 customers who use it to manage the pay-TV platform. Through the app, available on Android and IOS, subscribers voice search the pay-TV content, including TV series, cinema under different categories (actors, directors, latest releases…), ask for recommendations, or change the channel. The […]
Senior executives, operational managers and engineers in cable organisations around the world have reported aggressive plans to adopt and deploy DOCSIS 3.1, according to a recent customer survey conducted by Technicolor Connected Home in May and June of 2018. The survey by the communications and entertainment technologist finds that 76 per cent of cable operator […]
EchoStar chairman Charlie Ergen seemed to bear no ill-will towards his takeover target Inmarsat in his comments made during the company’s Q2 results presentation. However, he told analysts that “scale matters” and that just about every satellite operator was “sub-scale” and explained that almost all the satellite players were suffering video markets which have been […]
Elon Musk’s SpaceX managed a textbook launch of Telkom Indonesia’s Merah Putih (Red & White) satellite in the early hours (01.18 am EDT) of August 7th from Cape Canaveral. The launch was the 15th this year for SpaceX. The launch used – or re-used – a Falcon 9 Block 5 ‘flight tested’ rocket which had […]
ARRIS has announced that Australia’s National Broadband Network has begun rolling out ARRIS’s technology solutions for its nationwide launch of DOCSIS 3.1. This network expansion builds capacity to support the country’s current and future broadband services. ARRIS and NBN will bring DOCSIS 3.1 to three million premises in major Australian cities by 2020. The evolution […]
The use of SVoD services has surged ahead in UK, according to official figures. Close to half of all adults said they had watched Netflix, NOW TV, Amazon Prime Video or a similar Internet-based service over the past three months. That compares to less than a third of respondents in 2016, the last time the […]
UK gigabit broadband provider Hyperoptic has completed a debt raise of one quarter of a billion pounds (€280m) from eight leading international banks to extend its full fibre optic network to 50 towns and cities across the country by 2019. It claims this is the largest single investment in the UK for a full fibre […]