Ottawa-based Telesat says it will participate in any upcoming C-Band reorganisation of capacity over the USA. CEO Dan Goldberg told analysts: “We’ll participate in the proceeding. We’re not at this point in time aligned with SES and Intelsat and Eutelsat on their position there. We’re sympathetic to the direction that the FCC is heading. We […]
Wowza Media Systems today announced support of Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH) nDVR to its award-winning Wowza Streaming Engine™ software, with a new update to version 4.7.6. The support of nDVR for MPEG-DASH allows adaptive bitrate streaming applications to implement pause, rewind, play and “jump-to-live” playback functionality for live video. “By offering the nDVR […]
The smart home is vital to communication service providers, a new report from ABI has claimed. It says it is a critical time for operators as they are being outperformed through rivals’ “aggressive” strategies. Pablo Tomasi, Senior Analyst said: “CSPs are being threatened in a market increasingly driven by the likes of Google and Amazon […]
Telefónica’s pay-TV platform Movistar Plus is launching a new in-house TV channel #Vamos specifically dedicated to sports. The new channel will broadcast 24/7 a programming based on live events, newscasts and interactive programmes with outstanding tournaments such as Wimbledon, NBA, Premier League and Liga Endesa among other contents. Movistar aims to turn #Vamos into a […]
The top 10 service providers in the United States lost over 358,000 television subscribers between them in the second quarter of 2018, as reported by the informitv Multiscreen Index. Satellite television providers DirecTV and DISH Network lost 478,000 subscribers between them, compared to 373,000 the previous quarter. Cable companies among the top 10 lost 233,000 […]
Broadband cable trade body Cable Europe is urging the European Commission not to accept Dutch regulator ACM’s draft broadband market analysis, which has concluded that multiplay operator VodafoneZiggo holds “joint significant market power (SMP)” together with Dutch incumbent operator KPN. As a direct consequence, both operators will have to provide wholesale access to third parties. […]
Rodolph Belmer, CEO at Eutelsat, in an interview with French financial daily Les Echos, says that he does not see the threat from OTT players putting significant pressures on its customer base. He adds that for every hour of OTT viewing, TV consumption only declines by 10 minutes. Moreover, while broadcasters will inevitably attempt to […]
Australia’s Optus has won the rights to broadcast the UEFA Champions League not long after it was heavily criticised for its botched coverage of the World Cup. The broadcaster said it would screen all Champions League matches for the next three years, as well as the UEFA Europa League and the UEFASuper Cup. It comes […]
Inmarsat CEO Rupert Pearce told analysts August 2nd that the recent EchoStar bid for Inmarsat was so unacceptable that any dialogue or engagement would have been seen as weakness. Pearce said that the EchoStar experience would not alter Inmarsat’s strategy, which would not change given that the company has a strong core business. “They had […]
The US Federal Communications Commission is continuing its efforts to promote broadband deployment and competition by speeding the process and reducing the costs of attaching new network facilities to utility poles. To enable broadband providers to enter new markets and deploy high-speed networks, access to poles must be swift, predictable, safe, and affordable. Pole access […]