ARRIS International has announced its support for the RDK software stack across its next-generation EPON gateways. RDK support will offer several key benefits to ARRIS’s global customers, including: a unified back-office system for managing both fibre and DOCSIS architectures, simplified network provisioning, carrier-grade management features, and full integration with the ARRIS HomeAssure solution. “RDK is […]
Charlie Ergen, co-founder of the EchoStar and Dish Network businesses in the US, has offered to buy Inmarsat, the London-based global satellite company. Inmarsat, in a statement after the market had closed on June 8th, said that it had received “a highly preliminary and indicative non-binding proposal from EchoStar Corporation in relation to the potential […]
India’s recently formed cellular telco Reliance Jio ended its financial year on March 31st with a total of 186.6 million subscribers, having added a net 83 million subs during the year, which is greater growth than all of India’s other operators combined. The company has enjoyed a spectacular success having only been formed in 2010 […]
Canada is funding a new initiative for its “Connecting Families” concept, aimed at providing low-cost Internet to many thousands of families in rural and isolated areas of the country. Canada’s Innovation Minister, Navdeep Bains, speaking last week at the Canadian Telcom Summit Toronto, said that the government would allocate C$100 million (€65.3m) in this year’s […]
Long distance travellers using Air Canada’s international flights can now access satellite-based broadband from service provider Gogo. A statement from Air Canada said that its passengers on its fleet of Boeing 777-300ER and Air Canada Rouge aircraft can tap into Gogo’s service. The airline said that all of Air Canada’s wide-body aircraft will be equipped […]
Gavin Patterson, BT CEO, is leaving after five years in the post. The company said it would recruit a successor in the second half of the year, and Patterson would remain until that time. Shares in the company are at a six-year low and three weeks ago it announced an ambitious restructuring including 13,000 job […]
To be honest, I think the surprise isn’t that Gavin Patterson has been ousted as BT CEO, but that it didn’t happen sooner. To start with the positive: no question getting BT back in the mobile business with the EE acquisition was putting right a terrible mistake – all be it a mistake forced on […]
Work on so-called ‘smart cities’ is happening around the world, and one suggestion is to use LED lighting as a substitute for WiFi or 5G in cities equipped with ‘smart’ street lights. The concept is simple, although whether it will catch on in the face of widespread WiFi and development of 5G connectivity is another […]
Satellite operator SES has received FCC permission to expand its wholly-owned subsidiary O3b satellite constellation. The FCC permit allows SES to significantly “supercharge” its existing constellation of 16 MEO satellites and their operations over the USA and beyond. The authorisation opens significant additional frequencies to SES for use in its non-geostationary (NGSO) constellation and enables […]
Sky Italia is following its UK sister operation and is expanding its OTT fibre-based package of channels. Sky Italia will now work with Telecom Italia (TIM) and other telcos. A report from equity analysts at Deutsche Bank says this is a negative report for Eutelsat given that Sky Italia is their largest single client and […]