Telefónica, the leading Spanish telco, is set to launch the O2 brand in the country this September, with a low-cost convergent package. With the launch, the company aims to compete with other low-cost convergent services from the likes of MasMovil, a firm that is increasingly gaining ground in the market to the detriment of the […]
Eurosport says it is taking its coverage of Grand Slam tennis to new heights when it launches a new channel exclusively for the French Open at Roland Garros with every match from the prestigious Philippe Chatrier centre court available in Ultra High Definition, for the very first time. The channel, available for the duration of […]
Spanish telco Telefónica has broken a new record by passing 20 million homes with FTTH – 70 per cent of all households in the country. The company – which claims to have the largest FTTH network in Europe – has completed the FTTH deployment in the country’s largest cities with 244,000km of cable and is […]
During 2017, broadband lines grew by 6.1 per cent compared to last year throughout Latin America, reaching 72.4 million connections. It is a similar growth rate to 2016 (6.3 per cent), according to Dataxis figures. DSL was still the most used technology with a market share of 48.1 per cent but it continued losing weight […]
The Kudelski Group, a specialist in digital security, and u blox, an expert in positioning and wireless communication technologies for the automotive, industrial and consumer markets, have announced the signing of an MOU to bring premium-grade security to IoT devices. Kudelski and u blox agreed to collaborate toward integrating the Kudelski IoT Security Suite into […]
Spanish telcos Telefónica, Orange and Vodafone are offering free faster FTTH speeds in an attempt to gain more subscribers. From today, Telefónica is doubling its speeds no extra cost for its 3.4 million FTTH customers, going from 50 Mbps to 100 Mbps and from 300 Mbps to 600 Mbps. Orange is increasing the Internet speeds […]
Findings from Leichtman Research Group indicate that the largest cable and telephone providers in the US – representing about 95 per cent of the market – acquired about 800,000 net additional broadband Internet subscribers in 1Q 2018. These top broadband providers now account for 96.5 million subscribers – with top cable companies having 62.2 million […]
Satellite operator Intelsat is leading a charge to see some of its C-band capacity used to help speed up 5G deployment in the US. Comments made by CEO Steve Spengler at J P Morgan’s Global Technology, Media and Communications conference in Boston have helped Intelsat’s share price drive to modern record high values. May 17th […]
More flexible and innovative approaches are needed in Australia to allow 5G mobile services and satellite-based services to co-exist, according to the nation’s communications satellite sector. The Satellite Services Working Group (SSWG) of Communications Alliance, the primary telecommunications industry body in Australia, in a Discussion Paper, calls for debate between Government, Regulators, Industry and other […]
The World Teleport Association (WTA) has released Satellite Operator Benchmarks 2018, the eighth report in its series that tracks, rates and compares the operational and commercial performance of satellite operators, as experienced by teleport operators, in order to strengthen the industry by driving self-improvement across all companies. Research for the report was conducted by Futuresource, […]