The US Federal Communications Commission’s Restoring Internet Freedom Order will take effect on June 11th, returning the regulation of Internet service providers to what the FCC describes as “the bipartisan, light-touch approach that fostered rapid Internet growth, openness, and freedom for nearly 20 years”. “I strongly support a free and open Internet,” declared FCC Chairman […]
BT is preparing to cut 13,000 staff over the next three years and move out of its London HQ after nearly 150 years, as it seeks to cut £1.5 billion (€1.71bn) in costs after a difficult 18 months. The latest job cuts and restructuring come as the company delivered a 3 per cent drop in […]
Speaking during a post-results call with industry analysts, Charlie Ergen (founder/chairman of Dish Network and EchoStar) is backing how satellite could help the deployment of 5G services. While initially focused on the US, he also said that combining Dish with EchoStar, “as they used to be” was also possible. Dish TV has just under 11 […]
As TV Connect, the IP video distribution conference and expo, got under way in London, quality of experience monitoring specialist Witbe took the opportunity to announce the grand opening of a UK office. The new office will be a subsidiary in the UK. Already actively involved in the UK for many years through different partners, […]
In a transaction that it says accelerates its converged communications strategy through in-market consolidation in its largest market, Germany, and in its Central and Eastern European (CEE) markets, Vodafone has agreed to acquire Liberty Global’s operations in Germany, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania for an enterprise value of €18.4 billion. This is expected to […]
Ofcom’s annual Home Broadband Performance report reveals the actual broadband speeds that UK residential consumers experienced in November 2017. This study uses a representative panel of over 4,000 volunteers across the UK who have connected monitoring units to their routers. Findings from the report include: Average broadband speeds have increased significantly. Average download speeds rose […]
Liberty Global has posted its Q1 2018 financial results, revealing its strongest quarterly revenue growth in nearly five years for the three months to March 31st 2018. However, the international cable group also saw a sharp decrease in subscriber growth. Operating income was up 17.5 per cent to $493.1 million (€415m) whist the cable group […]
UPC, the Swiss cable operator, reported it achieved above-average growth in the business customer segment once again in the first quarter of 2018 (+12.6 per cent revenue growth compared with the same quarter last year). In contrast, the residential customer segment is still operating in a fiercely contested Swiss market and took a slight downward […]
Panasonic Avionics has agreed to pay some $280 million in an agreement with the US Department of Justice (DoJ) in order to settle criminal and civil allegations over falsified bribery payments to Chinese and other Asian agents. The DoJ and Panasonic had agreed a Deferred Prosecution Agreement over the bribery allegations. Panasonic Avionics is a […]
Magnitude Space, recently renamed as Hiber Global, has received approval from the Radiocommunications Agency Netherlands to launch a fleet of up to 50 small nano-satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine to Machine (M2M) applications. Hiber has its R&D in Delft (Netherlands) and its HQ in Amsterdam. It was […]