Spanish telco Telefónica aims to replicate Spain’s Movistar model in Brazil through its massive deployment of optic fibre. The company intends to invest €6.6 billion in the country between this year and 2020, out of which €622 million will be dedicated to extending optic fibre. The president of Telefónica Brazil, Eduardo Navarro, said that optic […]
Six of the world’s leading satellite industry associations have established the Global Satellite Coalition (GSC), an international group through which targeted initiatives will be coordinated and implemented with the combined support of hundreds of member companies based in every world region. The coalition will drive industry priorities with one voice, unlocking opportunities for industry growth […]
Satellite Solutions Worldwide Group, a global player in the delivery of alternative super-fast broadband services, has announces that Quickline Communications (QL), a wholly owned subsidiary of SSW, has been awarded 5G and TV whitespace field trials funded by Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK), part of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, responsible for delivering […]
French telco Iliad missed market forecasts for its 2017 profit increase due to losses related to its planned launch in Italy. The company, majority-owned by its billionaire founder Xavier Niel, said annual sales rose 5.6 per cent from last year to around €4.9 billion in line with forecasts. However, its 2017 consolidated core earnings of […]
US pay-TV revenues peaked in 2015, at $101.71 billion (€82.51bn), according to the eighth edition of the North America Pay TV Forecasts report from Digital TV Research. A $26.58 billion decline (26 per cent) is forecast between 2015 and 2023 to take the total down to $75.13 billion. Cable TV revenues peaked in 2010 at […]
AT&T and Time Warner have argued in court documents filed on March 9th that competition with online media players would prevent prices from rising if the proposed $85.4 billion (€78.5bn) merger is allowed to proceed. “HBO faces greater competition than ever from other premium channels like Showtime and Starz, and from subscriber video on-demand services […]
Rupert Pearce, CEO of London-based Inmarsat, told investors on March 9th that the satellite operator would cut its dividend from 54 cents (in 2016) to 33.6 cents for the past year, to permit the company to place resources behind its growing In-Flight communications and entertainment business. Inmarsat warned that next year’s dividend (that is for […]
Deutsche Telekom’s vectoring upgrades are continuing with vigour in 2018: as of today, almost 200,000 more households in 209 cities and communities can now connect to the Internet with up to 100 Mbps (and a minimum of 50 Mbps) download and 40 Mbps upload. These include Bochum-Wattenscheid, with 13,300 households, Langen (Hessen) with 3,900 households, […]
One of the difficulties is coping with announcement of new satellite constellations is coming up with a superlative to describe a really large number when describing gigantic plans. The latest news, that a Chinese organisation wants to put up 300 satellites, each operating in low Earth orbit (LEO) to provide “global communications”, definitely puts the […]
Media Distillery has won the Project Kairos Award at the Cable Congress in Dublin. Roland Sars, CEO of Media Distillery received the prize from Caroline van Weede Managing Director and Matthias Kurth, Executive Chairman at Cable Europe, the organiser of Cable Europe. The professional Jury, led by Neil Illingworth from Virgin Media, spoke highly of […]