Vodafone has launched a low cost convergent package called Vodafone One Light for €45.05 a month. The package includes symmetrical optic fibre at speed of up to 50 Mbps, a mobile line with 200 minutes of calls, 3GB of data and Chat Pass. Subscribers will also be able to enjoy the Vodafone TV Total package […]
Passengers on airlines travelling over North America on jets equipped with Global Eagle Entertainment’s in-flight equipment will shortly get an even better experience. Global Eagle has tripled its Ku-band capacity on the SES-15 satellite and in particular the craft’s high-throughput beams to enable the delivery of high-speed broadband and a wide range of inflight communications […]
Over half of UK households (56 per cent) spend more time on the Internet (including streaming) than watching TV, up from 49 per cent in 2016, according to findings from consultancy firm EY’s latest annual digital home survey of 2,500 UK consumers. This is the first time
Ofcom has published its quarterly data on the volume of consumer complaints it has received against major providers of telecoms and pay-TV services. The latest report covers the three-month period from July to September 2017 (Q3), and includes complaints made about providers of home broadband, landline telephone, pay-monthly mobile and pay-TV services. There was a […]
India’s Reliance Jio wireless telco is already massive and is imminently expected to report that it has been profitable for the quarter-year to December 31st. However, a timely report from Moody’s Investor Services says the cellular company could invest as much as $23 billion over the next three-to-four years to expand its ‘Voice over LTE’ […]
Saudi Arabia-based Arabsat has launched a new division, Arabsat Expand. The satellite operator is linking with Swedish broadband service provider Forsway and its Hybrid Router technology. The service covers the Middle East, Africa and Southern Europe, and offers extremely competitive access to broadband-by-satellite. The agreement will see Forsway’s router, ODIN, at a total kit cost […]
Broadcast and communications technology specialist Ericsson has been selected by Canadian multiplay telco Bell Canada to power its next generation multiscreen TV services. Ericsson’s MediaFirst TV Platform solution will enable Bell to offer an enhanced, personalised and converged multiscreen TV experience to its more than 1.5 million Fibe TV and Alt TV subscribers in Canada. […]
Vodafone and Huawei have conducted a successful field trial of Fixed Access Network Slicing. The virtual access network solution partitions a physical fibre to the home (FTTH) network into multiple virtual network slices, creating multi-tenancy virtualisation of the access network. This gives flexibility and full control for different operations teams (be they from different departments […]
BT Consumer is now offering a 100 megabits per second (Mbps) speed guarantee for its new Ultrafast Fibre broadband packages. BT is launching two new Ultrafast Fibre packages with speeds of up to 152Mbps and up to 314Mbps, both with a speed guarantee of 100Mbps. Customers who sign up for either package will get compensation […]
Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3.7 trillion (€3 trillion) in 2018, an increase of 4.5 per cent from 2017, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. “Global IT spending growth began to turn around in 2017, with continued growth expected over the next few years. However, uncertainty looms as organisations consider the potential impacts […]