Sky Broadband customers are to get access to free, unlimited and high-speed WiFi at thousands of public places across the UK through new Sky “WiFi Hotspots from The Cloud”. Located in popular and useful locations such as in transport hubs, shopping centres and coffee shops, WiFi Hotspots from The Cloud will allow eligible Sky […]
SES and SkyGate, an Internet service provider in the Middle East, announced they have signed a five year contract for the distribution of SES’s successful satellite broadband service SES Broadband, formerly known as ASTRA2Connect, in the Middle East. SkyGate markets SES Broadband to end customers and businesses in the region, offering download speeds of up […]
Asheridge Communications is extending its reach further into operators Headends, with a range custom splitting and combining panels. Created during close consultations between Asheridge Engineers and operators, this range of high performance modular passives can be adapted to almost any configuration in the network. Potential examples of applications are: test point, splitting and combining, […]
Sunrise Telecom, a provider of test, monitoring and workflow management solutions for cable, telecom, wireless operators, and equipment manufacturers, has expanded its portfolio of network test and measurement solutions with the launch of the packetWORX IPTV Suite. The Sunrise Telecom packetWORX Suite, which includes the server-based packetWORX IPTV Monitoring system and packetWORX IPTV Analyzer application […]
German cable network operator Kabel Deutschland is weighing up competitor Tele Columbus as a potential takeover target, German newspaper FAZ has reported. Kabel Deutschland are studying Tele Columbus’s accounts, the newspaper reports. Two years ago the company nearly collapsed under the burden of its debts but was able to continue following a partial debt waiver […]
UK Mobile network 3 has warned is ready to take legal action against Ofcom and derail the already long-delayed 4G spectrum auction. The sell-off, which could raise as much as £4 billion (€4.8bn) for the Treasury, is scheduled for early 2013. 3, the newest and smallest mobile network in the UK with a 10 per […]
Commuters using London Overground train stations are set to get 60 minutes of free Wi-Fi each day thanks to a deal between the London Overground Rail Operations Limited and BSkyB subsidiary The Cloud. The rollout across 56 stations will begin this summer and is scheduled to be completed before the end of the year. Users […]
The evidence is mounting that even though cable TV customers are not cutting the cord en masse, they are cutting back. Research from Altman Vilandrie & Co, suggests that about 20 per cent of consumers now shave pay TV services, spending progressively less on their packages as more of what they want to watch becomes […]
According to a report from TDG, eight in ten US broadband households now use a home network, meaning they are able to access a growing variety of net-based video and applications on a growing number of devices. Nearly 40 per cent of home network routers are now located in the primary living room, more than […]
O2 has voiced its anger at Ofcom for giving Everything Everywhere provisional approval to rollout a 4G network. O2 has said that Ofcom is contradicting itself by allowing Everything Everywhere to rollout 4G using its 1800MHz spectrum before its rivals. O2 believes this gives Everything Everywhere an unfair advantage which goes against Ofcom’s aim to […]