Sky Italia is planning to launch 4K transmissions in HDR (High Dynamic Range) in 2017 which it says will enable a “qualitative leap” of image quality, comparable to what happened during the transition from SD to HD. In addition Sky Italia will broadcast all 51 matches of the UEFA Euro 2016 football tournament in Super […]
ICT standards body ETSI has unveiled a new Industry Specification Group, the Mobile and Broadcast Convergence (MBC) ISG. ETSI MBC ISG will explore the deployment and business models of converged networks from the perspectives of all interested parties, including broadcasters, satellite, mobile and terrestrial broadcast network operators, content owners and providers, network infrastructure vendors and […]
Last week, satellite operator raised €900 million in order to complete the purchase of mini-satellite constellation O3b. At least one investment bank is asking why SES has moved on O3b now, and so soon after the significant profits warning from Eutelsat. “With the Eutelsat profit warning just 2 weeks ago pointing to dramatic change in […]
Back in 2010, private equity fund Permira helped local management buy Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) for around $200 million. Now it is reported that Permira is looking to exit its investment. ABS was founded by Thomas Choi in 2006, and he is still CEO. ABS now has six satellites in orbit, and another scheduled for […]
Satellite operator SES’s latest Satellite Monitor study in Ghana indicates that it has increased its technical reach in the country to two million TV homes. This signifies an increase of over 18 per cent TV homes in Ghana compared to 2014, which brings SES’s overall household reach in Ghana to more than 35 per cent […]
In an attempt to avoid subscribers from cancelling the service in Summer, Vodafone has decided to extended its free football promotion offer until the end of the year. Vodafone is sending letters to its subscribers advising them that the current €6 per month offer for its football package will be into force until 2017. The […]
Two Boeing-built satellites are being readied for launch at Cape Canaveral aboard a single SpaceX rocket. Both satellites are all-electric craft and will use on-board electric thrusters to reach orbit. Eutelsat 117 West B along with its co-passenger ABS 2A are scheduled to lift-off during daylight hours at 10.30am (EDT) on June 16 from Cape […]
An Indonesian bank is making an unusual purchase: a brand new satellite that it will use exclusively for improved connectivity across its 10,600 branch network across the huge Indonesian archipelago. Headquartered in Jakarta, BRIsat, owned by PT. Bank Rakyat Indonesia Tbk (BRI), will also serve about 240,000 electronic terminals over the more than 8000 inhabited […]
TiVo subsidiary Cubiware, a provider of software for Digital TV devices and systems is partnering with set-top box system-on-chip specialist ALi Corporation in which it will integrate the full-featured CubiTV Hybrid Middleware on ALi STB chipsets, with the intention of bringing highly competitive solutions to operators around the world. The joint solution will enable pay-TV […]
SpaceX successfully launched a satellite on the evening of Friday May 27 from Cape Canaveral, and then eight minutes later brought the 15-storey first-stage booster portion of the rocket safely back to its floating ‘Of Course I still Love You’ barge. Indeed, the video of the landing (from an on-board camera) is a quite spectacular […]