Synamedia, the independent video software provider, has expanded its senior team with the appointment of industry professionals Mark Billinge as VP of Operations & Services Product Management from MENA operator OSN, and Avidan Lamdan as VP of Platform Product Management from Kaltura. Alongside Synamedia’s other product management heads, Billinge and Lamdan will be responsible for […]
France’s electronic communications Arcep is publishing has published its scoreboard for the fixed broadband and superfast broadband market (rollouts and subscriptions) in France as of the end of December 2018. This quarter confirms the ongoing progress in FTTH subscription numbers and rollouts. SUBSCRIPTIONS: Annual growth in the number of superfast access subscriptions reaches two million, […]
Basque-Country cable operator Euskaltel made a profit record of €62.8 million in 2018, up 26.6 per cent versus the previous year. Total revenues grew by 11.2 per cent to €691.6 million, with €463.3 million, up 11.3 per cent, stemming from residentials and €189.9 million from enterprises. EBITDA stood at €336.4 million, up 9.6 per cent. […]
Maxar Technologies, which owns the Space Systems/Loral satellite building division, suffered net losses for the year to December 31st of $1.26 billion on group revenues of $2.14 billion. As a consequence, Maxar is laying off some 250 jobs from its 6100 overall workforce. The job losses are spread over Maxar’s Canadian MDA robotic arm business […]
Ottawa-based satellite operator Telesat, the world’s fourth-largest, is moving some assets around in preparation for its planned multi-billion dollar constellation of Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) craft. The news emerged hot on the heels of Telesat’s financial numbers for 2018, which showed a 3 per cent fall in overall revenue to C$903 million (about €584m). However, […]
Broadband Forum has completed and published the second code release of its Open Broadband – Broadband Access Abstraction (OB-BAA) project. Release 2.0 of OB-BAA builds on the functionalities enabled by Releases 1.0 and 1.1, which were demonstrated to wide-acclaim at Broadband World Forum last October. Taking accelerated migration to cloud-based access networks to the next […]
Spain’s two largest private TV companies, Mediaset and Atresmedia, experienced mixed fortunes in 2018 in terms of financial results. Mediaset increased its profits by 1.4 per cent to €200 million, whereas Atresmedia saw its fall by 37.9 per cent to €88.2 million. The ad crisis and the fall in revenues accordingly are the main reasons […]
YouTube has confirmed it will switch off comments on almost all videos featuring under-18s, in an attempt to “better protect children and families”. A number of brands stopped advertising on YouTube after discovering that paedophiles and groomers were leaving predatory comments on videos featuring children. The Google-owned platform had originally disabled comments on videos that […]
Pan-African pay-TV company MultiChoice was listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange on February 27th and investors saw an immediate rise of 16 per cent in value. MultiChoice has been spun off as a separate business by technology conglomerate Naspers. “We are happy with where the share opened and how it is trading,” MultiChoice chief financial […]
Suggesting the deal creates a software-based security and analytics powerhouse, security solutions specialist Inside Secure has announced the successful completion of the acquisition of content security specialist Verimatrix. According to Inside Secure, the combination accelerates the company’s strategic roadmap, offering an improved value proposition for its customers with an expanded reach to securely transform connected […]