Back on January 1st Intelsat adopted the ASC 606 accounting rules* which make absolute like-for-like comparisons with 2016’s numbers slightly difficult. This year’s Q1 numbers saw total revenue of $544 million, an increase of $5 million or 1 per cent as compared to the first quarter of 2017. Total revenue excluding the effects of ASC […]
A March 29th letter from Ericsson to the FCC called on the US regulator to make the 3.7-4.2 GHz band available for mobile broadband. Moreover, Ericsson asked that the FCC moves “quickly” saying that the bandwidth “is of vital importance in fulfilling the goal of ensuring that adequate low-, mid-, and high-band spectrum is available […]
Kantar Media, a global player in media intelligence, has published the second iteration of its annual DIMENSION report. The study reveals that while consumer attitudes towards advertising have stayed consistent over the last year, there remains an opportunity for marketers to improve creativity and holistic cross-platform measurement. DIMENSION explores the
Following Advanced-Television’s November 2017 revelation that it was looking for a buyer for its former NDS video software division, Cisco Videoscape, reports suggest that the unit will be sold back to its previous leading shareholder, Permira Securities, with the sale price reported to be up to $1 billion (€820 million). Cisco acquired NDS for some […]
Suggesting the move will create the only company with the network capacity needed to launch rapidly a nationwide 5G network with the breadth and depth critical to extend the USA’s global Internet leadership in the 5G era, US telcos T-Mobile US and Sprint Corporation are to merge in an all-stock transaction at a fixed exchange […]
The dominance of the Mediaset-Atresmedia duopoly – with over 85 per cent of the Spanish TV ad market and 50 per cent of audience ratings – is driving smaller DTT channels to bankruptcy with millions in losses and low ratings. Nationwide DTT channels such as Trece, DKiss and TEN have seen combined losses of €44 […]
Spacecom, which operates the AMOS fleet of satellites from Israel, has today (April 30th) notified the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange that the Israeli state is to buy a new communications satellite from Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI). The worrying news is that the notification says the new satellite will be positioned at 4 degrees West, which […]
The news that Europe (collectively its Parliament, Council and European Commission) is contemplating ruling that OTT platforms such as Amazon and Netflix must face tough new ‘made in Europe’ 30 per cent quotas, is infuriating. As we reported last week, and according to Vice-President for the Digital Single Market Andrus Ansip, the new rules “reflect […]
Last week’s Q1 results from satellite operator SES were encouraging and more or less on the nose in terms of expectations, but there’s a huge caveat. New CEO Steve Collar has only been in the job 22 days and is now conducting an internal review of all his divisions and departments. Previous CEO Karim Michel […]
Egypt’s Nilesat saw its 2017 net profits fall by some $5 million, from a 2016 position of $73,322,889 to $68,570,487 in the 12 months to December 31st. Cairo-based Nilesat held its Annual General Meeting on April 28th and declared that it would be paying a $0.60 per share distribution to shareholders. The main beneficiary is […]