Analyst: Smart lifespaces key to unlocking 5G revenue
Telecoms firms are being urged to resegment their market and understand what’s happening in the household in order to optimise their opportunities in the New Normal and accelerate time to…
Plume, Technicolor digital in-home experiences partnership
Smart Home Services specialist Plume and the Connected Home Division of media and entertainment technologist Technicolor are collaborating to expand rapidly the availability of advanced Smart Home Services to broadband…
Forecast: Home networking shipments to drop 1% in 2020
Global home networking unit shipments are only expected to decline by 1 per cent in 2020, dipping from 193.9 million worldwide to 192.1 million, according to forecasts from Dell’Oro Group.…
Smart speaker BBC news for locked-down Leicester
As part of a plan to offer local area updates from across the UK to smart speaker users, the BBC has expedited the launch of a news service into the…
Forecast: 20 connected devices per US home by 2025
Parks Associates research finds US broadband households have an average of 12 connected devices, which will increase to 20 by 2025, creating opportunities for service providers and manufacturers to deploy…
Plume Smart Home Services for Liberty Global
Liberty Global has expanded its relationship with Smart Home Services specialist Plume to give consumers more control over devices connected to their home network. Liberty Global will roll out Smart…
Irdeto Trusted Home boost for IoT Security
Consumer demand for IoT devices is growing rapidly as they look to make the most of connectivity and the smart home. However, the increase in IoT devices also increases the…
ruwido drives personalisation
Input device and interaction mechanism specialist ruwido is rethinking the remote control. Instead of a device with a button to turn on the TV, the future remote control is about…
CommScope, Altice France Smart Media Device
Communications and media technology provider ARRIS (now part of CommScope via acquisition) has confirmed that multiplay operator Altice France is collaborating with CommScope to bring a personalised connected home experience…
Analyst: WiFi dominates in-home net connectivity
The success of Wi-Fi technology is confirmed in new research from Strategy Analytics showing that nearly five billion home Wi-Fi devices are now in use around the world. Furthermore, the…
netgem.tv integrates Amazon Alexa Video Skill APIs
Internet TV streaming service netgem.tv has integrated Amazon Alexa Video Skill APIs into its TV boxes, which it says simplifies the viewer experience by making content searchable and controllable by…
RDK deployments top 50m
RDK Management has shared details about the adoption of RDK open source software used to power customer-premises equipment (CPE) from video and broadband services providers worldwide. “Service providers around the…
Analyst: Voice command use grows
Consumer survey findings from IHS Markit reveal that 22 per cent of Internet users across four markets – the US, UK, Australia and India – use the available voice-command features…
Virgin Media launches Intelligent WiFi
UK multiplay telco Virgin Media has announced a series of new WiFi updates that it says will give millions of its customers the UK’s fastest widely available broadband speeds in…
Deloitte: Smart speakers fastest-growing connected device
Business advisory firm Deloitte predicts that smart speakers – Internet-connected speakers with integrated digital assistants – will be the fastest-growing connected device in 2019, with 164 million units to be…
Telekom Slovenije unveils NEO platform
Slovenian multiplay operator Telekom Slovenije has launched NEO, the next generation of home entertainment that integrates an open, secure, cloud-connected, state-of-the-art smart home solution, that also supports pay-TV services, gaming…