British media and cellular transmission company Arqiva is reportedly planning to sell itself. Sky News is reporting that Arqiva is close to hiring bankers to advise on a potential sale. The business employs more than 2,100 people and carries the signals and satellite uplinks for many UK broadcasters, as well as owning some 8,000 cellular […]
Dror Ginzberg, CEO and co-founder of short-form social video creation platform Wochit, has shared his five top predictions for digital video in 2017: Streaming video companies like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon will look more and more like production studios or even OTT providers. This evolution is now both driven by and a driver of consumer […]
ITU’s annual Measuring the Information Society Report, reports that the world is getting more and more connected and reveals that there are still huge investment opportunities for the private sector to connect the unconnected. The Measuring the Information Society Report provides global data and analysis on the state of global Information and communications technology (ICT) […]
Video services provider Simplestream has been selected by A+E Networks UK to provide TV Everywhere distribution services for its new UK free-to-air channel Blaze. Blaze is a free-to-air channel that debuted in the UK and Ireland on 20 September 2016 on Freeview and Sky with programming that includes American Restoration, The First 48, Mountain Men, […]
UK comms regulator Ofcom has set out plans to release valuable new airwaves to meet the growing demand for mobile broadband. Next year, Ofcom will auction 190 MHz of spectrum in the 2.3 GHz and 3.4 GHz bands – an increase of just under a third of the total mobile spectrum currently available. This represents […]
Connected consumers across APAC are watching more video content than ever before, according to the findings from Kantar TNS’s Connected Life study into the behaviours of Internet users across the globe. The study shows that people are consuming a wide variety of online video – from online TV or subscription services like Netflix, to free […]
Licensing body MPEG LA has announced the availability of the MPEG-DASH (DASH) Patent Portfolio Licence. The joint licence includes patents that are essential to the MPEG Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) standard, which enables high quality streaming of media content over HTTP to be dynamically adapted to changing network conditions to provide smooth, high […]
Futuresource has published findings from the 6th wave of Kids Tech, its consumer research programme specifically focused on children aged 3 through to 16 across the US, UK, Germany and China, providing ongoing monitoring of their digital media consumption and its influence on their habits and interests. This study captures the status quo of how […]
The latest edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report forecasts that there will be 550 million 5G subscriptions in 2022. North America will lead the way in uptake of 5G subscriptions, where a quarter of all mobile subscriptions are forecast to be for 5G in 2022. Asia Pacific will be the second fastest growing region for […]
The US multichannel segment produced a drop in third quarter video customers that was slightly worse year-over-year (YOY), according to analyst firm SNL Kagan. SNL Kagan estimates the combined cable, Direct-broadcast-satellite (DBS) and telco sectors lost 430,000 video customers during the period. DBS ended in positive territory, but telco again weighed heavily on the multichannel […]