Multinational cable and telecommunications company Altice, founded by telecoms entrepreneur Patrick Drahi, has entered into the final agreements with Vivendi regarding the acquisition of the 20 per cent stake Vivendi owns in France’s second-largest telco Numericable-SFR for a price of €40 per share. The transaction carried out via its subsidiary Altice France, and Numericable-SFR, follows […]
DOCOMO, a personalised mobile solutions provider for smarter living, has announced that its joint 5G outdoor trial with Ericsson achieved a maximum data transmission speed of over 4.5Gbps using the high-frequency 15GHz spectrum band on February 17th. This is the first phase of trials designed to pave the way for DOCOMO’s deployment of a commercial […]
Quickplay – the global expert in powering TV to any device – has confirmed plans to integrate LTE Broadcast capabilities into its managed video platform. The solution will allow global mobile operators who are using a comprehensive LTE Broadcast solution provided by Qualcomm Technologies, a subsidiary of Qualcomm, to deliver video with enhanced, differentiated viewing […]
The US’s Federal Communications Commission has followed the lead of President Barack Obama and voted to impose tough new rules for net neutrality, introducing a measure that seems sure to bring a court challenge. The vote – as anticipated along a party-line 3-2 vote – backed Chairman Tom Wheeler’s proposal to reclassify broadband Internet as […]
French MVNO Virgin Mobile has launched its first quadruple play offer, which combines SFR’s triple play ADSL box with a 20GHz 4G mobile service. Following its acquisition at the end of 2014, Virgin Mobile is already benefiting from Numericable-SFR’s fixed and mobile networks, as well as capitalising on the innovations of the SFR box. Virgin […]
Record-breaking speeds have been achieved during tests of 5G data connections. Researchers at the University of Surrey’s 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC) managed one terabit per second (Tbps) – many thousands of times faster than current data connections. The head of the 5GIC said he hoped to demonstrate the technology to the public in 2018. Ofcom […]
Market share for top two tablet vendors Apple and Samsung fell to 43 per cent as total shipment volume growth slowed to 6.6 per cent in 2014. According to two new Strategy Analytics’ Tablet & Touchscreen Strategies (TTS) reports, growth is likely to continue along this trajectory but leading tablet vendors cannot rely on inertia […]
Strategy Analytics has released data points from its latest Mobile World Market Metrics report. The data reveals
Findings included in the interim edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report reveal the top five apps in a given country dominate in terms of mobile traffic generated on smart devices. In the countries illustrated in the report – the US, South Korea, and Spain – they account for around two-thirds of all app traffic over […]
French telco Orange, is to invest €400 million in the deployment of its LTE network over the next three years, €100 million in 2015 making a total of €1.5 billion since the start of its operations in 2006. The company aims to take LTE services to 85 per cent of the population in 1,300 cities […]