ShortsTV, the global short film network, returned to US cinemas over the weekend with the release of the 16th annual Oscar Nominated Short Films. The theatrical presentation of the Live Action, Animation and Documentary short film nominees for this year’s Academy Awards is available in over 200 screens across 50+ theatrical markets including New York […]
With business hours consumption leading the way, US broadband upstream traffic growth during 2020 was 350 per cent of historic rates, according to an OVBI Special Report issued by OpenVault, a source of SaaS-based revenue and network improvement solutions and data-driven insights for the broadband industry. Upstream usage grew 63 per cent – from 19 GB […]
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has initiated an outreach programme direct to US consumers and asking them to share their experiences about their access to broadband. A new webpage explains the FCC’s programme and provides direct links to consumer resources including a new “share your broadband experience” option. “Far too many Americans are left behind […]
The US Space Force has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to the world’s emerging Low Earth orbiting (LEO) satellite operators (and would-be operators) for guidance on how the Space Force might buy broadband LEO services in the future. The Space Force’s Commercial Satellite Communications Office, acts as a centralised operation which acquires satellite-based communications […]
TV has looked vastly different during these past 12 months. Networks and brands have had to adjust to the changing environment around them as production delays created programming gaps and live events disappeared, reports TV ad measurement and attribution specialist iSpot. With audiences stuck at home – especially in those early months – dayparts also […]
The eight top US MSOs collectively added 4.8 million fixed broadband customers in 2020 and now control approximately 69 per cent of the US fixed internet market. Leichtman Research Group says the 4.86 million total fixed broadband customers added last year by the 16 largest providers, accounting for 96 per cent of the US market, […]
As millions of Americans sheltered in place and shifted to working from home and remote learning during the pandemic, ongoing research from Comscore found that overall in-home data usage levels throughout 2020 remained significantly higher than in 2019. Throughout the first several of months of Covid-related lockdowns, data consumption from Comscore Connected Home custom reporting […]
BroadbandNow’s quarterly The State of Broadband in America study for the third quarter of this year further advocates for a new definition for broadband internet – increasing download speeds to 100 Mbps and upload speeds to 25 Mbps – by highlighting the state’s with the most and least access to those level of speeds. Currently, […]
According to The Diffusion Group — a division of Screen Engine/ASI — by 2025 more than half of US broadband households will live without a MVPD (multichannel video programming distributon) service. During this time, pay-TV services will lose 36 per cent of their 2020 subscriber base, up roughly four-fold from the prior 5-year period (-9.5 […]
The US Federal Communications Commission is beginning its first auction of licences for prime, mid-band spectrum suitable for 5G. The auction will offer county-based Priority Access Licences in the 3550-3650 MHz band, which will encourage the rapid deployment of next-generation wireless networks in the band. The FCC says this is a critical step in freeing […]