Intelsat has confirmed that Intelsat 29e, the first of the Intelsat EpicNG high throughput satellites, is scheduled to launch on January 27th 2016, aboard an Arianespace Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. “This is an exciting time for our company, with Intelsat leading the way with new […]
As media viewing habits continue to trend away from traditional television and towards streaming video on mobile and Internet-connected devices, brands and publishers are striving to stay ahead of the tectonic shifts in behaviors and business models. Eager to match this demand, Verizon Digital Media Services is helping content owners seize emerging distribution and monetisation […]
Africa Market Briefing 2015 Read Advanced-Television’s Africa Market Briefing 2015 here.
Steven Kang, a senior staffer at Netflix and responsible for Global Originals & Future Technologies, says that all new content on Netflix is to be delivered in Ultra-HD as the means to future proof its output. Kang is in charge of production and post-production technical guidance and support for all Netflix Original series such as […]
Plans set out by the UK Government will help make sure that every home and business can have access to fast broadband by the end of the current Parliament in 2020. Speaking on November 9th, Prime Minister David Cameron will talk about the Government’s intention to put access to broadband on a similar footing as […]
The 10 leading pay-TV services in the US managed to maintain more of their subscribers over the third quarter of 2015 according to informitv’s Multiscreen Index. Their combined subscriber losses were lower than some analysts had anticipated. The top ten services in the US that report numbers recorded a total net loss of 128,400 subscribers […]
TiVo has surpassed 4 million international subscriptions through its traditional TiVo offering. According to TiVo, this represents an important milestone in its international growth and comes as the result of accelerated subscription growth in Europe through customers such as Virgin Media/Liberty Global in the UK, ONO/Vodafone in Spain, and Com Hem in Sweden – each […]
Ericsson and Cisco – two industry leaders in the development and delivery of networking, mobility, and cloud – have announced a global business and technology partnership to create the networks of the future. The multi-faceted relationship will offer customers the best of both companies: routing, data center, networking, cloud, mobility, management and control, and global […]
Telefónica had 2.5 million TV customers in Spain at the end of September, up 275,000 quarter-on-quarter and up 1.6 million compared with the same period last year. The company’s Movistar Fusión bundled offering had four million customers at the end of the period, accounting for close to 90 per cent of gross additions for the […]
Kuwait Projects Company (KIPCO) issued a statement on November 8th to deny local reports that it had sold its stake in pay-TV operator OSN to the Qatar Investment Authority. The statement appeared on the Kuwait Stock Exchange. However, while the reports may be rumour only it is well-known that KIPCO has been searching for a […]