The worldwide pay-TV market surpassed more than 900 million subscribers in 1Q 2015, representing 48 per cent penetration – the market is likely to grow steadily over the next five years, mainly boosted by emerging markets, according to pay-TV market data from ABI Research, who suggest that half of the world’s households will have access […]
After 16 days and 181 rounds, the spectrum auction for mobile broadband has concluded. All three companies, Telefónica Deutschland, Telekom Deutschland and Vodafone, were successful in bidding for spectrum in line with their business models: Undertaking Amount of spectrum Award price Telefónica Deutschland GmbH & Co. OHG 700 MHz: 900 MHz: 1800 MHz: 2 x 10 MHz 2 x 10 MHz 2 x 10 MHz € 1,198,238,000 Telekom […]
France’s telecoms regulator ARCEP has revealed details of its proposed allocation plans for the freed-up 700 MHz band, which will see 2×30 MHz of spectrum offered to mobile operators to enable them to keep pace with increases in consumption, with the Government deeming it vital that they be allocated new frequency bands, and particularly bands […]
Telecoms provider Lebara, best known for calling plans to enable migrant communities to connect, has launched Lebara Play, which aims to bridge the content gap by providing a new entertainment service for migrants. The service claims to be the only multi-ethnic entertainment service bringing together free and premium, fully-licensed content in 13 languages in one […]
The Spanish Competition watchdog, CNMC, has imposed a fine of €324,000 on the TV group Mediaset, operator of Tele 5 and Cuatro, among other channels, for breaking the TV laws for advertising breaks. Mediaset has been fined for inappropiate advertising in one of its most successful programmes Salvame. The fine is the latest in its […]
ARRIS’s acquisition of Pace created the largest set-top manufacturer, with 22 per cent worldwide market share of the set-top box market. ARRIS is about three times larger than most competitors including EchoStar, Technicolor, Cisco, and Humax. Set-top semiconductor leader
ITU has established the overall roadmap for the development of 5G mobile and defined the term it will apply to it as “IMT-2020”. With the finalidation of its work on the “Vision” for 5G systems at a meeting of ITU-R Working Party 5D in San Diego, California, ITU has now defined the overall goals, process […]
The Palestine Authority on June 18th launched a new TV channel, Palestine 48. The channel is targeting Israel’s Arab minority residents, some 20 per cent of the population, and will be broadcast via satellite. However, the plan immediately came under fire from Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said that he had instructed Israel’s Communications […]
As the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup enters into the knockout stages, figures show that people are tuning in to watch the growing brand of football across Europe on Eurosport, with 33.8 million different people already watching the tournament on the two channels at the mid-way point. “We are only just coming out of the […]
SpaceX, founded by PayPal billionaire Elon Musk, is working hard to recover and reuse its Falcon-9 rocket launchers. It has had two ‘near misses’ when the returning rocket almost made it to the floating recovery landing stage. But ‘almost’ is not good enough. But besides Mr Musk there’s at least one other key individual who […]