iiNet chief technology officer Mark Dioguardi has admitted that Netflix has caused problems for some customers and revealed it is accounts for 25 per cent of the telco’s total Internet traffic less than a month after its Australian launch. Before it’s official launch in the country, Netflix made up just 3 per cent of iiNets total downloads, Drioguardi said. That figure rose to […]
Arabsat’s deputy chairman (and Kuwaiti ministry of Communications undersecretary) Hamid Al-Qattan, praised Arabsat’s commercial performance over the past year at the operator’s Board Meeting and General Assembly held in Amman, Jordan. Al-Qattan said Arabsat’s results were “impressive and successful”, adding that the organisation’s financial and administrative reports discussed during the meeting had reflected its distinctive […]
Only one in ten UK broadband users say they could live without access to the Internet, according to 2,000 respondents surveyed by broadband, TV and mobile comparison site Cable.co.uk. Just 10 per cent of respondents said they could live without broadband indefinitely, as opposed to 21 per cent who said they could last a day or […]
An April 1st story in South Africa swept the country like wild fire. The untrue story claimed that South Africa was to abandon its planned switchover from analogue to digital TV. Now that the bills for the conversion process are coming in, it is clear that many locals wish the April Fools hoax was in […]
now TV has acquired the exclusive Hong Kong TV rights to broadcast the fight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao live in HD. This showdown is one of the most anticipated boxing events of recent times and takes place in Las Vegas on May 2nd (May 3rd in Hong Kong) between two of the best […]
Ericsson’s Media Vision 2020 predicts that the convergence of media and telecoms will result in 50 billion connected devices globally by the year 2020, ushering in a new era of entertainment and connectivity. To address the creation, delivery and distribution challenges associated with the increasingly multiscreen and multiplatform driven media value chain, Ericsson is introducing […]
Channel 4 is to set up a new publishing arm in Glasgow which aims to “support and showcase” the work of the mobile games industry. All 4 Games will be led by the broadcaster’s current games commissioning editor, Colin Macdonald. It plans to build a new network of both Channel 4-funded mobile games and games […]
Norway’s Ministry of Culture has revealed plans to switch off FM radio across the country in 2017, making it the first country to axe conventional broadcasts. The staged shut-off (which is scheduled for January 11th that year) is focused on improving channel choice and quality, according to the government. While there are just five national […]
High-speed fibre broadband is being rolled out to a further 200 communities across Scotland over the summer, many in rural areas. Up to 145,000 homes in Aberdeenshire, Angus, Ayrshire, Argyll and Bute, the Highlands and Shetland will have the chance to access faster connections. The roll-out is part of the £410 million (€568m) Digital Scotland […]
Amino’s latest range of IPTV/OTT devices now support YouTube on TV – allowing consumers to view videos from the online video portal full screen on their televisions. The A150/A550 and Live Advanced Media Platform device series both completed certification approval recently and will now include the YouTube on TV HTML5 application. An Amino […]