Thaicom has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Huawei Technologies and Starcor Media Technologies for the development of an OTT platform in Thailand. The companies have partnered to create value-added services for the next generation OTT platform for enterprise, educational, government and telecom sectors in Thailand. Under the MOU the companies agreed to develop […]
Gigabit speeds are around the corner for eligible homes and businesses in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and the Gold Coast. The news comes as a result of Australia’s national broadband network operator nbn’s trials of DOCSIS 3.1 technology on its Hybrid Fibre Coaxial (HFC) network – previously Telstra’s pay-TV cable. In lab trials of […]
Last week, signatories met face-to-face for the inaugural meeting of the Steering Committee of the Canadian Energy Efficiency Voluntary Agreement for Set-Top Boxes (CEEVA) in Toronto. Representatives from each of the signatories as well as Natural Resources Canada and supporting organisations CableLabs and the Consumer Technology Association were in attendance. The parties met to further the […]
SES and MultTV have announced a multi-year capacity agreement which will enable MultTV’s ISP customers to deliver TV content to their Internet subscribers via IP. MultTV, a Brazilian communications company that specialises in providing video services to smaller regional Internet Service Providers, will use C-band capacity on SES-6 to transmit a mix of approximately 60 […]
Flowplayer, a privately held company in Finland specialising in online video players, and Lemonwhale, a privately held company in Sweden specialising in video platforms, announced that they will merge. The merger creates an online video platform and player proposition with the best performance and end-user experience in the market, and a global leader in deployed […]
The Associated Press has announced a content collaboration with Spectee, the Tokyo-based online news agency that specialises in curating and publishing user-generated content in real time. All AP Video Hub clients will be able to view Spectee’s video news content, which includes real-time news and entertainment events in Japan and worldwide. This adds a new […]
Digital TV Research forecasts that Netflix will have 128 million subscribers by 2022, up by 44 per cent from 89 million at end-2016. The Netflix Forecasts report estimates that the number of international subscribers will exceed US ones by early 2018. Simon Murray, Principal Analyst at Digital TV Research, said:
Italian pay-TV platform Mediaset Premium has formally approved a capital increase to cover its 2016 losses, reports local news agency Radiocor. However, unlike previous years, shareholder Telefonica, which has a 11 per cent share, abstained. The shareholders approved the 2016 financial statements, which ended in the red for €384 million, negatively impacting equity (for €142 […]
Atresmedia Internacional, the International division of Spain’s Atresmedia, operator of Antena 3 TV and La Sexta among others, has reached 50 million homes internationally with its three channels Antena 3 TV Internacional, Atreseries Internacional and Hola TV. A potential audience of 200 million viewers can now watch these channels. Antena 3 is dedicated to current […]
Four important Arab nations have cut all diplomatic and other links with Qatar accusing the phenomenally wealthy country of “financing terror and undermining security,” according to the FT. The report will present significant problems for global news channel Al Jazeera as well as its sports offshoot beIN Sports. Saudi Arabia, long having had an antagonistic […]