Advanced Television

Samsung VR partnerships with UFC, X Games

Samsung Electronics has announced VR Live Pass for its Gear VR platform – which will feature a line-up of  live entertainment partnerships with UFC, X Games and Live Nation. The VR Live Pass on Gear VR events will be available through the Samsung VR app in early June, enabling Gear VR users to watch live […]

May 31, 2017By Nik Roseveare

Global average connection speed rises 15%

Akamai Technologies, the cloud delivery platform, has released its First Quarter, 2017 State of the Internet Report. Based on data gathered from the Akamai Intelligent Platform, the report provides insight into key global statistics such as connection speeds, broadband adoption metrics, notable Internet disruptions, IPv4 exhaustion and IPv6 implementation. “Increases in connection

May 31, 2017

UK broadband tech reaches tipping point

The UK broadband market looked very different in terms of its technology base headline at the end of March 2017 than it did just three months earlier at the end of 2016. Having been dominated by DSL infrastructure, the country now has more subscribers to broadband services supplied over Docsis 3.0 cable modem and fibre-based […]

May 31, 2017

Broadcasting boom lifts football’s Enterprise Value

In advance of the UEFA Champions League final between Real Madrid and Juventus on June 3rd, KPMG has released the second edition of the Football Clubs’ Valuation: The European Elite 2017, a report providing an indication of the Enterprise Value (EV) of the 32 most prominent European football clubs. Andrea Sartori, KPMG’s Global Head of […]

May 31, 2017

Liberty claims €7bn social benefit from its investment

Liberty Global believes its €14.5 billion investment in super-fast networks over the past four years has generated €23.5 billion of economic activity in Europe and this has provided a net social benefit of over €7 billion. Liberty revealed the claims from its consultant Oxera at ANGA. Oxera said it had focused on only measurable benefits […]

May 31, 2017

Stofa set for ‘biggest-ever’ transformation project

Responding to competitive challenges, Danish TV and Internet service provider Stofa is to undertake what CEO Ole Fruekilde describes as it biggest-ever project centring on a full technology migration across all Stofa’s sites in Denmark. It has selected ARRIS to transform its cable broadband network to deliver gigabit broadband speeds and new, enhanced services including […]

May 31, 2017Colin Mann @ ANGA COM

Irdeto, Verimatrix join SAT>IP Alliance

The SAT>IP Alliance, a non-profit organisation responsible for defining marketing and technology strategies related to the SAT>IP standard, has announced that Irdeto and Verimatrix have joined the Alliance. Both companies will strengthen the group’s work in the area of content security. “With the integration of CAS-to-DRM solutions into the SAT>IP standard we are making it […]

May 31, 2017Nick Snow @ ANGA COM

BBC to stream election debate on Twitter

The BBC’s election debate on May 31st  will be streamed live on Twitter as well as broadcast on television.  It marks the first partnership of its kind between the social network and the BBC. A “real-time curated timeline” of tweets will bring commentary from BBC experts and BBC Reality Check to Twitter users during the […]

May 31, 2017

Avanti warns of “no material growth” from new contracts

Avanti Communications warned investors and shareholders that despite winning some $25 million-worth of new contracts over the past two months, they were unlikely to generate “material revenue growth” during its second-half year of trading. The demand, such as it is, was mostly generated from new business in Europe and the Middle East. “The new contracts […]

May 31, 2017By Chris Forrester

Arqiva, Information TV to launch UK DTH channels

Arqiva, the UK communications infrastructure company, has announced a new long-term partnership with multi-channel broadcaster Information TV to provide new channels to the UK DTH market. With Arqiva signed up to be the exclusive provider of technical services for the broadcaster, Information TV will now have a one-stop shop for all services relating to the […]

May 31, 2017