SES-15, a new satellite owned by SES of Luxembourg, is scheduled to launch from French Guiana on a Russian-built Soyuz rocket today (May 18th). Lift-off is timed for exactly 1154:43 GMT (7:54:53 a.m. EDT; 8:54:53 a.m. French Guiana time) Thursday, weather permitting. SES-15 is headed to operate from 129 degrees West although because it is […]
India’s State Research Organisation (ISRO) is responsible for the design and build on the country’s satellite and rocket-building and to “harness space technology for national development”. It has not had aa good time just lately, beset by scandals and late-delivery of satellites which are needed to support India’s broadcasters and suppliers of bandwidth. India’s government […]
nbn’s Fixed Wireless network has passed a key milestone with the service now available to 500,000 premises in regional and rural Australia. The milestone coincides with new research from UK analyst firm Ovum which reveals that nbn is investing twice as much on regional broadband than our nearest international rival. The nbn Fixed Wireless service […]
Three UK men have been jailed for a total of 10 years and seven months for selling fake DVDs following a successful investigation by Suffolk Trading Standards and the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT). Frankie Ansell, of Grove Road, Beccles was jailed for 45 months and his cousin Lee Ansell, of Stonebow Close, Loughborough was […]
Group M, the media investment group, has announced the launch of Motion Content Group, a new global content investment and rights management company, to meet the ever-growing market demand for new economic models for premium content across the entertainment and media marketplace. Motion will invest and partner with the world’s leading talent, producers and distributors […]
South Africa’s e.tv commercial broadcaster has added four additional channels onto the country’s DStv pay-TV bundle of channels. The channels have already been transmitting on the nation’s struggling Platco Digital’s OpenView free-to-watch terrestrial service as well as on rival Star Times Media and On Digital Media pay-TV bouquets. Now eMovies+ (DStv 138) and eMovies Extra […]
Technicians at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, France, have now sent into space 79 metal parts inside satellites for the likes of Telkom 3S and the recent launch of Koreasat-7. The parts have been made by the ‘additive manufacturing’ 3D-based printing technique. Additionally, Thales has made some 350 polymer tube supports used in satellites. They […]
Global adoption of the RDK (Reference Design Kit) software solutions that provide a common platform for powering customer-premises equipment (CPE) for TV and Internet service providers is up 67 per cent since the same time last year, now reaching 25 service providers, according to Steve Heeb, President and General Manager of RDK Management, a joint […]
Viu, a pan-regional OTT video service by PCCW Media, has launched in Thailand, bringing the service now to 15 markets including Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Indonesia, the Philippines and the Middle East namely Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and UAE. Premium Asian content with Thai subtitles, comprising the latest dramas and […]
Insight TV has announced a major distribution deal with Siminn, one of Iceland’s leading telecoms companies based in Reykjavik. Siminn has launched Insight TV’s successful 4K linear channel on its UHD IPTV service Síminn Sjónvarp, providing Icelandic subscribers with hundreds of hours of unique high-end content. Iceland has the largest IPTV penetration rate in Europe […]