Vodafone Spain has added Amazon’s OTT platform Prime Video to its offer with a one year free promotion to its subscribers. Subscribers to Vodafone One and Red will be able to enjoy this new service for free for a year (saving €36) by registering on turegalovodafone.es With this addition, Vodafone now offers three OTT services, […]
Russian space agency Roscosmos says it will create a new mega-constellation of satellites to serve Internet of Things demand. The ‘Marathon’ constellation will likely comprise hundreds of craft and operate alongside Russia’s Glonass GPS system and as part of Russia’s planned ‘Sphere’ project which calls for 640 satellites, and to be fully deployed by 2026. […]
Altice Portugal has criticised the decision of the National Communications Authority (Anacom) to cut the TV channel distribution fees by 15 per cent, considering the decision as “unfair, unfounded and negatively impacting the future of DTT in Portugal”. It points out that the contract was signed between the operator and the State and now the […]
Seventy-five per cent of Spaniards watch TV through FTA DTT, 25.2 per cent via a pay-TV platform. The November figures from the consultancy firm Barlovento Comunicación confirm that DTT is the most used distribution system to watch TV. Within payTV, IPTV leads the market with 12.7 per cent (including Movistar, Vodafone, Orange), followed by cable […]
Naspers, which owns the MultiChoice/DStv pay-TV operation in Africa, says that MultiChoice had grown its subscriber base by some 400,000 over the past year. Naspers’ video entertainment division now has 13.9 million subscribers across Africa. The division’s overall revenues grew 3 percent to $1.8 billion, and profits increased 6 percent to $211 million. “The value […]
The challenges facing makers of head-worn virtual and augmented reality devices is underlined in the latest forecast from technology analyst firm CCS Insight. Despite early enthusiasm and a continued expectation of significant long-term potential for the technology, CCS Insight believes there is still significant work to be done to improve the user experience, software platforms […]
The loan, for the National Investment Bank of Norway, which has an average maturity of approximately 5 years after disbursement, will finance Nokia’s extensive research and development program focused on 5G activities in Europe in 2018-2020. The investment will especially concentrate on developing new 5G-related end-to-end product offerings for different business areas. 5G is the […]
At a ceremony in Tokyo on Saturday, December 1st, Communications Minister Masatoshi Ishida said he hopes Japan will play a leading global role in 4K and 8K broadcasting. NHK, Japan’s public broadcaster, at 10am local time, switched on the two new channels. NHK President Ryoichi Ueda said the broadcaster will aim to spread the service […]
Formula 1 has signed a partnership agreement with virtual reality 360º providers The Dream VR to launch a fully immersive VR app. Starting this month, fans of the motorsport around the world will be able to experience revolutionary 360° digital interactive entertainment. The Dream VR will offer access to Formula 1 events to its 3 […]
The FTTH Council has written an open letter to attendees at the Telecoms Council, warning against misleading promotions for fibre speeds and service levels: ‘As the European Electronic Communications Code is being formally adopted by the Telecoms Council, we would like to highlight that misleading advertising practices directly undermine the achievement of the new, fourth […]