According to the latest research – 5G Smartphone Sales: China to Drive Rapid Growth in 2020 – from Strategy Analytics, global sales of 5G smartphones will reach 160 million in 2020 – if 5G takes off as expected in China, Huawei is best positioned to capture the majority of China’s 5G smartphone sales and could […]
Pan-African pay-TV operator MultiChoice is to cut its subscription fees for Uganda residents, and will extend to Kenya and Tanzania and potentially other East African customers. Its DStv Premium, top-tier bundle, will fall from 280,000 Uganda Shillings (€68.5) to 219,000 Shillings per month. There are similar cuts to its Compact, Compact Plus, and Family tiers. […]
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) – a global coalition dedicated to protecting the dynamic legal market and reducing online piracy – has obtained a permanent injunction from the Federal Court in Canada against Vader Streams, a major purveyor of unauthorised film and television content. ACE achieved full suspension of Vader Streams’ operations, and […]
Following successful legal action taken by Sky, three premises in the Republic of Ireland have been ordered to pay damages for infringing Sky’s copyright by showing Sky Sports programming illegally. Bridge Bar was ordered to pay €14,688; Joshua Tree Bar failed to adhere to settlement terms and was ordered to pay €17,500; and River Lane […]
Samba TV, a provider of global TV data and audience analytics, has acquired Axwave through a combination of cash and stock. Exact terms of the deal are not being disclosed. Samba TV announced in connection with its $30 million Series B financing from Liberty Global, Disney and Warner Media and others that it would use […]
Sky Deutschland’s offering for the Bundesliga and the DFB-Pokal is now available live and on a pay-per-view basis in Germany via the app of the football media platform, Onefootball. This weekend, football fans can follow Sky Deutschland’s live broadcasts of the 2. Bundesliga, starting at €3.99 per match, directly in the Onefootball app. The distribution […]
Telenor Group announced in April that it had entered into separate agreements with Finda and PHP to acquire 54 per cent of the shares in the Finnish telecom operator DNA for €20.90 per share in cash, in total €1.5 billion. Following approval by the general meetings of the sellers and required regulatory approvals, the transaction […]
The Kudelski Group, provider of media content protection, has announced its 2019 half year results. For the first half 2019, the Group generated $400.6 million (€360.9m) total revenues, a six per cent decrease from the previous first half. The Group reduced its first half year operating expenses by $54.8 million compared to the first half […]
China’s latest communications and DTH satellite ChinaSat-18 which was launched on August 19th is reportedly suffering problems. ChinaSat 18 satellite was launched at 8:03 pm (Beijing Time) on a Long March-3B carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. The rocket launch was said to have gone well and there […]
Australia’s Optus, the country’s second-largest telecoms company and a subsidiary of Singapore’s SingTel, is linking with Myriota on a nano-satellite scheme to provide coverage of Internet of Things (IoT) demand. In a statement Myriota said the telco-nanosatellite agreement would offer low-cost, long battery life connectivity for millions of devices across multiple industries by combining Optus’ […]