Netflix has released May data from its ISP Speed Index – a monthly update on which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide the best prime time Netflix streaming experience. There are a few highlights on the index this month, mostly around speed gains and country ranking movements. Taiwan’s Taiwan Mobile saw the largest increase on the […]
Jeff Bezos, speaking at a conference in Las Vegas last week, said that his Project Kuiper plan to populate the sky with thousands of satellites for global broadband was the sort of gamble a business of Amazon’s size needed to ensure growth. Bezos pulled no punches, telling delegates that Amazon was prepared to lose billions […]
Many of Hollywood’s major studios and broadcasters have come out firmly in support of the C-Band Alliance’s (CBA) plan for a restructuring of its C-band spectrum over the US. The ‘Content Companies’ have written to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) saying that CBS, Discovery, Disney, Fox, Viacom and Univision, are giving the CBA their support. […]
BARB commissions Kantar Focal Meter for deployment across UK Television Audience Measurement Panel BARB, the UK television audience measurement currency, has commissioned Kantar, the global Television Audience Measurement (TAM) provider, to roll out its new Focal Meter router meter across all broadband homes on the UK’s TAM panel. Focal Meter will measure viewing across four […]
England’s win over Scotland in the Women’s World Cup on June 9th was the UK’s most watched women’s football match of all time, drawing a peak of 6.1 million viewers on BBC television. The figure – 37.8 per cent of the available audience – breaks the previous record of four million viewers for England’s Euro […]
The FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019 is officially underway and fans from all over the world will be tuning in for the next month. With the previous FIFA Women’s World Cup Canada 2015 garnering a record-breaking 764 million television viewers – an estimated 86 million of which watched online or via a mobile device […]
BT Sport has announced plans to offer its licensees the opportunity to grow their business by offering free personalised digital training in partnership with Google Digital Garage. A survey of 2,000 consumers has shown that 55 per cent plan ahead when going out to watch live sport and 45 per cent of live sport watchers […]
Broadband Forum has revealed that growing momentum around its Connected Home and broadband experience related projects has been the driver behind a spike in new members. Since the beginning of the year, more than a dozen innovative companies have joined Broadband Forum, including Benu Networks, dot11 Labs, F-Secure, Humax, KAON Media, Metaswitch, Pico VR, Plume, […]
According to a report by Dell’Oro Group, a source for market information about the telecommunications, networks, and data centre IT industries, global revenue for broadband access equipment declined 2 per cent year-on-year in Q1 2019, reaching $2.9 billion. Increased shipments of XG-PON1,
Consumer spend on gaming software continues to grow, achieving $132 billion (€116.6bn), including mobile, PC and console games worldwide in 2018, according to a gaming trends market report from Futuresource Consulting. “Behind the steady rise in revenues, the gaming landscape continues to shift and change,” says James Manning Smith, Market Analyst at Futuresource Consulting. “We’re