ROKiT Williams Racing has chosen Tata Communications as the team’s Official Digital Transformation Partner. ROKiT Williams Racing will benefit from Tata Communications’ seven-season track record in the reliable delivery of network, hosting, broadcasting and security services to the F1 ecosystem. The team will use Tata Communications’ digital infrastructure to enable real-time data transfer between the […]

Ronan Kelly, the President of the FTTH Council Europe, has presented Orange Spain and Dana Tobak, Chief Executive Officer of Hyperoptic with an FTTH Award for their outstanding contributions to the acceleration of FTTH in Europe. Dana Tobak is very familiar with the business of running companies and Hyperoptic is not her first telecom company […]

Apple looks set to give the world a first look at its streaming service in less than 2 weeks. The tech giant has invited media to an event at the Steve Jobs Theater in California on March 25th, where it is expected to unveil its Netflix rival. The company is then set to launch the […]

Eutelsat has used the CabSat show in Dubai to launch Cirrus, a hybrid satellite plus OTT delivery of programming and channels. Eutelsat has signed up its first customer, MondoGlobo/MCNC, which will deliver its Telearabia PRO bundle to users, initially to a group of London hotels. Mondo Globo’s new TV platform of Arabic-language SD channels, specifically […]

The potential freeing of C-band spectrum by Intelsat and SES over the US for use by 5G has been well covered in recent times. With a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) probably only weeks away, the temperature is rising amongst supporters and objectors. Some Capital Hill lawmakers are advocating the introduction of a special ‘windfall’ tax […]

A pay-TV pirate has been fined AED 50,000 (about €12,000) and sentenced to 3 months in prison for infringing OSN’s copyrights and intellectual property rights. The dealer was pirating output from India’s Dish TV in the Emirates. However, the fine is extraordinarily modest considering that the pirate was found with more than 2000 illegal set-top […]

M-Three Satcom, the Italian based teleport operator founded in 2004 and acquired by Giglio Group in 2015, is set to be acquired by Vertice 360 – the Spanish media company owned by Squirrel Capital. M-Three Satcom will be main part of a wider agreement including the purchase by Vertice of other media assets of Giglio […]