Mark Rigolle, formerly SES’ chief financial officer, and more recently CEO at O3b where SES has an important 34 per cent stake, is not rejoining the satellite operator. This is directly contrary to a statement issued by Rigolle as part of his hand-over to O3b’s new CEO. Rigolle successfully supervised the raising of $1.2 billion […]
Tiered services becomes a reality as AT&T has confirmed it will soon cap its DSL bandwidth at 150 GB per month. Customers who use more data over three months will have to pay $10 for each additional 50 GB slice of data. This is potentially bad news for services like Netflix. A typical movie streamed […]
Noorsat, which rents capacity and resells it over the Middle East, is looking to buy its own satellite. Noorsat is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Saudi Arabia’s giant Mawarid Group, and by and large leases capacity from Eutelsat. Omar Shoter, CEO at Noorsat, has reportedly said the company is investigating the possibility of launching its own […]
Intelsat has formed an alliance with BT that expands the reach of its IntelsatONE terrestrial network to new locations in Europe, Africa and Asia. The Intelsat and BT media fibre alliance interconnects Intelsat’s MPLS-based IntelsatONE fiber network, which consists of fibre and points of presence (PoPs) located in major cities and teleports with BT’s MPLS-based […]
Sky Deutschland and Tele Columbus have agreed to expand their existing cooperation and make the Sky packages available in an attractive Triple Play offering. With this, the Tele Columbus customers have easy access to Sky programming: the joint offer comprises a 6 MBit Internet-and telephone flat rate, Tele Columbus basic digital TV package and the […]
Encompass Digital Media, a digital media services provider, has announced the completion of the purchase of Ascent Media’s global content distribution business. This transaction includes broadcast facilities in the US (including the New York metro area, Minnesota and Burbank), London and Singapore. Encompass enhances its presence in the global marketplace serving major television networks, cable […]
BSkyB has appointed former BT media strategist Barry Louth as head of media planning. Louth will report to Andrew Mortimer, director of media strategy and planning and will work on developing media strategy for the Sky brand and its broadening products and services.
Eutelsat used the opening day of Washington Satellite 2011 to confirm a three-year order for capacity on its giant Ka-Sat craft. The deal is with Germany’s Sat Internet Services which has contracted for three-years of capacity on the satellite for Eutelsat’s Tooway broadband-by-satellite product. Eutelsat says there is a significant market opportunity for satellite broadband […]
ADB SA CEO Francois Pogodalla is leaving his post with immediate effect by mutual consent, says the company. Andrew Rybicki, ADB Group CEO, will take on his responsibility for now. Profits were $12.9 million in 2010 down from $15.25 million in 2009, in part due to the cost of integrating Pirelli Broadband Solutions. Pogodalla joined […]
The UK’s major ISPs are to reveal how and why they slow down user connections to maintain their network performance in order to “help customers understand why they need to vary connection speeds.” The ISPs hope the move will help stave off regulation enforcing net neutrality. The code of practice has been drawn up by […]