Europe’s TV and VoD providers, represented by trade body the Association of Commercial Television and Video on Demand Services in Europe (ACT), have expressed their concerns following recent statements on creating a network fee to finance telecom infrastructures. “We understand the need for strong, widely available telecoms infrastructure in Europe which, among other things, helps […]
Pay-TV operator MultiChoice Kenya, with support from European football’s governing body UEFA, has obtained a ruling from the Kenya High Court that orders a series of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the country to permanently block access to sports pirate websites which contain materials which infringe copyright. Efforts in the fight against the pirate websites […]
BT has extended its support for families worst hit by the cost-of-living crisis by partnering with family support charity Home-Start UK to offer 2,500 financially vulnerable households’ free devices and free connectivity to Home Essentials. The social tariff will also be available to families in need nationwide through the ‘Connected Families’ scheme available through Buttle […]
Findings from a new study – The State of Mobile & Broadband customer support – by customer and network experience platform provider Subtonomy suggest that quality of service, as well as the quality of support, influence user decisions as to which Internet Service Provider to select. Sweden is a highly advanced digital economy, ranking third […]
A nationwide study has found that a third (33 per cent) of Brits would rather cut back on their fuel use than cut back on broadband to save money. However, 20 per cent of Brits cannot afford to be online, leaving them unable to carry out day to day life tasks such as accessing public […]
South Africa is ready to launch its own satellite to enhance the reach of broadband connectivity in the country, according to Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, Minster of Communications and Digital Technologies. Speaking at the World Telecommunication Development Conference 2022 in a Partner to Connect session, she told delegates that South Africa was implementing a Broadband Connectivity drive […]
Netflix announced at this year’s Partner2Connect (P2C) Digital Development Roundtable its continued efforts to collaborate with internet service providers to make stories made globally more locally accessible. As members of the P2C Digital Coalition, Netflix pledges to partner with neutral internet exchange points and data centers to deploy content caching servers in Least Developed Countries […]
After slipping 2.6 per cent last year, customer satisfaction with video streaming services is steady with a score of 74 (on a scale of 0 to 100), according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) Telecommunications Study 2021-2022. Consumers still favour streaming over all the other telecommunications industries – and its lead over the next […]
Bath-based Truespeed has amplified the rollout of its full fibre broadband with an £8 million (€9.4m) investment across five additional South West areas. In parallel to adding the new areas of Peasedown St John and Midsomer Norton to its remit, Truespeed is expanding its existing network in Radstock, Keynsham and Saltford. The multi-million pound investment from the […]
OneWeb, the global space-based communications company, has agreed a long-term distribution partnership agreement with Gogo Business Aviation, whereby the inflight connectivity solutions provider will market and sell OneWeb’s high-speed, low latency inflight broadband services to business aviation users globally. The agreement, OneWeb’s first announced Distribution Partner for the business aviation market, was signed at the […]