Several European countries experienced sizable gains across multiple services on December’s Netflix ISP Speed Index, a monthly update on which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide the best prime time Netflix streaming experience. The final month of 2019 saw upticks in Bolivia, Hungary and Poland. Bolivia had the largest increase as Entel jumped 0.73 Megabits per […]
Two Japanese services experienced notable increases on November’s Netflix ISP Speed Index – its monthly update on which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide the best prime time Netflix streaming experience. Nifty jumped 0.45 Megabits per second (Mbps) to a 3.15 Mbps average. Freebit rose 0.25 Mbps to a 2.62 Mbps average. However, the United States’ […]
Australia’s Seven Network has revealed plans to team up with multiplay telco Optus to develop a channel featuring Seven’s coverage of Tokyo 2020 in 4K Ultra HD, which will be exclusively available to Optus 5G Home customers via IPTV service Fetch. The intention is for Seven’s coverage of the Olympics to be available in 4K […]
Bigblu Broadband (BBB), a provider of alternative fast broadband services, has provided a trading update for the 12-month period ended November 30th 2019. Trading for the year was in line with management expectations with continued improvement in the Company’s key performance indicators including customer additions, revenue growth, ARPU’s and EBITDA margin. During the period the […]
The slowest broadband in the UK, with an average download speed of 0.22Mbps, is found in Kingsclere, Huntington in York, according to the latest consumer speed tests collated by uSwitch.com, the price comparison and switching service. Kingsclere suffers average speeds a staggering 829 times slower than the UK’s fastest street, Darwin Street, Livingston in Scotland, […]
The UK’s Internet Services Providers’ Association (ISPA UK) – the voice of the UK Internet industry to policy makers, the media and the public – has responded to the launch of the Labour Party’s General Election manifesto which has formalised its previously—announced policy of renationalising parts of the UK industry, including BT’s infrastructure subsidiary Openreach, […]
An Ofcom report monitoring UK consumer supplier switching in the communications market reveals that in the last 12 months: 12 per cent have switched broadband provider 12 per cent have switched mobile phone provider 11 per cent have switched landline provider The figures also show a possible reason behind this activity, as providers are failing […]
September saw sizable movement in Saudi Arabia on the Netflix ISP Speed Index – a monthly update on which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide the best prime time Netflix streaming experience. Saudi Arabia jumped five spots on the country rankings, rising from 48 in August to 43. This was likely at least partially boosted by […]
Pay-TV take-up continues to grow in Spain to the detriment of FTA TV. In the first quarter of 2019, pay-TV revenues increased by 2.6 per cent to €563.6 million, whereas FTA saw its numbers fall by 1.1 per cent to €422.7 million, according to the latest report from CNMC. As a whole, the audiovisual revenue […]
When at home, 5.1 million people use broadband every single minute, according to UK multiplay operator TalkTalk. There is a new generation of Britons choosing nights in with family, staying in to indulge their online guilty pleasures, forming what TalkTalk has coined the ‘In-Crowd’. With winter nights drawing