Interviewed as its annual Connected Nations report is published, Ofcom’s chief executive, Sharon White said the status quo between BT and its subsidiary Openreach, which provides the infrastructure connecting people to the internet, is unlikely to continue.Ofcom is currently reviewing the company’s provision of ‘superfast’ broadband. Critics of BT say it has not invested enough in […]
Sweden’s ISPs will not be forced to block controversial file-sharing site Pirate Bay, nor be held responsible for copyright infringements by users, a court has ruled. Stockholm District Court rejected a lawsuit collectively filed by the Swedish Film Industry, Nordisk Film, Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music in 2014 which argued that Bredbandsbolaget, Sweden’s […]
The Optus cable TV and broadband network acquired by Australia’s national broadband network (nbn) for A$800 million (€545m) is in such poor condition the nbn is considering replacing it entirely, according to a leaked document, which suggests that building over the Optus HFC network with Telstra HFC or a mix of other technologies would deliver […]
BT’s TV service has reported its best ever quarter with its coverage of Champions League football proving to be a major draw. The telco giant, which paid £900 million (€1.255bn) to grab the exclusive TV rights from pay-TV operator Sky and commercial pubcaster ITV, signed up 106,000 new TV customers in the three months to […]
@IBC 2015 Advanced Television talks to Keith Zubchevich, Chief Strategy Officer, about Conviva’s mission to underwrite a great Quality of Experience for a service provider’s audience. “Great content isn’t enough, it’s about quality of content times quality of experience, publishers need to manage both variables.” [bitsontherun ujU0pLQn-ni7dlelE]
The European Parliament has voted heavily against rules intended to safeguard net neutrality in the European Union. A whole series of amendments to regulations on how Internet traffic is managed in Europe were rejected by MEPs. Backers of net neutrality rushed to criticise the move. Now the un-amended existing legislation will be developed into regulations. […]
Sky’s British and European Q1 results were in the main better than expected. Equity analysts praised the pay-TV broadcaster’s broadband efforts which resulted in the best growth (+133,000) for two years. The market’s view is that Sky’s “aggressively priced” dual-play offering is resonating with consumers, and not just established DTH clients. Sky’s European numbers were, […]
Service providers are on the brink of a major shift in opportunity, says ZyXEL’s Vice President of Service Providers & Key Accounts, Europe, Karsten Gewecke. The explosion in the numbers of bandwidth-hungry clients is putting immense pressure on Wi-Fi demand and service providers need to look at their options in order to offer exceptional user […]
A potential future development of G.fast broadband technology, known as ‘XG.FAST’, has achieved speeds of more than 5 Gigabits per second in early experimental lab trials conducted by BT and Alcatel Lucent. The results give BT confidence that G.fast is a future proof technology that can help the UK maintain its position as the leading […]
Tony Cross, Chief Architect of Australia’s nbn (National Broadband Network), has announced in his Keynote Address at the Broadband World Forum 2015 event in London that the company has conducted its first trial of new copper acceleration technology G.Fast and hopes to be in a position to launch the technology in 2017. “We have conducted […]