Deutsche Telekom has chosen to extend its long-term partnership with MediaKind to deploy, support and operate a new multi-tenant next generation cloud TV platform. The first Deutsche Telekom subsidiary to operate this new platform will be Magyar Telekom in Hungary, who are working to migrate most of their subscribers on to it by the end […]
Virgin Media has been named fastest broadband provider in the UK for the seventh year in a row. Analysis from UK broadband comparison website Broadband Genie recorded an average download of 71.5Mb for Virgin Media customers – almost three times faster than its nearest challenger. Vodafone claimed top spot for uploading speed, recording an average […]
The latest Which? broadband satisfaction survey reveals that customers with the UK’s largest providers are the most likely to be getting a bad deal. BT, Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin Media supply almost nine in 10 broadband customers, yet year after year these are the providers that occupy the bottom of the consumer champion’s league table. […]
UK broadband infrastructure provider Openreach has launched a consultation for the country’s leading broadband and telephone providers asking for their views on how it can upgrade consumers and businesses throughout the country onto next generation ‘full fibre’ broadband connections. Unlike the move to digital TV, the process of upgrading broadband connections to ‘full fibre’ will […]
BT has announced the licensing of the company’s cyber security visual analytics technology, SATURN, to QiO Technologies, an advanced analytics and artificial intelligence software company. BT developed SATURN to ingest and analyse huge amounts of data using AI, and then present a real-time visual representation of a network to users, including cyber security engineers. As […]
Vodafone is set to receive a warning from EU regulators on possible anti-competitive effects from its $22 billion (€19.3bn) buy of Liberty Global’s German and eastern European assets. The warning – a statement of objections setting out the European Commission’s concerns – is expected to be spelled out to the companies shortly, reports Reuters, ahead […]
Salisbury will become the first entire city in the UK to gain access to Openreach’s new, future-proof Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband technology, in what is expected to be the fastest city-wide network build in the UK. The UK’s digital infrastructure company is aiming for its ‘Fibre First’ build programme in Salisbury to be completed within a […]
Video software solutions specialist Espial has released its vision paper, Digital Transformation, The New Imperatives for Operators, which reveals the real opportunities available for video operators that embrace a truly disruptive business model. Taking a page from companies such as
Vodafone Spain aims to go back to profit in 2020 – the first profits since the acquisition of ONO in 2015. This is the forecast from the company included in the file submitted to the Spanish authorities to justify the 1,000 job cuts in its redundancy plan, according to El Español. Vodafone estimates that the […]
UK multiplay telco Virgin Media has announced a series of new WiFi updates that it says will give millions of its customers the UK’s fastest widely available broadband speeds in more areas of their home, suggesting the move will revolutionise subscribers’ in-home connectivity. The technology – which has already