Spain’s largest telco, Telefónica, and Netflix have entered into a partnership to integrate the streaming service into Telefónica’s platforms in Europe and Latin America. In Spain, the service will be launched by the end of the year with the first launches in Latin America to be announced within the next few weeks. The agreement was […]
Philip Hammond, the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, has targeted seeing full-fibre to the premises connections being available to 15 million premises by 2025 and committed to delivering a nationwide full-fibre to the premises network by 2033. Delivering a speech at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) Annual Dinner 2018, Hammond said that the government […]
Movistar has been declared the worst telco operator to watch Netflix on in Spain, and Jazztel the best, according to network speed data produced by Netflix. Movistar ranked bottom with a speed of 2.78 Mbps per second, being the only Spanish operator with a speed lower than 3 Mbps. The rock-bottom ranking has been the […]
Having signalled its intention to bring together the best of broadband, mobile and Wi-Fi to provide seamless connectivity for customers across the UK, BT has revealed BT Plus, bringing together home broadband, mobile and Wi-Fi capabilities into one converged plan, with one simple bill. Claiming it as the UK’s first converged fibre and 4G plan, […]
Telefónica, the leading Spanish telco, is set to launch the O2 brand in the country this September, with a low-cost convergent package. With the launch, the company aims to compete with other low-cost convergent services from the likes of MasMovil, a firm that is increasingly gaining ground in the market to the detriment of the […]
Spanish telcos Telefónica, Orange and Vodafone are offering free faster FTTH speeds in an attempt to gain more subscribers. From today, Telefónica is doubling its speeds no extra cost for its 3.4 million FTTH customers, going from 50 Mbps to 100 Mbps and from 300 Mbps to 600 Mbps. Orange is increasing the Internet speeds […]
Findings from Leichtman Research Group indicate that the largest cable and telephone providers in the US – representing about 95 per cent of the market – acquired about 800,000 net additional broadband Internet subscribers in 1Q 2018. These top broadband providers now account for 96.5 million subscribers – with top cable companies having 62.2 million […]
The World Teleport Association (WTA) has released Satellite Operator Benchmarks 2018, the eighth report in its series that tracks, rates and compares the operational and commercial performance of satellite operators, as experienced by teleport operators, in order to strengthen the industry by driving self-improvement across all companies. Research for the report was conducted by Futuresource, […]
Global demand for video services reached $700 billion (€593bn) in 2017 and will grow steadily to reach $842 billion by 2022, according to a new whitepaper – How Operators Can Capture a Share of the $700 Billion Global Video Market – published by advisory firm Strategy Analytics and sponsored by Huawei. Consumer video services such […]
British households are paying for broadband services that are, on average, 51 per cent slower than advertised, according to analysis from consumer body Which?. Results generated from 235,000 uses of the Which? broadband speed-checker tool show that, on average, customers are paying for speeds of up to 38 megabits per second, but actually only receiving […]