Gavin Patterson, BT’s CEO, has expressed his fear that the UK’s exit from the European Union may have an adverse effect on the telco’s R&D capabilities. Noting that the telco is the third largest investor in R&D in the UK over the last 10 years (behind the two major pharmaceutical companies) and the world’s second […]
Gigabit speeds are around the corner for eligible homes and businesses in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and the Gold Coast. The news comes as a result of Australia’s national broadband network operator nbn’s trials of DOCSIS 3.1 technology on its Hybrid Fibre Coaxial (HFC) network – previously Telstra’s pay-TV cable. In lab trials of […]
The European Commission has approved the acquisition of de facto control over Telecom Italia by Vivendi. The decision is conditional on the divestment of Telecom Italia’s stake in Persidera. Telecom Italia is also active, through its subsidiary Persidera (a joint venture with Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso), in the market for the wholesale access to digital terrestrial […]
Investment in digital infrastructure by the world’s largest international TV and broadband company is delivering transformative benefits to European consumers and businesses, according to economist firm Oxera Consulting. The company’s analysis of the economic impact of Liberty Global’s investment in broadband infrastructure between the start of 2013 and the end of the first quarter of […]
Telco entertainment solution provider Netgem, has launched its CloudTV product tailored for the German cable and IPTV market with purtel.com, a wholesale IP services provider becoming the first customer. The purTV service will be distributed by purtel.com to its cable and Internet service provider client base to enable them to upgrade their TV propositions. Consumers […]
Customer satisfaction with subscription television is down 1.5 per cent to 64, tied with Internet Service providers for last place among 43 industries tracked by the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). New ACSI results show that wireless service is the only telecom industry to improve. Internet service providers, fixed-line telephone and cell phones are unchanged, […]
The Federal Communications Commission on May 19th took the first steps toward dismantling the regulatory framework created in 2015 to protect net neutrality. But a new Consumer Reports survey found that a majority of Americans value those protections. The 2015 rules were designed by the FCC under former chairman Tom Wheeler to safeguard consumers from […]
Helen Burrows, Head of Policy at BT, has called for the UK government to take policy decisions that she suggests would lead to a more connected society, building on the UK telco’s IPTV network. Delivering a keynote address at the IDATE Digiworld Summit in London, Burrows noted that despite broadband availability of around 95 per […]
The Broadband Stakeholder Group has launched a report, commissioned from Analysys Mason that looks at the practical steps the UK can take to lower barriers to telecoms infrastructure deployment. The deployment of telecoms networks is not always delivered as efficiently as possible, thus creating delays in getting businesses and households connected or benefiting from improvements […]
According to the latest findings from specialist broadband, media and entertainment industries analyst firm Leichtman Research Group (LRG) the fourteen largest cable and telephone providers in the US – representing about 95 per cent of the market – acquired about 960,000 net additional high-speed Internet subscribers in Q1 2017. These top broadband providers now account […]