The UK’s Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally cleared the proposed merger of Virgin Media and Virgin Mobile with O2. Both Virgin and O2 provide certain wholesale services to other mobile network operators in the UK, as well as retail services to consumers. The CMA was clear at the outset of its in-depth inquiry […]
In what the pair describe as a landmark transaction, Grupo Televisa and Univision Holdings have announced a definitive transaction agreement in which Televisa’s content and media assets will be combined with Univision to create the largest Spanish-language media company in the world: Televisa-Univision. The combination brings together the two leading media businesses in the two […]
The number of Western European pay-TV subscribers will fall by 4 million between 2020 and 2026 to 103 million, according to the Western Europe Pay TV Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. Reflecting the importance of high-speed broadband for homes, IPTV is the top pay-TV platform by subscribers. IPTV will gain 4 million […]
BT has started expanding its 5G network across the UK as lockdown begins to lift. Outlaying the plans, Marc Allera, CEO at BT Consumer Division, commented: “As restrictions gradually start to ease across the UK in the coming weeks, so our mobility will start to increase. After months of working over high-quality video calls, staying […]
A report from industry body the Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group (BITAG) analysing US Internet performance over the course of the pandemic has found that that the ecosystem as a whole saw very few widespread disruptions for consumers, businesses and organisations, even as traffic reached unprecedented volume and hundreds of millions of Americans worked and […]
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden have met with broadband industry leaders and praised the sector for creating more than 22,000 jobs over the last year as forecasts for gigabit rollout are revised further upwards. They welcomed the firms’ work to help the nation build back better from the pandemic with […]
The latest Connectivity Survey from Ireland’s electronic communications sector regulator ComReg highlights the important role of broadband services for remote working and the likely take-up of faster broadband services in the future. The survey, conducted by Red C Research, finds that 79 per cent of people consider home broadband to be important, rising to 95 […]
Telco TV specialist Netgem has confirmed the launch of streaming service Acorn TV, claiming it as another ‘UK first’ addition to Netgem TV, the end-to-end TV service powering the UK’s growing community of Altnets and challenger ISPs. The service is available for £4.99 (€5.85) per month after a 30-day free trial. Users who sign up […]
A report on the most influential analyst house – featured as part of an independent survey commissioned by B2B technology PR agency CCgroup, produced in collaboration with Sapio Research – placed the top three as: 1. Strategy Analytics 2. Gartner 3. Juniper Research The new report surveyed over 100 technology buying decision makers across ten […]
The SRT Alliance, established by Haivision, a global provider of mission-critical, real-time video streaming and networking solutions, has announced that SK Teleco, Korea’s largest wireless telecommunications operator, has joined the SRT Alliance to support and adopt the SRT open source protocol. SRT (Secure Reliable Transport) is a free open source video transport protocol and technology stack originally developed and pioneered by Haivision […]