Abu Dhabi wants to enforce its ban on “illegal” satellite dishes from rooftops and owner’s balconies in the capital city. Warnings are being given to violators, who are told to remove the dish and instead install a ‘legal’ rooftop – and generally invisible from street-level – communal dish system. The problem is compounded because many […]
Serbia’s Commission for the Protection of Competition has initiated the procedure for alleged abuse of dominant market position against the country’s leading cable TV operator. Serbia Broadband (SBB) is owned by regional DTH and cable TV operator United Group. This follows SBB’s decision to increase the monthly subscription fee by RSD 100 to RSD 1395 […]
Hong Kong-based AsiaSat has reported its full-year results (to December 31st) showed revenues returned to an upward trend with an increase of 6 per cent to HK$1,354 million (€139.25m) from HK$1,272 million in 2016, supported by the lease of the full Ku-band payload of AsiaSat 8 (to Spacecom) during the year, ongoing migration from Standard […]
Japan’s Broadcasting Satellite System Corp (B-SAT) is ordering a new satellite – BSAT 4b – from Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) that will help carry ‘Super Hi-Vision’ DTH signals at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. “We are honoured to provide a second satellite to B-SAT that will help ensure high-quality distribution of the 2020 Olympic Games,” said […]
Last month Star India issued a warning to Bharti-owned Airtel Digital TV, alleging that Airtel had failed to pay subscription fees dues to Star, and warning Airtel that it would disconnect its channels within 3 weeks. The war of words between Star and Airtel continues, and have escalated. A statement from Airtel issued on March […]
Western European pay-TV will gain subscribers between 2017 and 2023. Although this only represents a 2.6 per cent increase, the Western Europe Pay-TV Forecasts report from Digital TV Research, estimates nearly 3 million more subs to take the total to 106 million. “Much of the pay-TV subscriber growth will come from countries with traditionally low […]
India now has a giant DTH operator following the merger of Dish TV India and Videocon d2h. The merged business now has about 29 million DTH subscribers, and makes the combined company the second-largest DTH company in the world (after the overall DTH numbers of DirecTV). Dish TV India CMD Jawahar Goel said: “We are […]
Nigeria’s Communications Satellite organisation (NigComSat) is reportedly in talks with Turkey’s Turksat about potential cooperation. The talks began at the recent Washington Satellite 2018 show and where NigSatCom said the parties were looking at how the two organisations could expand their respective footprints. Also discussed was potential access to the other’s bandwidth, as well as […]
Israel’s Spacecom is abandoning its usual local supplier (Israel Aerospace Industries, IAI) and is instead buying its latest satellite from Maxar-Space Systems/Loral. Spacecom is paying $112 million for the craft. There will likely be extra payments for insurance as well as the costs of launching the satellite. IAI has built 4 previous satellites for Spacecom. […]
India is set to launch its high-power GSAT-6A communications satellite on March 29th. India’s Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will use one of its rockets for the launch, from the Sriharikota island site in Andhra Pradesh province on the edge of the Indian Ocean. The satellite is equipped with C-band and S-band transponders which ISRO says […]