Telcos in Latin America are adopting a number of strategies to counter the declining revenue from traditional voice services, the deceleration of data growth and the rising participation of cable companies in the traditional telco space (voice and broadband). Accordingly, the past few years have seen the telcos try to broaden their scope of action […]
Latin America’s seven main markets have absorbed almost 21 million set-top boxes as it adopts digital pay-TV. Latest numbers from Dataxis Online Intelligence says 20.57 million units have been supplied or bought by viewers, and this number to grow to 26.4 million by 2016. Of the above installed total, 7.4 million serve cabled homes, 12.3 […]
Dubai-based Arabic broadcaster MBC has apologised for accidentally showing a movie containing a nude scene. ‘Into the Wild’, directed by Sean Penn, showed a scene of partial nudity which normally would have been edited out. The film was shown on its MBC Max channel. The movie created something of a storm on social network site […]
Intelsat, the world’s leading provider of satellite services, has announced new contracts with customers utilising Intelsat’s premier African video distribution satellite neighborhoods and broadband capacity. In Africa, Multichoice Africa Limited, the region’s premier pay-TV platform operator and programming distributor, expanded its commitment for capacity on Intelsat 904 for contribution services. This agreement complements Multichoice’s DTH […]
Intelsat, the world’s leading provider of satellite services, has reported results for the three months ended September 30th, 2011. It had revenue of $652.9 million and a net loss of $0.4 million. Included in the quarterly results were a $20.2 million pre-tax non-recurring charge from a loss on previously unconsolidated affiliates and a $42.7 million […]
India’s existing – mostly DTH – digital broadcasters are said to be looking forward enthusiastically to the nation’s implementation of digital transmission by the country’s cable TV operators. India’s four largest cities have to have converted from analogue to digital TV by March next year. The whole nation must be converted by December 2014. Most […]
Iran’s state broadcaster has transmitted an interview with the country’s police commander warning companies, businesses and private individuals that they must not advertise on “foreign satellite TV networks”. Officially, watching satellite TV in Iran is illegal and dishes and receiving equipment can be – and often is – confiscated. However, a growing number of channels […]
Dish Network’s third-quarter earnings rose 30 per cent as increased equipment, merchandise and rental revenue supported a double-digit jump in sales. Meanwhile its former unit EchoStar swung to a loss amid sharply higher costs. The satellite-television operator has been working to diversify its business in the face of a maturing US subscription television market and […]
Dan Goldberg, CEO at Ottawa-based Telesat, has reported flat revenues for the nine month period to September 30th, but he stated that new craft coming on stream next year will boost income for the satellite operator. Two satellites are due for launch in 2012: Nimiq-6 and Anik G1. Telesat’s revenues were $585 million for the […]
DirecTV has made what some see as an ‘emergency’ contract with Astrium to build DirecTV-15. The satellite is needed because DirecTV-10 (launched July 2007) suffered problems with its primary propulsion this past summer and while the satellite is operating well on its back-up system, full in-orbit back-up is needed. Additionally, DirecTV is also bringing forward […]