Telecoms firms are being urged to resegment their market and understand what’s happening in the household in order to optimise their opportunities in the New Normal and accelerate time to new revenue. According to research from analyst firm Omnisperience, telecoms service providers have spent billions on designing, deploying and innovating new networks such as 5G […]
Smart Home Services specialist Plume and the Connected Home Division of media and entertainment technologist Technicolor are collaborating to expand rapidly the availability of advanced Smart Home Services to broadband providers and their subscribers. The partnership will enable Technicolor Connected Home to enrich its broadband Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) portfolio with Plume’s Consumer Experience Management […]
Global home networking unit shipments are only expected to decline by 1 per cent in 2020, dipping from 193.9 million worldwide to 192.1 million, according to forecasts from Dell’Oro Group. Included devices are residential access points, residential WiFi routers, including mesh routers, as well as broadband CPE with integrated WiFi capabilities. Supply chain constraints and […]
As part of a plan to offer local area updates from across the UK to smart speaker users, the BBC has expedited the launch of a news service into the East Midlands city of Leicester in both English and Gujarati languages, as the city enters a local lockdown following a rise in Coronavirus case numbers. […]
Parks Associates research finds US broadband households have an average of 12 connected devices, which will increase to 20 by 2025, creating opportunities for service providers and manufacturers to deploy new value-added services to support the home network and all its devices. “The number of connected devices in the home is increasing just as people […]
Liberty Global has expanded its relationship with Smart Home Services specialist Plume to give consumers more control over devices connected to their home network. Liberty Global will roll out Smart Home Services from Plume across its footprint during 2020. A first selection of these services were made available to Virgin Media customers in 2019 and […]
Consumer demand for IoT devices is growing rapidly as they look to make the most of connectivity and the smart home. However, the increase in IoT devices also increases the number of security vulnerabilities and creates challenges for communication service providers (CSPs) and consumers alike around control of the smart home. To address these challenges, […]
Input device and interaction mechanism specialist ruwido is rethinking the remote control. Instead of a device with a button to turn on the TV, the future remote control is about access to added value, which makes daily life easy and more convenient. “TICTACTILE. 7.0 is the result of the transformation process of the remote control, […]
Communications and media technology provider ARRIS (now part of CommScope via acquisition) has confirmed that multiplay operator Altice France is collaborating with CommScope to bring a personalised connected home experience to its SFR subscribers. Altice’s SFR Box 8 Smart Media Device represents the next phase of customer experience engagement as it aggregates services that consumers […]
The success of Wi-Fi technology is confirmed in new research from Strategy Analytics showing that nearly five billion home Wi-Fi devices are now in use around the world. Furthermore, the report – The Wireless Home: Assessing the Scale of the Global Home Wi-Fi Device Market – predicts that a new wave of Wi-Fi smart home […]