A study from WARC has found that global advertising spend is now on course to close out 2025 with growth of 8.9 per cent to $1.19 trillion (€1.6tn), an upgrade of 1.5 percentage points (pp) from WARC’s September forecast due to strong results from Big Tech platforms and a muted impact on global trade from […]

According to a report from Dell’Oro Group, a source for market information about the telecommunications, security, networks and data centre industries, a sharp contraction in China spending kept worldwide Wireless LAN (WLAN) growth from hitting double-digits in Q3 2025. “Cisco was late to the Wi-Fi 7 party,” commented Siân Morgan, Research Director at Dell’Oro Group. […]

China launched a group of internet satellites into orbit on December 9th reports China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the State-owned space contractor. The satellites, the 15th group of low-orbit hardware in China’s State-owned internet network, were lifted by a Long March 6A carrier rocket at 6:11 am (Beijing time) from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch […]

Declan Ganley, CEO at Rivada Space Networks, says his firm has won a long-running dispute with Chinese-backed entities over Rivada’s rights to satellite spectrum. He commented: “I received good Thanksgiving day news from my excellent legal teams in Liechtenstein and Germany.” Ganley added: “[The decision is] a crushing victory over Chinese backed lawfare as we […]

5G Standalone (SA) deployments have triggered a notable 2025 growth in the number of communications service providers (CSPs) offering differentiated connectivity commercial models based on 5G SA Network Slicing – where CSPs guarantee quality of service for customer use cases through the allocation of slices of the network, according to the November 2025 Ericsson Mobility […]

The total fixed communications services revenue in China is expected to see sluggish compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 0.7 per cent in its revenue from $303 billion (€261.6bn) in 2025 to $314 billion in 2030, mainly due to drop in average revenue per user (ARPU) levels, forecasts GlobalData, the data and analytics company. GlobalData’s […]

Giant cinema screen specialist IMAX reported its best-ever Q3 numbers, outperforming market expectations. IMAX achieved double-digit revenue growth, record-setting box office, and profits that left analysts impressed. The company pulled in $106.7 million (€91.7m) in Q3 revenue, a 16.6 per cent rise from last year that easily topped expectations. Operating cash flow hit a record […]

Measat has entered a tripartite strategic alliance agreement with Beijing Guodian High-Tech Technology (Guodian Gaoke’, and China StarWin Science & Technology to offer Internet of Things (IoT) services supported by the Tianqi Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Constellation in Malaysia. Under the collaboration, Measat will be the authorised service provider for the Tianqi Constellation’s satellite-based IoT […]

China’s telecom and pay-TV services revenue is predicted to grow, albeit at a modest compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 0.5 per cent, from $471 billion (€400.7bn) in 2024 to $483 billion in 2029 with broad-based declines in mobile voice service revenues offsetting expected gains in mobile data segment, according to forecasts from GlobalData, the […]

China’s space infrastructure is expanding rapidly, supported by commercial and private enterprises, as well as technological advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI), analytics, quantum computing, and 6G research. These developments are tightly integrated with China’s ambitious plans to deliver next-generation connectivity solutions. According to intelligence firm ABI Research, China’s Serviceable Addressable Market (SAM) for satellite D2C subscription services […]