Norwegian telco Telenor has struck an agreement to sell its Telenor Satellite subsidiary to state-owned space outfit Space Norway. Telenor said the sale price for the satellite division will be NOK2.36 billion on an enterprise value basis. As Space Norway is wholly owned by the Norwegian Government, the transaction is subject to approval by the […]
Swedish TV operator, Telenor, has deployed Teleste’s Argus Luminato Manager to manage its edge QAM devices. The new software will help Telenor carry out the management of the devices remotely. The company had been operating Teleste’s Luminato 4X4 headend as an edge QAM platform since 2021. Teleste’s Argus Luminato Manager makes it possible to run […]
Viaplay Group and Telenor have agreed a new long-term distribution partnership in Sweden and Norway that will provide Telenor’s 1 million TV customers access to Viaplay sports, series and film content. Telenor will continue to distribute the Viaplay streaming service and Viaplay linear TV and pay-TV channels in the two countries, along with the V […]
Jussi Tolvanen has been named as the new president and CEO of Telenor-owned Finnish service provider DNA. The company’s current president and CEO, Jukka Leinonen, will become the full-time head of the Telenor Group’s Nordic Cluster. Tolvanen will take up his new role on October 11. He is currently the CEO of Microsoft in Finland and previously […]
Allente, the joint venture between Telenor and Nordic Entertainment combining the former Canal Digital and Viasat pay TV platforms, has named Helge Ølsen as its new chief financial officer. Ølsen was previously CFO of Telenor Myanmar, having earlier held roles in mergers and acquisitions and investor relations within Telenor Group. He will take up his […]
Jonas Gustafsson has been named as the new CEO of Allente, the pay TV joint venture between Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) and Telenor, Gustafsson, whose appointment is effective as of today, was previously CFO and head of operations at Allente, and prior to that CEO of Viasat Consumer and acting CEO for NENT Group […]
4K wildlife and Nature channel Love Nature has launched on Telenor Sweden. Subscribers to the platform will have access to Love Nature’s programming on its linear channel and on the platform’s VOD service, as part of a three-year carriage deal. The launch in Sweden follows the channel’s roll out last fall on Telenor’s linear platform in […]
The Intelsat 10-02/Thor satellite at the 1° West position is to see its life extended thanks to a pioneering space mission by Northrop Grumman Corporation and its wholly-owned subsidiary, SpaceLogistics. SpaceLogistics has successfully completed the docking of a special Mission Extension Vehicle-2 (MEV-2) to the Intelsat satellite to deliver life-extension services. According to Intelsat, Northrop […]
Satellite operator Intelsat has launched Galaxy 30, its latest geosynchronous orbit satellite that will primarily provide high-performance TV distribution service to its North American customers. The launch vehicle also carried Northrop Grumman’s Mission Extension Vehicle 2 (MEV-2). The existing Intelsat 10-02 satellite is scheduled to be the latter’s first customer in early 2021. Both craft […]
Ad tech outfit Yospace and middleware provider Nordija have completed an integration that will Nordija bring Yospace´s server-side dynamic ad insertion technology to its customers. Pre-integration with Yospace will enable Nordija´s customers to deliver ads across multiple devices and platforms, according to the pair. The pair are working together to deliver a project for Telenor […]
