Fox International Channels (FIC), a 21st Century Fox company, is buying Setanta Africa, the broadcaster whose television channel bouquet takes football, rugby, martial arts and other sports to a million homes in sub-Saharan Africa.

The acquisition is subject to approval by the Irish Competition Authority. Setanta is an international sports broadcaster based in Dublin, Ireland. It was formed in 1990, initially to facilitate the broadcasting of Irish sporting events. The company now operates in Ireland, Northern Ireland, Asia, Africa, and Australia.

Netgem announced consolidated revenues of €24.1 million (US$32.84 million) for the third quarter of 2013 taking its nine-month consolidated revenue to €57.9 million (US$78.9 million).

Netgem said sales of the new T-Box in Australia and client subscriber growth in Europe and Latin America increased its international business by 75 percent as French revenues continued to slip during the quarter ending September 30, 2013.

The ability to deliver high quality, high definition video streams across home area networks to devices using multiple formats and multiple screen sizes is crucial to the success of content and service providers. Pay-TV providers, particularly cable providers looking to avoid becoming simply a "dumb" pipe, are increasingly implementing plans to provide content to consumers via multiple types of devices within and outside of the home, according to MRG.

United Kingdom’s Office of Fair Trading has referred the acquisition by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson of Red Bee Media Limited to the Competition Commission (CC).

OFT, which is mandated to make sure businesses are in open, fair and vigorous competition in order to protect consumers, said it found that the merger might lead to an increase in prices or a worsening of service levels in the supply of linear playout services in the UK.

Sydney-based Macquarie Group Limited ,  a global investment banking and diversified financial services company, is reported to be auctioning off its 25 percent stake in Arqiva, a telecommunications company that provides infrastructure and broadcast transmission facilities in the United Kingdom and Ireland. 

Macquairie, according to Financial Times, is anticipating GBP 600 million (US$971.17 million) for the stake.

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the specialized agency of the United Nations for information and communication technology (ICT), announced today that the State of Qatar has been selected as host country for ITU Telecom World 2014, following a competitive selection process among bidding ITU Member States.

As operators, broadcasters and content providers continue to look for ways to monetise content delivery, next week’s CDN World Summit will exclusively reveal ground-breaking insights, provide future forecasts for CDN, and give visitors the opportunity to meet all of the major players within the ecosystem. As part of its evolution, the event will this year explore key areas such as Network Function Virtualisation (NFV), Software Defined Networking (SDN), Edge Caching and the Cloud.

Globecomm Systems Inc. has reported a drop in its revenue to US$ 80.6 million during the fiscal 2013 fourth quarter, compared to US$ 104.8 million in the same period last year, as the company completed a major government project in January 2013.

The decrease in revenue, equivalent to 23.1 percent, resulted in the reduction of net income to $4.6 million, or $0.20 of diluted net income per common share, compared to net income of $7.1 million, or $0.31 net income per common share in the same period last year.

Quintech Electronics & Communications is acquiring 100 percent of all shares of DEV Systemtechnik GmbH & Co. KG. Quintech, headquartered in Indiana, PA, supplies RF signal routing equipment for over 24 years. Quintech’s product line includes matrix switches, routers, splitters, combiners, amplifiers, and LNB power supplies.

DEV Systemtechnik, headquartered in Friedberg, Germany, produces RF and RF over fiber signal routing equipment, including the Optribution product line.

According to a Carrier ID survey, carried out by the Satellite Interference Reduction Group (IRG) and Newtec, 93% of respondents suffer from satellite interference at least once a year, with more than half suffering at least once a month and 17% continuously in their day to day operations.