FBI tells Olympic athletes not to take their phones to China
US security agency the FBI has warned athletes headed to China for the Beijing Winter Olympics to leave their regular phones at home and take burners instead.
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NBC’s opportunity to cut through the streaming noise with Olympics
With NBCUniversal set to launch its own streaming service in 2020 the risk of content fragmentation is becoming more apparent, but this only underlines the importance of a niche.
TIM becomes first ‘official mobile broadcaster’ of Olympic Games
A new partnership between the artist formerly known as Telecom Italia and Discovery Networks to broadcast the Olympics over mobile has the potential to start a bidding war throughout Europe.
Exclusive – mobile delivers half of record BBC Olympics traffic
Coverage on mobile saw the BBC deliver record-breaking coverage for the recently-concluded 2016 Olympic Games, with the broadcaster providing Telecoms.com with some exclusive insight.
NBC and Microsoft to deliver Olympics streaming using Azure
Microsoft has announced it has partnered with broadcaster NBC for its Azure cloud platform to help deliver cross-platform multi-streaming coverage of the 2016 Olympic Games.
Olympics 2012: A real time exercise
During the summer, the UK’s mobile operator community got to hone its skills on real time network performance management, when ten million visitors descended on the country’s capital for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
BT hails “most connected” Olympics, as video traffic smashes records
UK telco BT smashed several connectivity records during the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, including record delivery levels of daily video traffic and Internet traffic on its UK retail broadband network.
BBC web traffic hit 700Gbps during Olympics
UK broadcaster the BBC delivered a staggering 2.8Pb (petabytes) of content in a single day during its coverage of the Olympics, peaking at a rate of 700Gbps as cyclist Bradley Wiggins took gold.
O2 outage causes concern ahead of Olympics
UK operator O2 suffered a network outage Wednesday afternoon that ran into Thursday morning, leaving hundreds of thousands of customers incensed, with many voicing their grievances via Twitter. Although the service has now been restored, the outage does not bode well for how the UK’s networks will cope with the influx of visitors to London expected later this month for the Olympic Games.
Will London 2012 be the first data roaming mega event?
At the recent Roaming World Congress hosted by IIR an animated panel session highlighted a number of challenges and opportunities imminent in the forthcoming London Olympics. These Olympics have been heralded as a major opportunity for medals to be won and sport to be celebrated but there are also a number of reasons to celebrate the games as a major driver for mobile roaming.
Ofcom to borrow spectrum from MoD for London Olympics
UK regulator Ofcom has outlined plans to temporarily use spectrum from the public sector to cope with increased demand for airwaves during the London 2012 Olympics.
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