The Spanish Administration will fail to meet its self-imposed deadline of Jannuary 2014 to complete the allocation of the so-called digital dividend to telco operators for 4G (LTE) services. The process will take until the end of 2014 or the beginning of 2015 as the government is unable to comply with the timetable, which was […]
French press reports say cableco Numericable may bid for MNO SFR. BFM Business says the funds behind Numericable – Carlyle, Cinven and Patrick Drahi – are to make a cash offer with a plan to merge the two at a later date. A deal would probably see Vivendi dispose of its interest in SFR. Making […]
Germany’s competition authority, the Bundeskartellamt has formally confirmed that it has prohibited plans by cable MSO Kabel Deutschland Holding (KDG) to acquire cable network operator Tele Columbus. KDG revealed February 18 that the Bundeskartellamt had judged KDG’s proposed divestment of network assets as insufficient to overcome its concerns. Andreas Mundt, President of the Bundeskartellamt, said […]
Some major US broadcast networks will not carry Dish’s advertisements for its ‘Dish Hopper’ ad-skipping technology. On Sunday, Dish managed cleverly to circumvent Fox’s apparent ban by sponsoring a racing car at the all-important Daytona 500 NASCAR race. Car 95 was the Leavine Family Racing’s Ford Fusion driven by Scott Speed, and it was neatly […]
At Mobile World Congress Ericsson is to introduce its LTE broadcast solution for mobile network operators. Data from its 2012 Mobility Report states that mobile data traffic is expected to grow 12-fold over the next five or so years. Consequently, Ericsson is bringing together three key technologies (eMBMS, HEVC and MPEG-Dash) in order to ready […]
The results of Rovi’s Consumer Mobile Streaming survey has revealed high usage rates among consumers (a majority of respondents reported streaming video to their devices at least two to three times per week), strong appetites for premium video content on mobile devices with users clamoring for more TV shows and movies, and a strong overall […]
Mobile users in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) are waiting for the right mobile video services to be deployed, according to a report by new media delivery specialists Vidiator. The report found that consumers are starting to explore the potential of smartphones and there is an appetite to pay for mobile video content. CEE’s increasingly […]
Not for the first time, the BBC has condemned satellite and wireless jamming of its signals. Peter Horrocks, global news director for the BBC’s World Service, again criticised the jamming of the BBC’s Persian service, but has now added China to its list of problem nations. Horrocks said that its World Service shortwave broadcasts to […]
Last week, satellite operator SES declared its full year 2012 results which were slightly below their original guidance to the market, with revenues not helped by further solar-array problems on its AMC-16 satellite (which is wholly leased to EchoStar) and a delayed approval of its EGNOS ‘super’ GPS cargo on SES-5. Egnos is a European […]
HBO Asia has confirmed the Asia launch of HBO GO to now TV’s HBO subscribers. HBO GO, a broadband streaming service, enables subscribers to access over 1,000 hours of popular and critically-acclaimed HBO Original content on multiple devices including PCs, MACs, tablets and mobile devices (iOS, Android and Windows 7) anywhere, anytime. The service includes […]