Pockets of growth in the Tablet market was found among smaller vendors like Huawei, TCL-Alcatel, and LG while market leaders Apple and Samsung suffered double-digit shipment declines in Q1 2015, pushing the total market 8 per cent lower year-on-year. According to Strategy Analytics, smaller vendors are picking up steam in this environment, but Apple and […]
Telefonica’s Movistar TV has managed to triple the number of subscribers to 2.1 million at the end of the first quarter of the year, It gained 255,000 pay-TV subs to March against 58,000 a year earlier. Its convergence offer Movistar Fusion now has 3.9 million subs, up 21 per cent year-on-year, with 50 per cent […]
Commercial broadcaster ITV has posted 14 per cent growth in net revenue for the three months ending March 2015. Total revenue was £665 million (€920m), up from £585 million during the same period last year. Broadcast and online revenue was also up by 10 per cent, to £530 million, along with the studios division, which […]
A Spanish Court (Audiencia Nacional) has ruled that the strike affecting the end of La Liga season is not legal and has thus suspended it. Now the football matches scheduled for end of the season will be played and TV transmissions will not be affected. The Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) had suspended the remaining games […]
UK comms provider TalkTalk has reported a strong year of growth driven by more customers choosing bundled ‘quad–play’ phone, broadband, TV and mobile packages. In the last 12 months, over a million TV, broadband, fibre and mobile customers joined TalkTalk, which the operator says demonstrates the demand for value for money services. The popularity of […]
DirecTV-15, the pay-TV broadcaster’s latest satellite, has been placed into position atop the giant Ariane-5 launch rocket in Kourou, French Guiana. It is currently scheduled to launch on May 27th. DirecTV-15 is the main passenger on the rocket. But just below it sits a smaller satellite, Sky Mexico-1, which will serve Mexico and is part-owned […]
Arianespace’s CEO Stephane Israel, in a briefing to the French National Assembly’s Economic Affairs Committee, has stressed that Arianespace can successfully compete with arch-rival Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket system. SpaceX has been winning a significant amount of business from Arianespace over the past few years, while Arianespace has also been challenged by lower-cost (although not […]
US telco AT&T and Hulu have signed a deal that will bring the popular Hulu subscription streaming service to AT&T customers through AT&T’s websites and mobile applications. “We know that our customers want to be able to access video on multiple devices,” said Andrew Goodman, associate vice president, AT&T content acquisition. “So we’re excited to […]
India’s broadcasting and telco regulator is setting tough new rules for cable operators across the nation. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has formally written to all MSOs with a list of new rules, some of which are already in place, but TRAI is now warning MSO’s and smaller local operators (LCO) that it […]
In a move to make it more competitive against recent market entrant Netflix, Australian TV and movie streaming service Quickflix has entered an agreement with Foxtel in which the Presto movie and TV subscription video on demand streaming service will be distributed by Quickflix to existing and future customers. Presto will be available within Quickflix […]