Movistar launches flat fee mobile TV From David Del Valle in Madrid Spain's Telefonica is making a full-frontal assault on mobile TV through its MNO Movistar, launching a flat fee of E5 per month for a 3G mobile TV offer of 26 TV channels. The TV service will provided under a free promotion until January […]
SK Telecom, South Korea’s top mobile operator, has reached a preliminary deal with T-Systems, a unit of Deutsche Telekom, to jointly enter the mobile broadcasting market in Europe and Asia. “SK Telecom and T-Systems are planning to cooperate on a variety of mobile TV technologies,” SK Telecom said. SK Telecom has been looking to overseas […]
From David Del Valle in Madrid The Spanish TV networks are considering launching pay-TV services and content on the free-to-air digital terrestrial platform following the Italy’s example. They have been making a technical trial in Extremadura, west of Spain, aimed at knowing what type of content the consumer would be interested in and testing technology. […]
US communications regulators have approved new rules designed to ensure that cable television subscribers who own analogue TV sets will still have access to local broadcast TV channels following the digital switchover in 2009. The FCC voted to endorse rules that require cable operators to continue carrying local broadcast channels that can be viewed on […]
In the race to become a major supplier of original video programming to the Web, Warner Brothers is to invest upfront in a slate of mad for web programmes. It plans to introduce 24 Web productions in a range of formats including minimovies, games and episodic television shows and has discarded its initial strategy of […]
Setanta Sports has extended its reach on broadband TV services through a deal with Tiscali, making three of its sports channels available in a monthly package for £9.99 (E14.7). Setanta will offer rugby, football and golf coverage through the deal, including live Premiership matches and the US PGA Tour, on Setanta Sports One, Setanta Sports […]
From Colin Mann in London Future IPTV deployments need to be based on fibre networks, according to Ericsson's Chief Technical Officer. HÃ¥kan Eriksson told industry analysts and media representatives at the company's Strategy and Technology Summit that a Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) takes the operator further, at a higher speed. “If you've got three […]
Apple sold its one millionth iPhone just 74 days after launching the popular product and three weeks ahead of its own projections. The news comes less than a week after Apple slashed the price of the 8GB by $200 (E144), from $599 to $399. Apple also said it was lowering the price of the 4GB […]
Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has signed a video on demand (VOD) agreement with ITI Neovision, part of the ITI Group, the Polish media and television entertainment company. The deal brings many of Sony Pictures recent movies to subscribers of ITI's digital satellite entertainment service, n. The service, to be branded nVOD, downloads the movies […]
SES Astra has signed a new contract for its interactive TV service Blucom for the Arab World. MBC, the leading free-to-air multi-channel media group in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, will use Blucom for voting, greeting, downloading, and other enhanced TV-applications for its flagship channel MBC1, its news channel Al Arabiya, and […]