A survey commissioned by BriteBill, a provider of billing and communications software for utilities, communications and media providers, has revealed that although service providers are moving at record pace to innovate, a significant engagement channel – the bill – is often overlooked in their digital transformation strategies. Predictably competition is a major driver for this […]
Zee Entertainment and fast-growing telco Reliance Jio have renewed, and expanded, their content sharing agreement. The deal brings to an end a carriage dispute which erupted in September over fees. In the process, media giant Zee will make its entire library available to Jio’s massive 227 million cellular subscribers. The deal includes content from each […]
MasMovil, Spain’s fourth largest telco operator, is launching a pay-TV offer for a promotional price of €3 – the lowest price in the market – and €5 per month from November. Along with Huawei, the company is offering the low cost package called Agile TV – based on Google’s Android TV, – including TV channels […]
Mobile telco EE, part of the BT Group, has switched on its first live 5G trial site in Montgomery Square, Canary Wharf, London. This will be the UK’s first live 5G trial, and is a major milestone in the roll-out of the next generation of mobile networks. With 150,000 people coming to the Canary Wharf […]
Deutsche Telekom and Telefónica Deutschland are consolidating their strengths to speed up the expansion of their mobile communications networks. The two companies have agreed to connect at least 5,000 Telefónica Deutschland mobile base stations with Deutsche Telekom’s fibre-optic network in the long term. In turn, Deutsche Telekom can dedicate the captured synergy effects directly to […]
The Isle of Man’s Department for Enterprise has released a National Telecommunications Strategy which will be presented to the island’s legislative body Tynwald later in October 2018. The strategy, based over six key themes and 22 actions, sets to position the Isle of Man at the forefront of telecoms innovation, with a telecommunications infrastructure that […]
US trade bodies CTIA, USTelecom, NCTA and ACA – representing America’s broadband providers – have filed a joint lawsuit in federal court challenging the State of California’s Internet Bill (SB 822), which was intended to restore the protections put in place by a (now-rescinded) 2015 FCC Order, as well as closing ‘loopholes’ that its backers […]
A study of major European broadcasters, pay-TV operators, telcos and OTT service providers by pay-TV subscription, billing and customer relationship management (CRM) specialist Paywizard reveals that all rank customer experience as a top strategic priority but the vast majority are failing to make effective use of subscriber data and analytics to engage consumers. In-depth interviews […]
Over a third of the Dutch households that are triple play customers at Ziggo (35 per cent) and KPN (34 per cent) spent more than €70 per month on their package in the second quarter, according to Telecompaper’s Triple Play Insights 2018 Q2 report. Ziggo was the most dominant presence on the premium triple play […]
Dominant Dutch telco KPN and multiplay operator VodafoneZiggo must both open up their fixed network to other providers. This is what the Autoriteit Consument & Markt (ACM) – the Netherlands Authority for Consumers & Markets says in the market analysis decision Wholesale Fixed Access, with the regulation taking effect on October 1st 2018. “We see […]