Responding to heightened media speculation, Vodafone has confirmed it is in discussions with cable MSO Liberty Global (LG) regarding the creation of a joint venture in the Netherlands that would incorporate both companies’ local operating businesses. The telco says discussions are ongoing and do not extend beyond the creation of a joint venture in the […]
A cyber attack on TalkTalk in October cost the company as much as £80 million (€105m) but fewer customers than feared opted to end their subscriptions. The numbers affected turned out to be far fewer than originally anticipated, with limited data stolen from approxiamtely 157,000 people, but the bad publicity did cause a spike in […]
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Alongside unveiling a company reorganisation, BT’s results for the third quarter and nine months to December 31st 2015 show the telco added 97,000 TV subscribers during the quarter, reaching 1.4 million. The company said that in its BT Consumer division, it was seeing good demand from its broadband customers for BT Mobile and new BT […]
UK telco BT has revealed a new organisational structure that will take effect from April. This follows its acquisition of EE, the UK’s leading mobile network operator. Under this structure, there will be six lines of business. Two will serve consumers, two will focus on businesses and the public sector – one in the UK […]
Barbara van Schewick, Professor of Law and Helen L. Crocker Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School, Director of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, has suggested that US telco T-Mobile’s Binge On service introduced in November 2015 that offers ‘unlimited’ video streaming from selected providers violates key net neutrality principles as currently offered […]
Netflix has been blocked by Indonesia’s biggest ISP, significantly disrupting its move into the country. The state-owned Telekom Indonesia said it had concerns about the content Netflix was offering and accused it of failing to have a necessary business permit. Netflix announced earlier this month that it had added 130 countries, including Indonesia, to its […]
Time Warner Cable (TWC) reported its best video and high-speed data customer metrics for years in the fourth quarter. It added 54,000 basic video customers and 32,000 for the year, its first 12-month positive customer growth in that segment since 2006. TWC also added 281,000 high-speed data customers in the quarter, one million for the […]
Omani telco Omantel is launching Omantel TV+, describing it as a unique TV broadcast Home service based on Internet Protocol using Home Internet. The new Omantel TV+ service will enable subscribers to watch news, sports, entertainment and the latest movies, with 450+ popular TV channels, 1100+ movies and 3500+ TV series. In addition, they will […]
An all-party group of British MPs has called for the formal separation of BT’s infrastructure subsidiary Openreach from the telco, citing BT’s “lack of ambition and under-investment” as being responsible for parts of the UK suffering from slow broadband speeds. In an open letter published in the Daily Telegraph they say that whether at home […]