Mediaset Premium and Vodafone Italia have launched a joint offer of pay-TV and mobile telephony services.Subscribers to the joint offer will receive a package of mobile (400 minutes, 100 SMS and 1 GB) and pay-TV services (including live Italian and European football, sports coverage on Eurosport, over 1,000 episodes of TV series per week, documentaries, […]
Vodafone has revamped its convergent package Vodafone Ono with higher speeds, more mobile data volume and pay-TV channels free Of charge to subscribers Of Vodafone’s One L service. Vodafone One will include four fixed broadband speed options – 300Mbps, 120Mbps, 50Mbps and up to 30Mbps, with the lower-speed option available only to VDSL customers rather […]
Italian media sector revenues dropped by 3.2 per cent last year, falling from €14.8 billion in 2013 to €14.3 billion in 2014, according to the annual report of the Communications Authority (AgCom). TV maintained the lion’s share of media revenues, although the figure of €8.5 billion was down €1.5 billion, while internet revenues were up […]
A consortium of investors led by Far EasTone Telecommunications Co. and Morgan Stanley’s private equity arm are nearing a $2.3 billion deal to buy China Network Systems, Taiwan’s largest cable-television operator from Asia-focused private-equity firm MBK Partners LP, reports the Wall Street Journal. Such a deal would allow Far EasTone to bundle its mobile phone […]
Ofcom has published on the volumes of consumer complaints made to Ofcom against the major providers of telecoms and pay-TV services. The latest report covers the three-month period from January to March 2015 (Q1), and reports on the complaints made to 13 providers of fixed line telephone, fixed line broadband, pay monthly mobile and pay-TV […]
Latin America’s telecom services generated $107.7 billion (€96.5bn) in revenue in 2014, according to data published today by Dataxis. By 2018, this figure will grow by 2 per cent, reaching $109.8 billion. Data includes combined revenue from mobile, fixed telephony and fixed broadband services in the region’s seven largest markets: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, […]
Sky is calling on the UK comms industry regulator Ofcom to instigate a full market investigation to examine problems affecting consumers in the UK’s broadband marketplace. The company believes that issues covering both competition and quality of service are sufficient for Ofcom to ask the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to conduct an inquiry. The […]
Vivendi has received 1.11 billion ordinary shares (or 8.24 per cent) of Telecom Italia in exchange for 4.5 per cent of the share capital of Telefonica Brasil, in accordance with the option given to it as part of the sale of GVT to Telefonica, which closed on May 28th 2015. Separately, the Group increased its […]
Brits can now switch broadband supplier with one phone call. The new rules came into force this week and mean anyone who wants to change broadband supplier now only has to notify the company they wish to move to. That supplier should then handle every aspect of the change. The changed regime may not actually […]
After 16 days and 181 rounds, the spectrum auction for mobile broadband has concluded. All three companies, Telefónica Deutschland, Telekom Deutschland and Vodafone, were successful in bidding for spectrum in line with their business models: Undertaking Amount of spectrum Award price Telefónica Deutschland GmbH & Co. OHG 700 MHz: 900 MHz: 1800 MHz: 2 x 10 MHz 2 x 10 MHz 2 x 10 MHz € 1,198,238,000 Telekom […]