ICFLIX, the Middle East and North Africa’s leading VoD streaming service, has announced the start of an exclusive partnership with Maroc Telecom, which will allow Maroc Telecom customers to use the service at a discounted price. “Maroc Telecom – a pioneer in the Moroccan industry, will enable us to reach a greater number of viewers […]
Swedish telco Com Hem has reported its Q2 2015 numbers. Commenting on the results, Anders Nilsson, CEO at Com Hem, said: “Overall, the business has delivered a strong set of results during the second quarter of 2015. Revenue grew by 4 per cent compared to the corresponding quarter last year with underlying EBITDA growing by […]
John Petter, CEO of BT’s Consumer Division has called on UK comms regulator Ofcom to broaden the scope of its Digital Communications Review (DCR) to include pay-TV, citing high prices and poor outcomes for consumers arising from a lack of competition in pay-TV. Speaking to the Broadcasting Press Guild, Petter compared the falling prices, rising […]
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 […]