Telecom Italia is the leading Italian operator in terms of fibre optic coverage, reaching 30 cities (which will increase to 33 in December), as well as 3 million homes covered with VDSL2. By year’s end, a dozen cities will be completely covered with VDSL2, while in the others coverage will rise to almost 50 per […]
BT has reported that more than two million customers are now signed up to its BT Sport TV service, which it launched in August this year to compete with Sky Sports. BT saw six-month pre-tax profits of £948 million (€1.16bn), a fall of 13 per cent from the same period in 2012. Gavin Patterson, Chief […]
BT has stepped up its efforts to attract TV customers with a major launch of new channels and by offering customers the chance to build their own TV package made up of just the content they actually want to watch. BT’s core Entertainment pack – £7 (€8.21) a month – includes 18 popular pay TV […]
Primacom, Germany’s fourth-largest cable operator, wants an active role in the market’s consolidation, according to its managing director, and has already made bids for certain assets of Tele Columbus and for Deutsche Telekabel. “We are hunters not hunted. We are ready to be a consolidator”, Wolf Waschkuhn, managing director and supervisory board member of Primacom […]
US telco AT&T has reported that total U-verse subscribers (TV and high speed Internet) reached 10 million in the third quarter. U-verse TV had its second-highest net adds ever and best net adds in almost five years, adding 265,000 subscribers to reach 5.3 million in service. AT&T now has more pay TV subscribers than any […]
Irish telco eircom has joined the band of incumbent operators offering a quad-play service by introducing eVision, which it says provides “a great range of the most popular channels in Ireland at significantly lower prices than the competition”. With eVision, customers can choose from a wide range of packages containing add-on services including HD Channels, […]
UK’s BT and LTE mobile operator EE have made an exclusive agreement for EE to provide mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) services to BT’s enterprise customers. The multi-year agreement, subject to final contract, further strengthens the existing relationship in telecommunications between BT and EE. BT, which has around 88,000 employees worldwide, decided to seek a […]
Telecom Italia Media and Italian multimedia group L’Espresso have signed a non-binding term sheet for the possible merger between Telecom Italia Media Broadcasting (TIMB) and the operations of the network operator Rete A (controlled by L’Espresso). This merger, which would integrate five multiplexes with national coverage (three from TIMB and two from Rete A) on […]
UK telco BT’s Openreach infrastructure business has decorated 400 of its vans with liveries designed to drive awareness of both the availability of fibre and the link between superfast broadband and the next generation of home entertainment. The maxi vans, which are being driven by hundreds of recently recruited Openreach apprentices and engineers, are adorned […]
Vodafone has unveiled New Zealand’s first – and only – full TV service using the new ultra-fast broadband network, giving Kiwis a real incentive to move to fibre. In partnership with New Zealand’s national television networks – SKY, TVNZ, MediaWorks and Maori TV– Vodafone TV gives customers a choice of Freeview|HD or SKY channels and […]