Marc Watson, CEO of BT TV, has said the telco will “stick around for the long term” with its sports channels and declared that the company had “deep pockets” to enable it to compete for premium sports rights. He said that BT wanted BT Sport to grow its whole consumer business in the UK, and […]
Thousands of BT Vision pay-TV customers face losing access to Sky Sports from this weekend, as BT prepares to launch its own sports services ahead of the new Premier League football season. BT is to make its two new BT Sport channels available to BT Vision customers on DTT. In doing so, the channels it […]
As the rate of economic growth accelerates and household incomes rise in Latin America, operators are expected to expand their multiplay and bundled offerings and increase efforts to upsell current customers to multi-service packages, according to a report from Pyramid Research. “Pyramid Research expects that by 2017, the number of multiplay households in Latin America […]
Technicolor has been selected to supply Belgacom, the leading telco in Belgium, for its next generation “BBOX3” to roll-out smart home services over its ultra-broadband network. Belgacom is deploying the MediaAccess “XTREAM” platform, Technicolor’s latest ultra-broadband gateway, that supports the innovative Vectoring technology to offer its consumers an even higher Internet speed in the future. […]
Nordic telco TeliaSonera has picked Johan Dennelind, the current chief executive of Vodacom International, as its new CEO. Telia, 37 per cent owned by the Swedish government and Europe’s sixth biggest operator by market value, has been headed by its CFO since former CEO Lars Nyberg resigned in February. His move followed an internal probe […]
BSkyB is hitting back following BT’s announcement that it would provide free access to its valuable sports channels to anyone subscribing to its BT Broadband offering. The market expects BSkyB to make significant price cuts to its own Broadband pricing structure with some sources stating that the cuts will be a “market-changer” as far as […]
Sky Deutschland has signed an agreement that will see its complete Sky package offering made available through Deutsche Telekom’s Entertain IPTV platform. Rolling out in July, over 50 new TV channels will become available on Entertain, including Sky Football Bundesliga, Sky Film and Sky World – boosting the total number of channels on Entertain in […]
Research carried out by Dataxis has confirmed that 100 per cent of the top 25 free-to-air (FTA) television networks in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru are now broadcasting a digital terrestrial TV (DTT) version of their analogue networks. Pushed by telecoms regulators that are looking to free up radio-frequency space for new wireless […]
France Telecom will become Orange on July 1st 2013. Since 2006, the Group has gradually simplified its visual identity in France and internationally for its various internal and external stakeholders. Orange is now the brand used by all of the Group’s commercial operations (fixed, mobile, TV and Internet) and corporate activities. From July 1st, the […]
Spain’s largest cable company ONO has asked the Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT) to give it back an amount of €8.3 million paid as a tax to the state-owned broadcaster RTVE over the last three years. The operator argues that the current legislation that obliges telco companies to dedicate 0.9 per cent of their revenues to […]