Vodafone has launched Vodafone Video Pass in Spain, allowing subscribers to watch unlimited streamed TV without using their data allowance. The Video Pass is priced at €8 for 720p image resolution and €17 for HD TV content up to 1080p. With the Pass, subscribers will be able to watch all content from OTT services like […]
The Social Market Foundation (SMF) – an independent, non-partisan think tank – says that big companies in UK sectors such as broadband, mobile telephony and personal banking don’t face enough competition, meaning that consumers are hit with a lack of choice, higher prices and underinvestment, suggesting that part of the increased concentration seen in the […]
NOS and Vodafone Portugal have signed a national infrastructure development and sharing agreement, which will allow them to launch commercial offers on the shared network, starting from 2018. According to NOS, the agreement foresees the reciprocal sharing of dark fibre in about 2.6 million homes, with both company sharing the required investment equally. This partnership […]
SPI International / FilmBox is launching three live TV channels with Youfone, an MVNO in the Netherlands. Starting this week Youfone’s TV customers get access to three channels from the SPI’s worldwide TV portfolio. The line-up includes DocuBox – a channel featuring documentaries on wild life and human civilisation, FightBox – 24/7 sports channel which […]
French telco Iliad has reported H1 revenues are up 7.3 per cent year-on-year to €2,464 million. The Group continued its FTTH rollout drive during the first six months of 2017, with 900,000 new connectible sockets installed, bringing the total to 5.3 million at June 30th 2017, and some 110,000 additional subscribers connected to fibre during […]
Sky has launched its first offer that brings together Sky Mobile and Sky TV. For £35 (€38) a month the deal includes a new iPhone SE handset on a Swap24 plan, with 500MB of data, Unlimited Calls and Texts and Sky TV’s Variety bundle. Available to new customers joining Sky or existing Sky TV customers […]
A couple of months ago, Japanese media conglomerate SoftBank was attempting to engineer a merger between Intelsat and would-be satellite operator OneWeb. Intelsat’s debt-burden stymied that deal. Now SoftBank is reported to be behind a merger between US cellular telco Sprint, and Charlie Ergen’s DTH operation DISH Network. Shares in Sprint jumped 10.3 per cent […]
Following a statement of intent in February, UK communications infrastructure company Arqiva and Samsung Electronics have confirmed that the first field trial of 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) technology in the UK and Europe is now live in central London. Powered by Samsung’s 5G network solution and customer premises equipment (CPE), and using Arqiva’s 28GHz […]
Global analyst firm CCS Insight announced the launch of its new report focused on the development of the Indian telecoms industry: India — Halcyon Days Ahead in a Four-Operator Market. The report highlights the history, dynamism and consolidation of the Indian telecoms market, revealing that: A total of 68 per cent of leading sampled telecoms […]
Discovery Communications and Italian telco TIM have revealed what they say is a first of its kind Olympic Games partnership, bringing the Games to more people across more screens. In the first of these digitally-focused deals offering exclusive and differentiated content to mobile operators across Europe, TIM’s customers will gain exclusive access and will be […]