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Networks want to charge mobile content providers

Mobile phone operators are stepping up their campaign to charge Internet content providers for data traffic on their networks. Franco Bernabè, chairman of the GSMA, the mobile operators’ representative body, told FT that there could be “no free lunch” for the content providers. Network operators are hoping a mobile summit at the European Commission next […]

February 14, 2011

Vodafone joins Spanish hybrid scramble

Vodafone has confirmed the November launch of its IPTV service, first reported here on September 1. Vodafone Internet TV will use a hybrid DTT solution with wi-fi provided by Wyplay. Vodafone joins the other Spanish telcos in shaking up its proposition. Jazztel, pulled out of the IPTV market closing down its pay-TV platform Jazztelia TV, […]

October 6, 2010From David del Valle in Madrid

Vodafone on IPTV charge

Vodafone is entering the Spanish IPTV market with the launch in the last quarter of this year of an offer in direct competition with Telefonica-controlled Movistar TV (formerly Imagenio), the leading IPTV player with 750,000 subscribers. Meanwhile, Vodafone Deutschland plans to launch an IPTV service at the IFA trade fair this weekend, according to the […]

September 1, 2010