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Israel mobile nets look to TV

Israel’s two largest mobile phone operators Cellcom and Partner Communications are planning television-over-Internet services. Haim Romano, Partner’s chief executive, said the company was working to accelerate TV Internet services. “Once the conditions are ripe, Partner will offer an innovative, quality and attractive solution also in this area,” he said. Cellcom CEO Nir Sztern also said […]

August 14, 2012

BBC says MNOs must pay for Freeview filters

A BBC director has called on mobile network operators to pay for the costs of filters to stop 4G mobile services interfering with Freeview. John Tate, Director of Policy and Strategy for the BBC, told The Independent that operators should be forced to pay the costs of signal filter equipment under the ‘polluter pays’ principle, […]

July 2, 2012

Televisa to buy half of Iusacell

Mexican regulators have given the green light to television giant Televisa to buy half of a small mobile phone company owned by its only significant competitor in the TV market, as long as conditions designed to “avoid the risk of collusion” are met. Televisa currently controls about two-thirds of free TV channels in Mexico, while […]

June 15, 2012

Sky mobile network?

Is Sky planning its own mobile network? According to reports, it has been in talks with both Orange and T-Mobile as it ponders a bid for the airwaves put up for sale by their Everything Everywhere consortium. Mobile would make Sky a full-fledged multi-play provider with 4G capability. The investment required would be £3-4 billion […]

May 28, 2012

Everything Everywhere urges faster 4G rollout

Everything Everywhere has revealed it is to push for a faster rollout of 4G networks in the UK with the 4G Britain campaign set to target business leaders and consumer heads. The Orange and T-Mobile JV is pushing to bring the UK in line with the likes of the US which already benefits from a […]

April 30, 2012

CDNs help cellcos combat OTT

Mobile operators may finally have a weapon in the battle for Over the Top (OTT) service revenues, according to Strategy Analytics’ Mobile Broadband Opportunities (MBO) service report – Mobile Content Delivery Networks Reduce Media Delivery Costs and Create OTT Revenue Opportunity. According to the market intelligence firm, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) will become a significant […]

April 11, 2012

Virgin France enters quad-play market

Virgin Mobile France is launching a multi-play box and quad-play package for €29.99 a month, bringing it into competition with Free, SFR, Orange and Bouygues Telecom. The H@ppy4 proposition is priced below the compeition, undercutting its rivals. It offers a second more expensive bundle, including four hours of calls and 3GB of data for €39.99. […]

April 4, 2012

3 threatens legal action over 4G auction

UK Mobile network 3 has warned is ready to take legal action against Ofcom and derail the already long-delayed 4G spectrum auction. The sell-off, which could raise as much as £4 billion (€4.8bn) for the Treasury, is scheduled for early 2013. 3, the newest and smallest mobile network in the UK with a 10 per […]

March 26, 2012

Dish plans mobile satellite LTE network

Dish Network has unveiled plans to deploy a mobile and satellite network based on LTE. The US pay-TV operator said in a filing with the Federal Communications Commission that the network should offer commercial services by 2014. Dish then could sell the service to other carriers or directly to customers, but the company’s full plans […]

August 24, 2011

Swisscom adds mobile subscription to TV packages

On August 2nd 2011 Swisscom is launching a new Vivo Casa package. In addition to Swisscom TV, fixed-line telephony and Internet, the new Vivo Tutto package will also include a mobile subscription. The package will allow customers to make free mobile calls to the Swisscom fixed network and mobile network. Over 300,000 Swisscom customers currently […]

July 28, 2011