Insight TV has announced that its millennial-focused linear UHD service has launched on Vodafone TV in the Czech Republic. Insight TV is the first UHD-only channel to launch on the Vodafone TV platform in the Czech Republic and content will be available for viewers in the original language and Czech. The launch brings the number […]
One in four Portuguese (24 per cent) over the age of 15 subscribe to a streaming platform, according to the first edition of Marktest’s BStream study on SVoD services. The study analysed services operating in Portugal (Apple TV, Disney+, HBO, MEO Filmes e Séries, Netflix, NOS Play, OPTO SIC, Amazon Prime Video), as well as […]
As part of its recently announced redundancy plan, Vodafone Spain will close down all its own 34 stores in the country, affecting some 237 workers. All these employees will be added to a definitive list of 509 to be dismissed (slightly down on the initially announced 515) for “economic, productive and organisational reasons”. The company […]
Vodafone is to add Facebook Watch to Vodafone TV in Europe, becoming the first pay-TV operator in the region to offer the service on its set-top boxes. Vodafone TV is currently offering a cloud-based television service to 22 million customers across 10 markets in Europe, combining a variety of live and on-demand video content in […]
Orange Spain is strengthening its TV division with a new TV director, Ignacio García-Legaz, the current TV director at Vodafone. He will directly report to the CEO, Jean François Fallacher when he takes up the role in October. With the appointment, Orange aims to give a boost to its TV business as it prepares for […]
Analysts at investment bank Berenberg, while admitting that the John Malone-controlled suite of businesses under the Liberty Global banner represents a “complex case” to analyse, nevertheless – and it says with its eyes wide open – believes that Liberty’s prospects are solid. Berenberg is raising its advice on Liberty Global to ‘BUY’ (from ‘HOLD’) and […]
Vodafone Spain has announced a new cut in its workforce of up to 515 people, around 12 per cent of its staff, due to tough market conditions. This is the second job reduction plan after the company shed 1,000 workers, 20 per cent of the staff, in 2019. The new redundancy plan will mainly affect […]
Vodacom is part of a consortium that has won an operating licence for a cellular service in Ethiopia. The consortium is made up of acknowledged experts in the supply and operation of a telephone service and beat another applicant (MTN Grp) which was not successful. The Global Partnership consortium comprises includes Safaricom (in which Vodacom […]
A report from Vodafone and WPI Economics calls on the UK Government to put the fast deployment of digital technology at the core of its forthcoming net zero strategy. The research shows that the adoption of technology in manufacturing, transport and agriculture could reduce the UK’s overall emissions by as much as 4 per cent […]
Portugal had 4.3 million pay-TV subscribers at the end of the first half of 2021, or 3.5 per cent more than in the same period last year. This accounts for a 94.2 per cent penetration rate for the service, up 5 per cent year-on-year, according to the Anacom, the Portuguese telecom sector regulator. The major […]