Orange Spain plans to start selling Smart TVs at reduced rates from December 1st in a bid to compete with Telefonica and boost take-up of its convergent services. However, unlike Telefonica, which will give away Smart TVs connected to the company’s Movistar+ service alone, Orange will sell “unlocked” Samsung and LG sets with screen sizes […]
Baby Boomers comprise nearly a third of US adult broadband users and are significantly more likely than other segments to subscribe to traditional pay-TV. According to Broadband Boomers: A Consumer Snapshot, TDG’s newest data-driven analysis of this vital but oft-overlooked consumer segment, this makes them excellent candidates for the high-revenue sales of operator value-added services. […]
UK regulator Ofcom has ruled that Sky is no longer obliged to offer its all-important Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 channels on a regulated wholesale basis. Ofcom says: “The ‘wholesale must-offer’ regulation was introduced in 2010 to promote choice and innovation for consumers through greater competition in pay TV. Last year, Ofcom began […]
A few weeks ago Rupert and James Murdoch – and other media leaders – met with India’s Prime Minister Narenda Modi in New York. At the time Rupert Murdoch tweeted “Great hour with Indian PM Modi. Best leader with best policies since independence, but massive task to achieve in most complex nation.” Also present with […]
Describing it as “the biggest reimagining of Sky in its history”, Jeremy Darroch, CEO of the UK pay-TV operator, has launched Sky Q, a family of products which it says are designed to reflect the way people consume content nowadays. It also confirmed that Sky Q would be UltraHD ready in advance of the launch […]
A couple of recent polls have revealed that Quality of Experience is an important factor in satisfaction and subscription renewal with OTT services. You may feel this falls into the ‘You don’t say?’ or even the ‘Do bears use wooded areas as lavatories?’ category of surveys. But behind the obvious are challenging technology questions and […]
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a number of BT Sport ads for making misleading price claims. The campaign referred to the telco’s Champions League coverage and said BT Sport was “free” for those signing up to or renewing broadband and TV packages. But the ads drew 26 complaints, almost all from members of […]
Findings from Leichtman Research Group suggest that the thirteen largest pay-TV providers in the US – representing about 95 per cent of the market – lost about 190,000 net video subscribers in 3Q 2015, compared to a loss of about 155,000 subscribers in 3Q 2014. The top pay-TV providers account for 94.0 million subscribers — […]
South Africa’s Multichoice is currently the sole pay-TV operator in adjacent Botswana, but according to a BusinessWeek report, China’s StarTimes Group is determined to enter Botswana and in addition expand its current 15 country presence to compete aggressively with Multichoice. StarTimes vice president, Zhao Yue Qin, told journalists: “We want to expose the African market, […]
Sky’s CEO Jeremy Darroch has told analysts that he sees further opportunities for price rises in its UK and Ireland home market. Darroch was bullish as he spoke at the annual Morgan Stanley investor conference in Barcelona, saying that neither the rise of Netflix-type services or the threat from rivals such as BT Sport had […]