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 […]
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 […]
Belgian cable operators Telenet and are to appeal the decision by regulator group CRC to regulate the country’s broadcast market. The CRC, which includes regulators the VRM, BIPT, CSA and Medienrat, has submitted that the Belgian analogue and digital TV and broadband Internet markets must make access available to competitors on a wholesale basis. The […]
The boss of Everything Everywhere, the parent group of UK mobile phone networks Orange and T-Mobile, is standing down for “personal reasons”. Tom Alexander, who will leave the chief executive role on 31 August, said he wished “to pursue other interests”. He will be replaced by Olaf Swantee, who is currently executive vice president at […]
Four out of ten Europeans households are buying ‘bundled’ Internet, phone and TV services from a single provider, a Eurobarometer survey shows. The survey also found that 65 per cent of people limit their mobile phone calls because of cost and that calls over the Internet are becoming increasingly popular. The E-Communications Household Survey was […]
Italy’s plans to raise $3.5 billion by selling off its analogue TV spectrum are in chaos. There are more than one hundred local TV channels involved who say they will not release their spectrum unless they receive better compensation terms. Worse, Italy’s cellular phone operators, the likely buyers of the spectrum, say they will not […]
Mexican television broadcaster, Grupo Televisa has confirmed that it is in talks with the mobile network operator, Grupo Iusacell over a possible joint-venture. Televisa said that it intends to enter in the mobile phone market, either through a direct investment or a reselling arrangement, because it expects growth in the industry. The move is a […]
Ofcom has launched a consultation on how best to sell off the rights to the next generation of mobile networks. The auction of 4G spectrum will be the biggest ever, equivalent to three quarters of the mobile spectrum in use today. The last Ofcom mobile network auction for 3G in 2000 it raised £22.5 billion […]
US communications giant AT&T has moved to protect itself from future problems of spectrum exhaust resulting from burgeoning demand for mobile broadband by acquiring rival mobile operator T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom in a cash-and-stock deal currently valued at approximately $39 billion. The pair say the transaction enhances network capacity, output and quality in near […]
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 […]