With every smartphone brand applying the 18:9 and wider aspect ratio screens to its newer models, the rate of adoption is expected to quicken in the second half of 2018. Smartphones using 18:9 and wider aspect screens are forecast to increase to 66 percent of total smartphone shipments in the third quarter of 2018, soaring […]
Spain will launch its first 5G auction next week to award licences and kickstart 5G deployment, with the first services scheduled for June 2020 when DTT migration is completed. The main telco operators -Telefónica, Orange, Vodafone and MasMovil- will bid for the licences valued at an initial price of €100 million. In the auction, 200 […]
Reducing churn and increasing subscriber engagement is at the heart of most mobile operator content strategies, according to report from Strategy Analytics Wireless Media Strategies (WMS) service. The objective of bundling access to premium subscription video or music services into tariffs is to upsell subscribers to higher priced tariffs with larger data allowances, drive user […]
EE data from the England vs Sweden World Cup game on July 7th saw fans use mobile to make sure they didn’t miss out, even if they were on the beach. The heat wave has driven people to the coasts – but that hasn’t stopped them watching the football. Some of the biggest peaks on […]
A study from Juniper Research found that operator-billed mobile voice revenues will fall from $354 billion in 2018 to $197 billion by 2023, an average annual decline of 10 per cent. The research identified a series of new opportunities which collectively would enable operators to sustain, or even increase, service revenues. 1) 5G & AI Enabling […]
Multiplay telco BT has unveiled a series of new free features for BT TV app customers, including the ability to download and access content on the go, as well as ‘BT TV App Extra’ – offering additional benefits such as access to a range of TV platforms including Samsung Smart TVs, Apple TV and Google […]
Findings from UK mobile telco EE suggest that its network has seen broadband Internet usage drop drastically throughout all World Cup games. Mobile demand rose as fans streamed the match on the go or moved offline altogether and tuned in on terrestrial television – as well as sharing their reactions on social during half time, […]
Comcast, the US telco giant, has warned its mobile subscribers – even those on an unlimited plan – that they will start seeing video quality drop from 720p to 480p when streamed using mobile data. The company said in a statement that this will allow those paying “By T he Gig” to save money, as […]
With 58.4 million subscriptions by the end of 2017, the Colombian mobile market was the fourth largest in Latin America, accounting for 8.3 per cent of the region’s mobile subscriptions, according to GlobalData, a data and analytics company. Over the next five years, mobile operators will add a combined 5.2 million subscriptions to the market, […]
Total pay-TV and telecom services revenue in Indonesia is poised to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.7 per cent over the period 2017-2022, mainly driven by growth in mobile data (4G) and fixed broadband revenues, according to data and analytics company GlobalData. Mobile service subscriptions in Indonesia reached 426.6 million at […]