According to research by global analyst firm Ovum, China Mobile is ranked in first place, Vodafone in second, and India’s Bharti Airtel in third as the three largest mobile operating groups in the world in terms of proportionate subscriptions. Mai Barakat, Senior Analyst, Middle East and Africa, Telecoms says “based on the rankings in late […]
Research carried out by Alcatel-Lucent has revealed that consumers are increasingly looking to service providers to offer them high-definition voice and video calling services over LTE and Wi-Fi. In a study of 5,500 smartphone owners in the US, UK, Japan and Brazil, Alcatel-Lucent also identified how new technologies such as wearables, connected homes and cars, […]
According to a forecast by the independent telecoms analyst firm Ovum, total handset sales are expected to grow from 1.88 billion to 2.16 billion units between 2014 and 2020, at a compound annual growth (CAGR) rate of 2.4 per cent. Smartphones will comprise 95 per cent of global handset sales by 2020, up from 65 […]
Sling Media, a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corp, has unveiled the Slingbox M2 — a new entertainment experience designed to meet the ongoing shift in consumers’ television viewing habits. With the Slingbox M2 bundle, Sling Media says that today’s ultra-connected generation will have uncompromised access to their live and recorded home TV content from […]
Amazon has confirmed that HBO NOW – the broadcaster’s OTT service – is available on Fire tablets, and will be available on Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick in the coming weeks. “If there’s one thing Fire TV and Fire tablet customers are telling us, it’s that they love to watch their favourite movies […]
Research from TDG finds that a third of US broadband users have used a second-screen sports app while watching a game on TV. Engagement will further broaden and deepen during the next ten years as more leagues and conferences introduce their own apps, and as these apps become better attuned to the needs of live […]
Apple Watch is set to boom and, according to Futuresource Consulting, a large part of this will come from existing iPhone users. The latest perspectives report has covered six countries and found that 20 per cent of iPhone users intend to purchase an Apple Watch in the next 12 months. In the USA in particular, […]
Motive Television has announced updates to the TabletTV US Apps that will allow TabletTV users who own a Chromecast to cast what they are viewing on their tablets directly to their home TV screen. The new app updates are available free to TabletTV US users at the Apple and Google Play app stores respectively. In […]
Next-generation television services specialist TiVo has confirmed that for the first time, TiVo users can access their content on TV via a third party consumer electronics device. TiVo users can now stream their recorded shows to Apple TV via AirPlay. TiVo says its users have yet another way to watch their favourite shows, on another […]
US television broadcasters will reach even more viewers with robust, digital over-the-air ATSC 3.0 signals, the improved broadcast transmission system under development now with key elements being field tested in Cleveland this summer, with encouraging results for the delivery of 4K Ultra HD content and mobile TV streams. Under an experimental broadcast licence from the […]