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3GSM World Congress was abuzz last month with operators competing to appear the biggest, brightest and best proponents of mobile TV. The results are in from early trials of DVB-H in Europe, from O2, Canal+/SFR, Telia, Vodafone Deutschland, and DMB-based trials from BT/Virgin Mobile. While there's a strong possibility that...
Skype, the Voice over IP (VoIP) software company recently acquired for USD2.6 billion by Internet commerce company eBay, is making a big push to win over small-businesses of up to ten workers. VoIP is a cost benefit to businesses in general, although the growth of internet telephony services in the small and medium enterprise (SME) market has...
Developments in Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) are fast moving, and it is easy to lose track. It has been a busy few weeks in the world of IPTV...
Hutchison 3 UK announced on 27 March 2006, using research from the Official Charts Company (OCC), that its mobile music downloads had accounted for 53% of the mobile music download market in the UK since the beginning of 2006. On the same day, Vodafone announced a significant reduction in its...
As of December 2005, Germany remained the largest broadband market in Europe by total volume of customers, with over 10.6 million broadband subscribers. However in terms of household and small–medium enterprise broadband site penetration, Germany continues to lag behind other advanced European markets at...
At the beginning of April 2006, UK mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) Virgin Mobile finally accepted a GBP962 million bid from cable operator NTL. The consolidated company (the second biggest broadband player on the British market) will be the first company in the UK to provide broadband, fixed telephony, television and mobile services in one bundle.
Oracle Corp. announced on 12 April 2006 its intention to acquire Portal Software, a billing and revenue-management software provider for the communications and media sectors. The move follows Oracle's other recent acquisitions including...
Carphone Warehouse (CPW) has launched a free broadband offer that has been hyped as intensifying a broadband price war in the already highly competitive UK broadband market. The marketing angle will not come as news to the industry, as the service will not be free but cost GBP20.99 a month for line rental, broadband and...
Quick on the heels of Google’s leaked GDrive, Microsoft has recently announced that the latest addition to it’s Microsoft Live portfolio (which was originally launched in November 2005 with search, news and email, and will eventually include the complete Microsoft Office Live suite) will be Microsoft Live Drive, an online storage solution.
In March this year, AT&T announced that it was to buy Bell South for USD67 billion. This followed last November's acquisition of AT&T by SBC, which led to SBC's rebranding as AT&T. In the consolidated US environment, Verizon is the only other significant player in the fixed telco space but both of the big fixed carriers face growing competition from other sources.
