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Hong Kong’s Now TV secures NBA basketball
PCCW-owned pay TV operator Now TV has secured rights to air top-tier North American basketball…
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Ukraine’s Volia taps Ateme for disaster recovery
Ukrainian cable operator Volia has tapped video technology outfit Ateme to supply disaster recovery for…
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Altice to move away from suppliers involved in Portuguese corruption case
Altice International and Altice France has said it has taken action to transition away from…
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Optus CEO resigns after massive network outage
Singtel-owned Australian service provider Optus’s CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin has resigned. Bayer Rosmarin’s departure follows…
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Swiss court rules against UPC in ice-hockey case
The Swiss Federal administrative court has confirmed a ruling by the country’s competition watchdog that…
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Fitch downgrades Tele Columbus on debt concerns
Ratings agency Fitch has downgraded German cable operator Tele Columbus’s long-term issuer default rating to…
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Liberty Global’s Fries: ‘Grinding’ European telecoms industry needs consolidation
The European telecoms business is badly in need of consolidation, according to Liberty Global CEO…
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Screach launches new MMA platform with BeIN Sports as partner
Enterprise streaming platform Screach is launching a new aggregated offering that allows commercial venues to show…
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Vodafone’s TV base declines as it prepares for German law change
Vodafone’s TV base in Germany declined by 213,000 in the fiscal first half of the…
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TNT Sports agrees UEFA Women’s Champions League deal with DAZN
UK and Ireland sports join-venture TNT Sports has boosted its European club football offering after…
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Xavier Niel takes stake in Belgium’s Proximus
Xavier Niel, proprietor of French and pan-European telecom group Iliad Telecom, has taken a 6%…
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Digi sees pay TV base grow
Romanian and international service provider Digi saw its domestic Romanian pay TV base grow buy…
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United Group acquires Bulgarian pay TV outfit Bulsatcom
South-eastern Europe pay TV and telecoms operatort United Group is to acquire Bulgarian satellite pay TV…
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Zegona raises equity as it moves to take over Vodafone Spain
Zegona Communications, the UK investment outfit that has struck an agreement to acquire Vodafone España,…
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MultiChoice takes a hit from currency movements
South African pay TV operator MultiChoice expects trading profit and core headline earnings per share…
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KPN adds audiobooks from Storytel to streaming entertainment
KPN is adding audiobooks to its streaming entertainment offering through a partnership with Storytel, the…
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Nuuday highlights new products as revenues, subscriber numbers dip
Danish service provider Nuuday saw service revenues, EBITDA and subscriber numbers fall year-on-year as it…
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Deutsche Telekom sees pay TV base rise
Deutsche Telekom saw its pay TV subscribers base in Germany rise by 4.6% to 4.259…
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D’Olieslager named CEO of Telenet’s Eltrona
Liberty Global-owned Belgian operator Telenet and its Luxembourg subsidiary Eltrona Interdiffusion have named Bart D’Olieslager…
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Liberty Latin America acquires DISH Puerto Rico wireless assets
Liberty Latin America is to acquire US pay TV operator DISH’s mobile spectrum assets in…
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Alteox taps Rakuten TV to take VOD content to Luxembourg’s Post Telecom
Content aggregator Alteox has partnered with streamer Rakuten TV to launch the latter’s catalogue of international films on…
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MELS speakers mull future of super-aggregation
Super-aggregation of multiple streaming services by telecom operators can deliver value to consumers in the…
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Spain’s Telefónica to fully acquire Telefónica Deutschland
Spanish operator Telefónica has announced it is to fully acquire Telefónica Deutschland in a cash…
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Vivendi reacts with fury to TIM network sale to KKR
Vivendi has reacted furiously to Telecom Italia’s (TIM) board’s decision to accept an offer from…
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Swisscom sees TV base decline
Swisscom’s TV base declined by 2.2% in the year to September, taking its total TV…
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NOS pay TV base keeps pace with broadband growth
Portuguese cable and pay TV operator NOS saw its pay TV base grow by 2.2%…
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Mega Max Media strikes new deals for ducktv
Mega Max Media has struck series of new carriage agreements for its toddler channel, ducktv,…
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DISH Network loses subs as Sling TV fails to offset pay TV decline
US pay TV operator DISH Network lost 64,000 net pay TV customers in the second…
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EE and BT TV customers prevented from skipping ITV ads
From today, EE and BT TV customers in the UK can no longer skip ads…
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Virgin Media O2 gives free access to Asian channels for Diwali
The UK’s Virgin Media O2 is giving free access to 15 Asian TV channels over…