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Foxtel and A+E Networks expand partnership
Australia’s Foxtel Group has expanded its partnership with US multinational A+E Networks, inking a multi-year…
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T-Mobile ‘misled’ regulators over Sprint merger, ruling finds
Regulators in the US state of California have ruled that Deutsche Telekom-owned mobile operator T-Mobile…
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Former ITV CEO Adam Crozier in at BT as chairman
BT has announced the hire of former ITV CEO Adam Crozier as its new chairman….
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Elisa launches next-gen Elamus pay TV platform
Estonian pay TV operator Elisa has launched its next-generation Elisa Elamus service. The super-aggregated multiscreen…
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United Group acquires Wind Hellas
South-eastern European service provider United Group has reached an agreement with Crystal Almond Holdings Limited…
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Agile Content to provide Euskaltel TV service as MásMóvil makes changes
Spain-based technology outfit and B2B2C service provider Agile Content has acquired the TV business of…
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Fibre growth lifts Movistar Colombia’s TV base to new heights
Movistar Colombia has surpassed the milestone of 20 million customers – the majority of them…
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Ashes in sights for BT Sport
BT Sport is reportedly on course to win the live broadcast rights for the upcoming…
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Losses continue to mount for Vodafone Idea as telco loses more than 20 million subs
Indian telco Vodafone Idea has recorded its worst quarter for revenue in more than two…
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Liberty Latin America stable growth ahead of Telefónica Costa Rica acquisition
Liberty Latin America, the regional telco that split off from Liberty Global in 2018, has…
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Deutsche Telekom sees TV growth in Germany, looks to housing market
Deutsche Telekom added 69,000 TV customers in Germany in the first half of the year,…
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Digi boosted by growth in Romania and Spain
Romania-based service provider Digi saw its pay TV base in Romania grow by 15% to…
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Omdia: shift of ads to online will force traditional media to collaborate
Traditional media players are coming under increasing pressure from the shift of advertising to online…
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MultiChoice taps GeoGuard to block streaming piracy
South African pay TV operator MultiChoice has tapped geolocation and cybersecurity specialist GeoGuard for its…
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Freenet loses TV subs but gets a boost from rising revenues
A price increase saw German service provider Freenet lose close to 160,000 Freenet TV customers…
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Virgin Media O2 passes new fibre milestone as competitive landscape heats up
Liberty Global and Telefónica-owned Virgin Media O2 has added one-and-a-half million homes to its gigabit…
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Telenet to make adverts unskippable
Liberty Global-backed Belgian service provider Telenet is to prevent subscribers from skipping adverts on recorded…
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Movistar+ secures rights to Bundesliga
Telefónica’s pay TV service Movistar+ has secured rights to German Bundesliga football through to the…
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MEASAT-3 retired after anomaly causes massive outage
MEASAT Global Berhad has announced the retirement of its MEASAT-3 satellite. The satellite operator has…
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Omdia: Italian OTT surge eclipsing declining pay TV
A surge last year in OTT subscriptions in Italy is expected to continue, while a…
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Spanish watchdog demands changes to Telefónica-DAZN F1 deal
Spanish competition and markets regulator the CNMC has demanded that Telefónica change the terms of…
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Swisscom feels the pressure of ‘saturated’ TV market
Swisscom saw its pay TV base decline slightly in the year to June in what…
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Ocilion picks Vubiquity for VOD content
German IPTV provider ocilion has announced a partnership with Amdocs-owned Vubiquity. The five-year agreement will…
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Sky hires Prasanna Gopalakrishnan as CTO following global search
Sky Group has announced the appointment of Prasanna Gopalakrishnan as its chief technology officer. The…
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France’s SFR sets out packages with Amazon Ligue 1 offering
Amazon’s new French top-tier football offering is now available as part of a set of…
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Polsat unveils new online and multiscreen offerings in line with rebrand
Polish pay TV provider Polsat Plus Group has unveiled two new online and multiscreen TV…
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Sky is quickly becoming the gateway to Europe for US streamers
Over the past seven days, two giants of US broadcasting – NBCUniversal and ViacomCBS –…
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RTL to rebrand TV Now as RTL+, plans international rollout in ’22
RTL Group had over three million paying streaming subscribers at the half-year point, a highlight…
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Canal+ to appeal as court orders it to honour Ligue 1 contract
Canal+ has said it will contest a ruling by the Nanterre commercial court ordering it…
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Converge launches new streamer and STB
Filipino telco Converge is launching a new entertainment streaming service. Dubbed VISION, the service is…