Clearwire Confirms New ‘Pay As You Go’ Service Is Coming
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Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) will be unveiling a new “pay as you go” service on Monday in a webcast for media and industry analysts, according to… Read more »
Virgin Launches A Mobile Music Store, But The Big One Is M.I.A.
It’s now 14 months since Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) told the world it would launch a service offering unlimited music downloads, minus copy p… Read more »
Virgin And Sky Involved In Connected-TV Spec Development
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Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) and BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) have been helping shape specs related to the Canvas connected-TV project, though each oppose… Read more »
UK’s Canvas Web-TV JV Earns A Competition Complaint From Virgin Media
Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) has sent a formal complaint to Ofcom, urging it declare the UK’s Project Canvas connected-TV joint venture anti-co… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 07.30.10
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» The Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO) is desperate to unload Newsweek magazine — but not desperate enough sell to Avenue Capital… Read more »
Virgin Media Names VOD Player Line-Up, ITV Aboard
Within a couple of hours of BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) announcing it’s nicked Virgin Media’s UK VOD rights to HBO shows, the cable operator rushed ou… Read more »
Virgin Media Posts Record Growth, TiVo Box Coming Q4
By Mark Sweney: Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) has added a net total of 9,100 new households to its cable subscription base in the three months t… Read more »
Three Of Sprint’s Prepaid Execs Exit; Schulman Hired By American Express
A year after Sprint (NYSE: S) paid $480 million to buy Virgin Mobile USA, the carrier is seeing a trio of executive departures. Dan Schulman… Read more »
Nevermind Ducts, Virgin Media’s Using Electricity Poles To Extend Footprint
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Of all the ideas people have had over the years for plugging the rural broadband divide (WiFi, WiMax, government subsidies), not many people… Read more »
C4 To Handle UKTV’s TV And Online Ad Sales, IDS Closing
By Mark Sweney: Channel 4 has struck a deal with UKTV, owner of channels including Dave and Gold, to handle its TV and online advertising sa… Read more »
Virgin Media CEO: Project Canvas Is Too Closed
By Neil Berkett: The BBC Trust will shortly announce whether, and on what terms, the BBC can join ITV (LSE: ITV), Channel 4, Five, TalkTalk,… Read more »
VMtv Sale: Virgin Gets Sky VOD, Interactive Sports, Online Carriage
Let bygones be bygones…
After several years of animosity, BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is buying the wholly-owned channels from VMtv, Virgin Media’s… Read more »
Is The End Of All-You-Can Eat Data Plans Coming?
photo: Tricia Duryee
AT&T’s change in data plan prices today may mark the beginning of the end for unlimited data plans.
Quite literally, the U.S. might be at… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Eurosport, Virgin Karaoke, Legal P2P
– Virgin karaoke: Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) is augmenting its cable TV VOD service with The Karaoke Channel, a space where viewers can call… Read more »
Sprint Launches A $25 Voice And Data Plan That Even Kids Can Afford
Sprint (NYSE: S) is relaunching its prepaid business today, following the acquisition of Virgin Mobile USA, and now is offering what must on… Read more »
Virgin Media Posts Record Sign-Ups, 100 Mbps Coming This Year
Neil Berkett’s Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) grew its customer base and income in all four of its consumer segments during Q1, making it a recor… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Video Views, Virgin Media Movies, STV Local
– Video views: Monthly UK online views jumped 37 percent from last year to 5.5 billion in February, comScore says, with BBC, ITV (LSE: IT… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Virgin Web VOD, Russian Games, TV Ads
– Virgin web VOD: Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) will finally take its popular cable TV VOD service on to the web and mobile later this year. Co… Read more »
NetPlayTV Takes Over VMtv’s Challenge Jackpot
Interactive telly game maker NetPlayTV is buying Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) Television out of the 9.9 percent share option it granted it last… Read more »
Virgin Revs Up As Broadband Moves To 100Mbps Fast Lane
Fibre-optic broadband is still Virgin Media’s trump card. October-to-December internet sign-ups beat analyst expectations, helping group rev… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Virgin Media; Polish VOD; Italy’s P2P Traffic
– Virgin Media: After Telefonica suggested search engines pay ISPs for carrying their traffic, Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) speaks. “It’s a le… Read more »
Industry Moves: Vodafone; Virgin Media’s IDS; Punktilio
– Vodafone: David Wheldon is leaving his role as global brand director for the mobile operator. He had been with Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) since… Read more »
Is Sprint Eyeing More Acquisitions To Become The Prepaid Leader?
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Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel, which already owns the Boost and Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) brands, maybe mulling whether to buy MetroPCS Communi… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Sky/IPC, Wikileaks Returns, Eurosport/Virgin, Digital Radio
– Sky Songs/IPC: The broadcaster will promote its new music download service through IPC Media’s listings magazines. TV & Satellite Week, T… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Dr Who, VMED VOD, ITV PPV, Tory Broadband, Absolute Radio/Kindle
- Dr Who: The BBC is planning to extend the Dr Who franchise into games. This signals the BBC re-entering the gaming industry after shutting… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Virgin Media, Liberty, Scottish Online Newspaper, GamesIndustry.biz
– Virgin Media: Regulators at the European Commission say they will “closely monitor” Virgin Media’s plans to monitor traffic on its networ… Read more »
Industry Moves: Channel 4, Virgin Media, BBC
– Channel 4: David Abraham will replace Andy Duncan as the next CEO of Channel 4. Abraham is currently the CEO of the multichannel digital… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Bambuser For Journos, Virgin’s MusicFish, French Broadband
– Bambuser deal: The Swedish mobile vidcasting rival to Qik and Flixwagon has signed its first commercial partner since starting in ’07 -… Read more »
Virgin Media Issuing $1 Billion In Bonds To Refinance Fibre Debt
After laying down its costly cable broadband network upgrade, Neil Berkett’s Virgin Media is going to the capital markets for financing for… Read more »
Seesaw Managing Editor; Virgin Appoints COO; Government’s IP Office Chooses CEO
– Seesaw: The forthcoming IPTV VOD service from Arqiva has appointed former Babelgum mobile editor Dan Watt-Smith as its managing editor, a… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Virgin Music, X Factor Song, Venice Game
– Virgin music: Remember when Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) said it would launch an unlimited music service? It only had UMG on board and that’… Read more »
Virgin Media Appoints VOD TV Chief; Skype Marketer; Specific Media SVP
– Virgin VOD: Virgin Media’s has hired Chellomedia exec Aleks Habdank as director of its VOD TV service. He was been at Chello since 2002 a… Read more »
Virgin Media Installing Piracy Monitoring Technology
Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) is to trial software to measure the extent of illegal file-sharing among its customers, as part of its music subsc… Read more »
TiVo Re-Entering UK With Co-Branded Virgin Media Box In 2010
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Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) is tapping TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) to develop the middleware and interface for its forthcoming line of “television and b… Read more »
Sprint Faces Challenges In Wake Of Closing Virgin Mobile USA Acquisition
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Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel has closed the $483 million acquisition of Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM), after shareholders voted in favor of the de… Read more »
Ipercast Targets UK CDN Market By Buying Absolute Radio’s Network
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An interesting little deal about something we didn’t even know existed… Absolute Radio’s content delivery network (CDN), dubbed the Golden… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Football League Ads, ITN Christmas, Swedish Traffic, VMtv Sale
– Football League ads: After this month awarding a mobile content contract, Football League Interactive is now putting the contract for adv… Read more »
BSkyB, Virgin Media Agree ‘No Need For Project Canvas’
BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) and Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) have had their differences in recent years, but they are agreed on one thing: that the Proje… Read more »
Corrected: Virgin Media CEO Neil Berkett Joins Guardian Media Group Board
Guardian Media Group has has appointed Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) CEO Neil Berkett as a non-executive director, to give its board some extra… Read more »
Virgin’s Broadband Bounces Back, VOD More Popular Than Ever
Virgin Media’s broadband sign-ups bounced back up this summer after a dismal spring – but they’re still riding well below last year’s levels… Read more »
