Pay TV Inquiry: BT Using Canvas As Stick For Sky Carrot
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BT (NYSE: BT) is now using the cover of Project Canvas in its latest bid to get BSkyB’s channels on its Vision TV service.
The telco has pr… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Gamesload; Virgin Media; Orange Broadband
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– Gamesload: The Deutsche Telekom-owned, German-based games download service is launching in 20 more European countries, including UK, Irel… Read more »
Virgin Mobile France Buying Tele2 France, Adds 385k Customers
Carphone Warehouse-controlled Virgin Mobile (NYSE: VM) France announced on Friday it had entered an agreement to buy Tele2 Mobile France fro… Read more »
Industry Moves: eBay-Google; Virgin Media; MEN Media; UKOM
– eBay-Google: Alex von Schirmeister, the head of eBay’s French business, has been promoted to European marketing director based in Zurich.… Read more »
Absolute’s New Digital Lab Cues Up User-Programmed DAB Station
Absolute Radio, which always had a strong internet track record as Virgin Radio, may have found its online fire again. It’s devised an exper… Read more »
VMtv’s Living TV Launches Web TV Widget
VMtv’s celebrity and lifestyle channel Living TV is expanding its online footprint with a new ad-funded VOD portal hosting short-form clips… Read more »
Virgin Media Cleared For Secondary London Share Listing
Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) will this week start trading shares on the London Stock Exchange, completing a longstanding aim to complement its… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Arqiva’s VOD Platform; Virgin Media Hires Red Bee; X Factor-Sainsbury’s
– Arqiva: The radio mast firm’s reincarnation of the project codenamed Kangaroo will still have the consumer name SeeSaw, as originally int… Read more »
Virgin Media Signs Three-Screen Disney Content Deal
Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) is taking its cue straight from Orange France’s playbook by signing a content deal with Disney (NYSE: DIS) coverin… Read more »
Reports: Interest In U.S. Wireless Consolidation Is High, But Players And Timing Are Unknown
After reports surfaced this weekend that Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) might be interested in merging its struggling U.S. wireless unit with S… Read more »
Documents Reveal Mystery Bidder For Virgin Mobile USA During Eight Month Sale Process
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A document filed with the SEC provides explicit details of the eight-month long sale of Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) to Sprint (NYSE: S) Nex… Read more »
Industry Moves: Disney's Euro Interactive Chief Heading To Virgin Media
Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) has poached Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) Internet Group Read more »
Virgin Mobile USA Sues Ultramercial Over Failing To Hand Over Mobile Advertising Revenues
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Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) has sued Ultramercial over its Sugar Mama service, which allowed users to earn free voice minutes by watching c… Read more »
Earnings: Virgin Mobile USA Puts Higher-Value Customers Before Sign-Ups
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Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) Q2 profit jumped 296 percent from last year to $21.8 million, as premium handset sales grew strongly. Sales of… Read more »
Consumers Not Carriers Benefiting From Prepaid Price Wars
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As the price of prepaid continues to come down, operators are starting to feel the burden, but not consumers who appear to be jumping from o… Read more »
Virgin Broadband Additions Down 4.6 Percent, Plans ‘Three-Screen’ Mobile TV
Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) added just 5,100 new broadband customers between April and June on a net basis – down from 54,600 in the same peri… Read more »
SK Telecom Backs Out Of U.S. By Selling Virgin Mobile Stake To Sprint
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SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) had such big aspirations for the U.S., and now it looks like all its efforts are for nothing.
SK Telecom’s entrance… Read more »
Earnings: Sprint Lost Quarter Of Million Subscribers In Q2 Despite Launching The Palm Pre
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Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel did not say how well the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre sold during the second quarter, however, it sure didn’t help stem the… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Sky Player Ads; ESPN On Virgin; BBC Natural History Vids
– Sky Player ads BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is adding online-only advertising to its live streaming TV site Sky Player. Until now the service has re… Read more »
Sprint Buying Virgin Mobile USA For $483 Million To Boost Prepaid Offer
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Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel has agreed to buy Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) for $5.50 per share or $483 million, combining it with its own Boost… Read more »
Virgin Mobile USA to File Lawsuit Against Operator of Its Sugar Mama Program
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Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM), which recently closed down its Sugar Mama program that subsidized minutes for users if they watched some ads o… Read more »
Pre-Paid Price Wars Call For Consolidation; Who’s Next?
The recent introduction of a $45 unlimited calling and texting plan by Tracfone Wireless has kicked off another round of price wars in the w… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Ashes VOD, Virgin Picturebox, PVR Stats
– Five Cricket VOD: Five’s highlights from this summer’s Ashes Test series will be shown online via its Demand Five VOD platform — and the… Read more »
Sky Resists Ofcom’s Demands To License Its Content
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BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) should lower its subscription prices and offer its premium sports and movie content to rivals on a wholesale basis to ensu… Read more »
GetJar To Provide Virgin Mobile France’s Upcoming App Store With Free Applications
GetJar, the independent mobile app store, has struck a deal with *Virgin Mobile* France, to provide the French carrier Read more »
