Some numbers out today that underscore the challenge telecoms operators have had in attracting customers to their pay-TV platforms, including the newer services like IPTV, against competition from incumbent TV providers and the growing allure of over-the-top services, from Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) to YouTube.

While some operators in some countries (like the U.S. and Japan) have already celebrated birthdays for their LTE services, 4G in the UK hasn’t even been born yet. But now at least it looks like we might have a due date. UK regulator Ofcom today set out new proposals for…

As expected, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has started to send out invitations to an event in New York, and now we know what it will be about: education.

CES, currently in full swing in Las Vegas, promises to bring out another wave of Android tablets, to add to the 40+ that were on the market before the week even started (if you don’t count e-readers built on the platform; if you do, it’s more like 50). Sound flooded?…

MobiTV, one of the more established mobile TV companies in the market today with deals in place with several major U.S. mobile operators, today revealed a significant deal to grow out its business in Europe: a deal with Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT), one of Europe’s biggest operators, to develop a…

China presents one of the single biggest opportunities for mobile companies looking for more growth, and it’s no surprise that companies like Apple are doubling down on their investments there. But similarly, Chinese mobile players are looking at ways of exporting their products and playing on their brands abroad, and…

With the growth of over-the-top services that let users access the video they want over the internet (and often, for free), those companies offering pay-TV have to look for more bells and whistles to keep fickle consumers interested in their services. The latest offerings in this area come from France…

Several days into the Carrier IQ story—which raised privacy concerns around software that claims to be an innocent diagnostics tool—and some handset makers and at least a few carriers are scrambling to clear their names of any CarrierIQ association, although the discussion is unlikely to end here.

Facebook has not approached anything resembling a confirmation of the reports that it is developing its own phone with HTC, code-named “Buffy”, but it seems that insiders’ chins have begun to wag anyway. The latest detail: how the phone will look.

So much hope has been pinned on Nokia’s comeback strategy—in which it has pivoted in the space of less than a year to develop a new line of smartphones based on Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS—that it was bound to be problematic when the phones finally hit the market: on the…

We have seen this one brewing for some time already, and now it appears to be bubbling over: the Hutchison-owned UK mobile operator Three is preparing an official submission to the EU against a proposed joint venture between the UK’s three largest mobile operators to enable mobile payments and other…

Near-field communications (NFC) is far from being a standard in mobile payments, but the wave-and-pay technology may have gotten its biggest vote of confidence yet from the carrier community today, as some 45 of them endorsed NFC and committed to support and launch services based on it. The crucial questions…

Remember the “Facebook phones” launched by HTC and INQ earlier this year that gave users a hotlink to the social network and integrated the service into other aspects of the device? Well, here come more: Orange today is announcing that it will start to sell three new phones across its…

Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) and Orange have long been rivals in mobile phone markets in Europe, but as growth slows down in the region, the two are, at least in part, taking somewhat different paths in their search for fresh revenues: Vodafone is increasingly looking at its investments in emerging markets,…

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has pushed hard to get its first two Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Windows-based phones out before the holiday season. The industry will be watching closely to see how well the Lumia 800 and 710 sell (respectively at €420 ($589.6/£368.05) and €270 ($379.03/£236.6) without subsidies and taxes)—with all manner…

France Telecom’s Q3 profit dipped by 5.2 percent to €3.99 billion. All regions in which it operates except Spain turned in negative results.

There were such high hopes for the Motorola (NYSE: MMI) Xoom when it was first unveiled at the beginning of this year: meticulously crafted, souped up with new features and… selling for the princely sum of $799. Up against the best-selling iPad, so full of content and almost half the…

Looks like Russia’s search giant Yandex is following in Google’s footsteps once again. Yandex is taking its services to new screens by inking a deal with Samsung to preload access to Yandex on its line of connected TVs as well as its bada-powered feature phones distributed in Russia and other…

Frustrating news for those in the UK who have eagerly been awaiting the first 4G services. The country, home to some of the most mobile-savvy consumers in the world, is now facing a delay well into 2012 before its national operators can even begin to consider how they would deploy…