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BSkyB brings HDTV into focus, BBC/ITV Freesat off to promising start
Expect BSkyB to put on some serious numbers for its high-definition television service over the next few quarters after halving the price of its HD box to £75 and embarking on a major marketing campaign for the product.
Into the music stream
Earlier this week, Entertainment Media Research (ERA) announced the findings of its 2008 Digital Music Survey. Like most involved in the business of music, it was pleasing to see that illegal downloading was down.
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Nokia and Sony Ericsson feel pinch from downturn - operators will also suffer, but how much?
Nokia and Sony Ericsson have both reported a fall in earnings for 3Q08 as device vendors begin to feel the effects of the global financial crisis. While the impact of vendors has been largely expected, it remains a question how much operators will suffer from the economic downturn.
Nokia music? Comes without mobile
Plenty of plaudits for Nokia’s Comes With Music mobile music service which launches in the UK today. The biggest problem is that it’s barely mobile at all. To avoid users racking up hefty data charges on wireless networks, Nokia gets them downloading tracks to the PC for sideloading to the handset.
Nokia finds it easier to sell handsets than services – for now
Telefonica Moviles has become the first carrier to announce that it will be offering Nokia’s 5800 XpressMusic phone, but it looks as if it will be doing so without the handset maker’s Comes With Music service.
The move will be a blow to Nokia because the Finnish vendor is trying to develop its service offerings in a bid to add incremental revenues to those already generated from selling handsets.
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Telus and Bell hammer nail into the coffin of UMB
Telus and Bell Canada’s long-awaited decision to opt for LTE for its next generation technology almost certainly signals the end of Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB), the next generation of CDMA technology.
Bell and Telus, Canada’s second and third largest operators respectively, join a long list of CDMA operators that have opted for LTE over UMB, and their decision will probably force the hand of CDMA operators who have yet to commit to LTE to do just that.
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Perhaps mobile operators should think “TV” and not just “Mobile TV”
Mobile operator Orange plans to launch a new service that includes a package of five cinema channels in France from November. The content on the channels will be available for viewing as live broadcasts as well as on-demand. Orange will license content from Warner Bros, Metro Goldwyn Mayer, HBO, Gaumont, BAC Films, Wild Side Films and Fidelite Film for this service.
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