Plans are underway to enable digital terrestrial TV broadcasts to be delivered to mobile phones, the DVB World 2003 conference heard in Dublin recently. DVB-X will apparently enable the transmission of music, video clips and other multimedia content to a large audience via mobile handsets. It is already being seen as a cheaper and more… Continue reading DTT Coming To Mobile Phones Soon

The rate of worldwide DSL broadband subscriber growth increased during the second half of last year and continues to be a ‘telecoms success story’, according to a new report from Point Topic. The report says that growth was stronger than the first half in both absolute and percentage terms, with operators across the globe signing… Continue reading DSL Growth Is ‘Telecoms Success Story’, Says Point Topic

The market for interactive sports coverage is set to undergo massive expansion in coming years and new revenue streams will generate almost $3 billion worldwide by 2008, according to a new report issued by Screen Digest. Sport was, until recently, regarded as an unstoppable bandwagon and media companies showed a particular inclination to hop on… Continue reading Sport Sees Salvation In Interactive TV

The race for the assets of stricken media group Kirch appears to have come to a head following news that Bauer Verlag is to withdraw from the bidding process. The publisher’s decision leaves US media magnate, Haim Saban, as the only remaining bidder for KirchMedia, which has a majority stake in ProSiebenSAT1, Germany’s largest free… Continue reading German Publisher Abandons Bid For Kirch

Cable operator NTL has announced that James Mooney is to become non-executive chairman. The appointment ends a long search to fill the position which became available last autumn when George Blumenthal, was forced out by bondholders. Mooney was most recently chief operating officer at US mobile operator, Nextel Communications. He will work alongside NTL chief… Continue reading Mooney Answers The Call At NTL

Minister of State for E-Commerce and Competitiveness, Stephen Timms, has hinted that the Government is unwilling to reconsider its plans to allow foreign ownership of UK media assets, despite the threat of significant opposition in the House of Lords. Earlier this week, head of the Joint Scrutiny Committee on the Communications Bill, Lord Puttnam, warned… Continue reading Government Unwilling To Budge On Foreign Ownership

Irish mobile and internet penetration increased during the fourth quarter of 2002, according to the country’s Commission for Communications Regulation (Comreg). Some 79% of the the Irish population now have a mobile phone, a 2% increase on Q3 (see Irish Telecoms Industry In Good Heart) and subscribers send an average of 72 text messages every… Continue reading Mobile And Internet Growth Recorded In Ireland

Over 100 million young people aged between 5 and 24 will own a mobile phone by the end of 2003, according to a new study from the Wireless World Forum (W2F). mobileYouth 2003 examined ownership in twenty prominent markets and it is estimated that 104 million or 44% of 5-24 year olds will have a… Continue reading Young To Drive Mobile Revenues, Says W2F

The BBC’s decision to pull out of the conditional access satellite carriage agreement that it has held with BSkyB for the last five years (see BBC Ends £85m Conditional Access Contract With BSkyB) is unlikely to have any material effect on Sky, according to media analysts. The BBC said that it will save £85 million… Continue reading INSIGHTanalysis: BBC’s Exit From Carriage Deal Will Not Hurt Sky

Revenues from US video on-demand (VOD) services will grow from $293 million in 2003 to $1.4 billion in 2007, according to a new report from Jupiter Research. The Impact Of On-Demand Content On Cable Revenues In The US report shows that in addition subscription VOD – dubbed SVOD – will reach $800 million in 2007,… Continue reading Subscriptions Key To Video On-Demand, Says Jupiter