Mobile operators are in a good position to boost their revenues by offering users compelling mobile phone content, according to a new report by Ovum. The consulting company predicts that by the end of 2005, operators will make more money from content than all other players put together.Also On MediaTel Insight Today…TV Merger Likely To… Continue reading MediaTelINSIGHT:Wireless Operators To Reap Content Revenue Benefits
Only around 13% of European mobile users are interested in using their phones to make payments for services, according to a report by Forrester Research. A survey of mobile users across twenty European countries found that only 13% of users claim to be likely or very like to use mobile payment services if they were… Continue reading Few Mobile Users Interested In Mobile Payments
More than 1.68 billion person to person text messages were sent across the four UK GSM networks in July 2003, up from 1.3 billion in the same period the previous year, according to the latest figures from the Mobile Data Association (MDA). JulyÂ’s figure takes the total number of text messages sent so far during… Continue reading Reality Boost For Text Messaging In July
Mobile operators are in a good position to boost their revenues by offering users compelling mobile phone content, according to a new report by consulting company Ovum. The efforts of operators worldwide to create attractive content services for consumers will pay off, says Ovum. If they keep momentum mobile companies should prove more successful at… Continue reading Wireless Operators To Reap Content Revenue Benefits
The US hi-tech business publishing sector saw advertising volumes decline by 16.5% during July, according to the latest figures from United Business Media‘s CMP Media division. Within this, CMP’s volumes fell by 14.8%. In the twelve months to July, the whole technology publishing market saw ad page volumes drop by 18.0% year on year. CMP… Continue reading US Hi-Tech Publishing Ad Volumes Fall 17% In July
The cost of digital TV set-top box equipment could fall as low as â‚Ź36 (£27) by 2007, as fierce competition in the supplier market continues to drive down prices, according to a new report from Strategy Analytics. Demand for digital terrestrial TV (DTT) services is starting to look much stronger in Europe, with the UK’s… Continue reading DTV Equipment Costs To Fall Below £30 By 2007, Says Report
Chrysalis Radio has secured Telewest Broadband as the six-figure sponsor of Heart 100.7 in the West Midlands.The 12-month deal, planned and negotiated by Media Insight, will run during Nick Piercy’s Evening Drivetime show and will promote Telewest Broadband’s blueyonder 2Mb internet service, which claims to be four times faster than other leading broadband suppliers.On air… Continue reading Chrysalis Brings Telewest To Heart Of West Midlands
Carlton was seen in focus yesterday, down 4.28% as continued concerns over its proposed merger with Granada weighed heavily on the stock.Senior executives at this year’s Media Guardian Edinburgh Television Festival have suggested that the proposed merger will go ahead even if the Government forces them to sell off their airtime sales houses (see ITV… Continue reading Sharewatch: Carlton Falls On Bearish Sentiment
The role of the BBC in the increasingly crowded media marketplace has been the source of much debate and the issue topped the bill once again at this year’s Media Guardian International Edinburgh Television Festival. Tony Ball, chief-executive of BSkyB, delivered an extraordinary James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture, in which he argued that the Corporation’s executive… Continue reading NewsLine Column: James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture
Granada has attacked suggestions by former Channel Five chief executive, David Elstein, that its proposed merger with Carlton could produce more than £100 million of cost savings for the combined ITV company.Elstein, who is reportedly planning to parachute in an alternative management team to run the merged broadcaster, claims that the cost savings generated by… Continue reading Granada Dismisses Elstein’s Merger Savings Calculations
