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Digital One has reached 80% transmission coverage of the UK mainland population by switching on four new transmitters. Digital radio is now available to a potential 44.85m people in the UK, although only a fraction of this number have the equipment to listen to digital radio broadcasts. The licence requirement for Digital One is to… Continue reading Digital Radio Reaches 80% Coverage

In its latest report, Digital Dragons, The Boston Consulting Group reports that despite dot-com gloom lingering in Europe and the US, Asian e-commerce markets are booming. Business to consumer commerce in the Asia-Pacific region is growing at a rate of more than 100% a year mainly due to increased online activity from large, established consumer… Continue reading Boston Consulting Reports That B2C Markets In Asia Are Booming

Around one quarter of homes across France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK will have a broadband connection by 2005, according to the latest projections from the McKinsey Quarterly. This is some 28 million households and could rise to around 70 million, or 60% of homes, by 2010. Broadband connections allow the fast… Continue reading Broadband Take-Up Will Depend On Companies’ Strategies, Says McKinsey

In light of recent reports proclaiming the success of online financial services sites and the growing popularity of online banking, Jupiter MMXI forecast that the days of free content on such sites may be limited. Online banking and share trading sites have previously been free to access but the suggestion is that ‘premium services’ will… Continue reading Success Of Online Finance Sites May Result In Less Free Content

Debt-laden British Telecom (see Forecasts) was facing another blow today as it was usurped by Orange as the UK’s second largest mobile telephone operator. In the three months to June 2001, Orange added 830,000 new subscriber base taking its total to 11.9 million. In March the companies both had around 11 million subscribers but BT… Continue reading Orange Takes The No.2 Spot In The UK Telecoms Market

In its new report Interactive Consumer Broadband: Sex, Sport and Shopping?, Analysys claims that ISPs and telecoms operators are ‘deluding themselves’ if they believe that broadband media entertainment will reap rich rewards. In the battle for viewers, cheap, higher-quality digital tv will prove more attractive to consumers than whatever degree of interactivity may be offered… Continue reading Broadband Poses No Threat To TV, Reports Analysys

Q1 cable statistics from the Independent Television Commission (ITC) show that cable TV penetration has risen by 2.1 percentage points year on year to 28.5% of homes passed and marketed. Cable TV take-up rate has increased by 10.1% in the same period, with 3.6m or 15% of TV households subscribing. The ITC figures also show… Continue reading ITC Publishes Q1 Cable TV Statistics

Last week’s events appeared to be taking their toll on ITV partners Carlton and Granada yesterday with both companies suffering losses. Carlton dropped 4.55% to finish at £3.25, 15˝p worse off than the previous day, while Granada was down 6.86% to close at £1.42˝p, a loss of 10˝p.Taylor Nelson Sofres and Future Network also fell… Continue reading Sharewatch

The National Magazine Company has cancelled two of its most popular exhibitions. The Prima Baby and Cosmopolitan shows will not take place next year while the viability of the events are reviewed.A spokeswoman for the company today said: “Market conditions at the moment mean that the shows have been postponed until further notice. The future… Continue reading Natmags Cancels Exhibitions

The Radio Authority has awarded the Yorkshire regional radio licence to the Guardian Media Group (GMG) which will begin broadcasting its Real Radio format in the region early next year.The licence will give GMG access to a potential audience of 3m listeners, and is one of the last big regional licences to be awarded before… Continue reading GMG Wins Yorkshire Regional Licence