Cannes – Comcast International Media Group (CIMG) has inked various carriage deals in Africa and Europe for E! International Network, bringing the 24-hour Hollywood celebrity and entertainment channel to 75million homes outside of the US. CIMG closed new carriage agreements with African satellite TV platform Multichoice in Angola and Mozambique; Croatian telco and IPTV operator T-Com; Portuguese telco PT Telekom; and Serbian cable operator SBB; as well as renewed its contract with UK … [Read more...] about CIMG inks African and European carriage deals for E! Int’l Network
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Sky PerfecTV! partners DoCoMo for mobile channel Sukapa! Keitai TV
Tokyo - Cable and satellite platform Sky PerfecTV! has teamed with telco NTT DoCoMo to launch new mobile channel Sukapa! Keitai TV on April 21, 2007. Translating as Sky PerfecTV! Mobile TV, Sukapa! Keitai TV mobile channel offers content from various Sky PerfecTV! satellite channels to mobile users. An application downloaded from the DoCoMo i-mode website has to be installed on mobile devices to receive the channel. The service will be accessible to users of DoCoMo 900 to 905i or 700 to 705i … [Read more...] about Sky PerfecTV! partners DoCoMo for mobile channel Sukapa! Keitai TV
Indonesia’s XL to expand 3G mobile subscriber services
Singapore – PT Excelcomindo Pratama (XL), the third largest mobile telco in Indonesia with more than 14 million users, has added a new data centre and an intelligent network built by Datacraft. Worth US$2.2million, the new infrastructure will enable XL to expand subscriber services to include 3G-based video calls, music and movie downloads, games, news-on-demand and location-based services. A key component of the restructured network is the IP Transfer Point (ITP) that serves as a … [Read more...] about Indonesia’s XL to expand 3G mobile subscriber services
Telco spending slow in Japan, surging in rest of region – Ovum RHK
Telecom equipment spending in the region for the first three quarters of 2007 was, at US$47.1billion, up 6% on the same period in 2006. Outside of Japan, though, capex rose at a much stronger 19.5% clip to $31.8billion. "NTT's long anticipated next-generation network build-out is largely still on hold, so vendors heavily reliant on this market are struggling," notes Matt Walker, Ovum RHK's Senior Analyst for Network Infrastructure. But Asia Pacific's big emerging markets are another story as … [Read more...] about Telco spending slow in Japan, surging in rest of region – Ovum RHK
SK Telecom nabs 38% stake in Hanaro Telecom
Seoul – Korean mobile operator SK Telecom has acquired a 38.89% stake in Korean telco Hanaro Telecom, which operates the successful Hana TV IPTV service. SK Telecom acquired the stake for a reported KRW 1,087bn (US$1.18 billion); the deal is subject to government approval. Under the agreement, SK Telecom will replace a consortium led by AIG and Newbridge as the largest shareholder in Hanaro Telecom. Analysts expect the deal to give the mobile operator greater scale and opportunity for the … [Read more...] about SK Telecom nabs 38% stake in Hanaro Telecom
SK Telecom poised to control Hanarotelecom
Seoul – SK Telecom looks set to control Korea’s Hanarotelecom after being named as the sole preferred bidder of AIG/Newbridge consortium’s 39.36% stake in Hanaro. The deal needs regulatory and other approvals, which may take until March 2008. SKT already owns a 5% stake in Hanaro, Korea’s second biggest fixed-line player. SKT, Korea's top mobile operator with 22 million customers, joined the race after Australia’s Macquarie Bank launched a bid. Hana TV, the … [Read more...] about SK Telecom poised to control Hanarotelecom
