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Movistar Plus+ revamp takes on streaming giants
Spanish operator hopes to stem pay‑TV losses with a refreshed content line‑up and an over‑the‑‑top streaming option.
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Content & TV
DT scores Euro 2024 hat-trick, tweaks RTL deal to benefit MagentaTV
Five matches are now to be shown exclusively in Germany via MagentaTV.
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Partnerships & Alliances
Telefónica renews pay-TV satellite deal with SES
Telefónica to use SES’s Astra satellites for TV broadcasting until at least 2030.
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Partnerships & Alliances
DT touts Klopp tactics to bring small clubs to Sporttotal 5G venture
Focus remains on football for now, but other sports will be targeted in future.
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Financial & Performance
Q1 FY23–24: pay-TV the hot topic as Vodafone Germany reengineering progress made
Della Valle on potential €800m pay‑TV losses: “we are talking about 80% to 90% margin”.
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NAGRA helps Telefónica ward off LatAm pirates
Decade-long regional TV partnership gets a content protection-focused update.
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Network & Infrastructure
Vodafone spreads Qwilt to network edge
Scalable open CDN solution said to provide end-users on Vodafone network with responsive, low-latency streaming services.
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Elsewhere in Spain: Telefónica to engage unions
Telefónica to engage unions over “map of activities”.
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Group charts new course through choppy pay-TV waters
Telefónica Group COO Ángel Vilá notes greater flexibility in Spanish pay‑TV services following freedom from CNMC restrictions.
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Telefónica people moves: Group makes a pay-TV board upgrade
Telefónica Audiovisual Digital expands Board of Directors, with Rasauro Varo now working as VP and Director of Movistar Plus+ pay-TV service.
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Vodafone FY22–23: Germany braces for impact as housing association TV contracts come up for grabs
Operator could lose significant chunk of 8.5 million TV customer base within housing associations, which generates around €800m in revenue.
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DT’s Höttges dares to hope for housing association breakthrough
DT CEO “more optimistic” now that cableco ‘rental privilege’ will be abolished from July 2024. Boost expected for TV services, with Euro 2024 TV rights an added attraction.
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DT continues to mull TV strategy
Pedro Bandeira acknowledges competitive threat of smart TV content aggregators.
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Elsewhere in Telefónica Group: Álvarez‑Pallete calls for caution on fast‑developing GenAI
Álvarez‑Pallete calls for caution on fast‑developing GenAI.
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BT takes ITV and Channel 4 to the cloud
BT signs multimillion‑pound contract to enable “start‑to‑finish” cloud processing for regionalised TV content across all of D3&4’s Freeview channels.
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Telefónica and Qwilt team for “hybrid” open CDN drive
New alliance will open up Telefónica’s Movistar Plus+ CDN assets to Qwilt’s content provider partners and expand Telefónica’s distribution network to Qwilt sites.
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Vodafone throws in RCS, TV STB lot with Google
Group to switch to Google’s Jibe Cloud for future RCS messaging support on Android devices.
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Partnerships & Alliances
Vodafone agritech partner Moocall stars in Clarkson’s Farm
Irish company’s Calving Sensor IoT solution, which monitors pregnant cows, features in latest series of documentary.
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Union “deeply concerned” over BT Sport redundancies
More than 200 BT Sport staff put at risk of redundancy following transfer to Warner Bros. Discovery.
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Elsewhere in Spain: Pay‑TV customers given control over personal data
Telefónica gives pay‑TV customers control over personal data