Video & OTT Technology News

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  Content & TV

  Movistar Chile overhauls IPTV service, integrates Netflix and Amazon

  Operating business gives pay-TV service a major refresh with platform of platforms feel.

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  Content & TV

  COSMOTE TV eyes 4K expansion with Synamedia

  Synamedia boasts another telco contract, this time with the Greek incumbent. Cosmote looks to pursue 4K streaming and growing OTT proposition with deployment of scalable, edge solution.

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  Products & Services

  Richter to scale Vodafone’s digital services opportunity

  Vodafone Technology Director sees creative collaboration and an emphasis on core connectivity as crucial to building a role in digital services ecosystem, with IoT a key example of the opportunity. BT Enterprise CTIO highlights the way digital services demand is both accelerating and evolving in response to pandemic.

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  Financial & Performance

  Telefónica Transformation: ahead of schedule but hitting a bump

  Digital services revenue hits 17% revenue increase year-on-year, with the bulk coming from video services. Telefónica Infra remains barebones, but the future looks promising.

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  Content & TV

  Vodafone feels frozen out by Movistar’s Disney+ win

  Rival claims foul play in behind-scenes negotiations with Disney.

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  Consumer (B2C)

  Movistar Chile plans consumer broadband upgrade

  Movistar Chile unveiled plans for a free upgrade to internet speeds for an estimated 80% of its broadband customers.

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  Enterprise (B2B)

  Telefónica International Wholesale Services teams with Hammer Fiber Optics

  TIWS formed a bilateral SMS messaging interconnection agreement with Hammer Fiber Optics Holdings, a fledgling wireless service provider based in New Jersey, USA.

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  Partnerships & Alliances

  Atresmedia, Telefónica España video content JV still in the works

  Atresmedia Corporación assured that its pending video content joint venture (JV) with Telefónica España remained set for creation.

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  Content & TV

  Updated BT TV aims for platform flexibility

  Integration of Sky’s Now TV into BT’s YouView‑based platform enabling Consumer to offer a more rounded pay‑TV product with simplified access to a range of OTT services. New packages built on apparently contradictory goals of leveraging demand for flexible on‑demand services while also tying customers into two‑year contracts. Sky ...

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  Consumer (B2C)

  EE offers complimentary BritBox

  EE is to offer new and existing pay‑monthly mobile and tablet customers a free six‑month subscription to BritBox.

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  Content & TV

  BT adopts encoder to fight broadcast piracy

  BT becomes first UK broadcast provider to use encoder. Video compression solutions specialist Ateme gets partnership.

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  Products & Services

  O2 Extras aims to bolster loyalty scheme

  O2 Extras proffers bundled subscriptions to streaming services, including Amazon’s Prime Video and Audible. Component of efforts to improve customer retention, amid growing competition from rival loyalty programmes.

• Content & TV

  Movistar Play now available on smart TVs

  Telefónica’s Movistar Play over‑the-top pay‑TV service has been integrated into Samsung smart TVs in Latin America.

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  Content & TV

  Hungary latest to receive Vodafone TV service

  Vodafone Hungary set to become the latest in a string of European OpCos to launch OTT TV service.

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  Partnerships & Alliances

  Telefónica España and Atresmedia create TV content JV

  Telefónica España and Atresmedia, a Spanish media group, agreed a deal to create a 50:50 joint venture (JV) to produce and distribute Spanish-language original series and films for Telefónica’s Movistar+ pay‑TV platform and Atresmedia channels. 

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  Suppliers & SCM

  Zenterio buyout raises questions for Deutsche Telekom

  Once-close partner appears to have been damaged by DT supply refresh.

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  Partnerships & Alliances

  T‑Mobile US agrees go-to-market tie‑up with Quibi

  T‑Mobile US (TMUS) agreed a go-to-market tie‑up with Quibi, a high-profile mobile video startup that is due to release services in April 2020.

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  Products & Services

  T‑Mobile Poland adds Amazon Prime Video to broadband and multi‑play packages

  T‑Mobile Poland (TMPL) added Amazon Prime Video to its recently-launched wireline broadband and multi‑play packages. 

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  Content & TV

  PHABRIX flags role in HDR trials with BT Sport

  Broadcast test and measurement solutions provider PHABRIX flagged its role in nine months of high dynamic range (HDR) technology trials conducted by BT Sport.

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  Content & TV

  Timeline Television selects Tedial’s MAM platform for BT Sport’s facilities

  Production facilities specialist, and existing BT Sport broadcast partner, Timeline Television selected media asset management (MAM) provider Tedial’s Evolution MAM platform to handle and orchestrate media processing and workflow archiving at BT Sport’s facilities in Stratford and the BT Tower in London.

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  Products & Services

  Vodacom looks for regional growth via digital media

  South African operator retains exclusive expansion mandate within Vodafone.

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