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BT Sport Continues to Drive Innovation

Tim Mulligan

23 Nov 2018

5G

BT Sports

EE

BT Sport will broadcast this weekend’s EE Wembley Cup live on YouTube using remote production over EE’s 5G network; a world first according to BT Sport. The sporting event is an exhibition football...

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5G Represents a Marriage Made in Heaven For the Cable Industry

Tim Mulligan

14 Nov 2018

4g

5G

cable

Last week MIDiA Research was invited to participate on a panel at the Cable Next Gen Europe event in London, to discuss convergence and the impact of 5G for cable providers. The gathering largely focused...

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Quick Take: Are Telcos Shooting Themselves In A Foot With Google’s RCS?

Karol Severin

28 Nov 2016

google

Mobile content

Mobile messaging

Google has partnered up with 58 telcos via GSMA to deploy a standardized revamp to SMS in form of Rich Communication System (RCS). The upgraded system will give telcos a shot at competing with mobile messaging...

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Yonder And The Next 100 Million

Mark Mulligan

25 Nov 2015

Beyond Oblivion

celcom

Mobile content

Yonder’s partnershipwith Celcom Axciata in Malayisa is a deal that you might have missed . But you should pay attention because it points to the huge emerging market opportunity for music that is largely...

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How Telcos Could Become Gatekeepers Of Mobile Advertising

Karol Severin

12 Oct 2015

ad blockers

Ad Blocking

mobile

Digicel in Jamaica is the first mobile network operator to roll out ad blocking of web and in-and app advertisement across it’s entire network as a default purchase option. If this scales across global...

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