Pay TV Licensing Stinks; Consumers Should Break the Racket
It turns out that the real reason Pay TV packages make you pay a lot for very little of what you actually want is because of content owners. This great article from the Wall Street Journal explains how...
View ArticleMobile Advertising, Facebook, Inappropriate Content and Personalisation
As we have said in the past, watching mobile advertising is curiously like being drunk. With revenues already over $5.3 billion and growing so fast that analysts are hurrying to update their guesses,...
View ArticleThe Search for Value – A Short History of The Charging Evolution Part 2
Billing for Stuff Conferences sprang up around Value Added Services. The mobile internet became more than a distant dream and terms such as 3G and UMTS arrived in our dictionaries. How to charge for...
View ArticleThe real cost of internet filters
Let us be honest. Communications firms are in the business of making connections, not blocking them. And though some may deny it, many people make all sorts of unexpected connections to many other...
View ArticleThe future of advertising – augmented reality?
Like many things – billing for example – the future of advertising lies in its death. Or at least the death of the traditional model. While the communications industry knows that bombarding customers...
View ArticleU.S. concerned with Indonesia local content law
JAKARTA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is pressing Indonesia to relax local-content rules it believes will handicap efforts of tech firms such as Apple to expand into one of the world’s last...
View ArticlePersonalising content? Think cocktail party
In addition to providing us with the ability to access useful information and enjoyable entertainment, the Internet also manages to quench our thirst for personalised experiences and content. Retail...
View ArticleTwitter looks to Asia to accelerate push for content partnerships
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Twitter Inc said on Tuesday it plans to accelerate its push for content partnerships in Asia Pacific and the Middle East. It has appointed a Singapore-based executive, Rishi...
View ArticleApple looking at producing TV and movie content itself
(Reuters) – Iphone maker Apple Inc is looking to move into the original programming business to compete with video streaming companies such as Netflix Inc, Variety reported on Monday. Apple, which aims...
View ArticleVodafone at the forefront of OTT partnering?
Vodafone UK has just renewed its deal with Netflix as it strives to be the King of OTT Content. Vodafone UK sealed the original deal with Netflix last year offering a range of on demand TV shows to its...
View ArticleGerman publishers and Google at loggerheads
BERLIN (Reuters) – German publishers and Google have failed to resolve a row over whether or not the Web search leader should pay the publishers to display their articles online, raising the prospect...
View ArticleDeciding what selfie to keep becomes a ‘first world problem’
IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 3, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — A recent consumer study commissioned by Western Digital Corp. and conducted by research firm Vanson Bourne found that having to choose which photo or video...
View ArticleThe fight for free data – but who will make money from it?
Netflix plans to tighten its country control, ensuring people can no longer use VPNs to watch another country’s content. Many people feel it is hard to understand why content offerings are restricted...
View ArticleCSPs, lose the bundle, next generation customers do not want it
Communications service providers (CSPs) have a mantra: bundle as much as possible to maximise revenues. In the past this may have worked. Quad play, text, voice and data – add as many services as you...
View ArticleVodafone at the forefront of OTT partnering?
Vodafone UK has just renewed its deal with Netflix as it strives to be the King of OTT Content. Vodafone UK sealed the original deal with Netflix last year offering a range of on demand TV shows to its...
View ArticleGerman publishers and Google at loggerheads
BERLIN (Reuters) – German publishers and Google have failed to resolve a row over whether or not the Web search leader should pay the publishers to display their articles online, raising the prospect...
View ArticleDeciding what selfie to keep becomes a ‘first world problem’
IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 3, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — A recent consumer study commissioned by Western Digital Corp. and conducted by research firm Vanson Bourne found that having to choose which photo or video...
View ArticleThe fight for free data – but who will make money from it?
Netflix plans to tighten its country control, ensuring people can no longer use VPNs to watch another country’s content. Many people feel it is hard to understand why content offerings are restricted...
View ArticleCSPs, lose the bundle, next generation customers do not want it
Communications service providers (CSPs) have a mantra: bundle as much as possible to maximise revenues. In the past this may have worked. Quad play, text, voice and data – add as many services as you...
View ArticleWith the Time Warner deal, can AT&T leverage its content offering?
AT&T obviously didn’t read the recent, depressing, report from Citi that says telcos are going to find it tougher to invest in a climate of increased regulation, competition and thinner margins....
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