Vodafone TV

Seems that Vodafone are joining the platforms game. A few sketchy comments in their interim results presentation indicating that they intend to develop on their Kabel Deutschland purchase to open Television platforms In all their mature and maturing markets.

Not much information as to how they intend to distribute, although they are developing a TV service in NZ which will be distributed in parallel on Fibre and on 4G mobile.

Whether the market in the UK with it's already complex platform relationships is ready for another major player I have my doubts. If 4G reaches it's target 98pct coverage AND is used to distribute this service it could possibly be a successor to Digital Terrestrial via new receiver technologies.

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HISPANICBUSINESS.COM
13-Nov-2013 @ 22:56

Well, this site's not the most reliable, is it? Cellnet is O2, not T-Mobile. T-Mobile was Mercury One2One.

It's a word for word copy of an article in The Guardian Business ... with the O2 correction in the latest version

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BUSINESS on THEGUARDIAN.COM
14-Nov-2013 @ 11:03

And actually, the UK is no different to most other countries. 15 years ago, most had two networks, one run and owned by the legacy PTT, the other by private enterprise.

What's happened in most places is the PTT owned network has been spun off and sold, and Vodafone have swallowed up most of the world's legacy 'Number 2 private' networks!