Telecoms

  • Sky highlights on demand growth in latest results

    Sky highlights on demand growth in latest results

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    Almost 3.5m Sky TV boxes are now capable of accessing on-demand content according to the firm’s latest results. The UK’s largest provider of pay TV says 642,000 additional homes connected their Sky boxes to the internet in the three months ended 30 September 2013, taking the total to 3.4m. The company has been highlighting its…

  • Blackberry secures order from 3,500 handsets from KPMG Italy

    Blackberry secures order from 3,500 handsets from KPMG Italy

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    Troubled smartphone firm Blackberry has announced a deal to supply 3,500 handsets to KPMG Italy. The order is much-needed vote of confidence in the firm’s new Blackberry 10 platform and secure data services. In recent years Blackberry has been squeezed by the success of Apple’s iPhone and handsets running Google’s Android operating system. It has…

  • BT strikes Sky Movies deal for Vision and YouView customers

    BT strikes Sky Movies deal for Vision and YouView customers

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    BT has struck a deal to offer the 11 Sky Movies channels to its TV customers. The channels and catch-up content from them will be available in standard definition to BT TV customers with either a YouView box or the latest Vision + box and BT’s Infinity fibre broadband. For customers with regular BT broadband…

  • BT CEO: ‘We want to be an immovable part of UK sports broadcasting’

    BT CEO: ‘We want to be an immovable part of UK sports broadcasting’

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    BT boss Gavin Patterson says the company plans to be an “immovable” part of the UK’s sports broadcasting arena but it is not looking to beat Sky. Speaking at the Leaders in Football 2013 event, Mr Patterson repeated BT’s previous sentiment that the company was happy to co-exist alongside the pay-TV giant. He told attendees…

  • Plusnet now offering BT Sport to broadband customers

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    Broadband provider Plusnet is now offering customers the chance to add BT Sport to their Sky TV boxes for just £5,99 per month, or £7.49 in HD. Although Plusnet is owned by BT, the brand is run as a separate entity and does not always offer the same services as its parent company. BT offers…

  • BT offers customers 12 months free Caller Display

    BT offers customers 12 months free Caller Display

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    Phone and broadband provider BT is offering customers the chance to grab 12 months free Caller Display. The company recently announced its annual price increase, including a rise in the cost of line rental from £15.45 to £15.99 a month. This year’s increase also introduces charges for the popular Caller Display and BT Answer 1571…