BT Sport website and app go down as Manchester United, Fulham and Sheffield United play FA Cup games February 3, 2015 BT has suffered an outage of its website and app leaving BT Sport customers unable to watch three fourth-round FA Cup replay matches. Football fans planning to watch the live games on computers through BT Sport’s online player or via mobile on the BT Sport app have been unable to watch the action, including League [...]
BT Sport website and app goes down as Manchester United, Fulham and Sheffield United play FA Cup games February 3, 2015 The website and app for BT Sport has gone down leaving football fans unable to watch three fourth-round FA Cup replay matches. Those planning to watch the live games, including League Two club Cambridge United facing top flight club Manchester United, on computers through BT Sport’s online player or via mobile on the BT Sport [...]
Best of the Brokers for 02 February 2015 February 1, 2015 To appear in Best of the Brokers, email your research to notes@cityam.com BT GROUP S&P Capital IQ reiterated its “sell” rating on the telecommunications group after the firm’s update for the third quarter of 2014-15 showed that an increased pension deficit has weighed on cash flow. The broker also noted that costs for showing Premier [...]
Dixons Carphone to launch mobile service for Internet of Things plans through Hutchison Whampoa’s Three February 1, 2015 Dixons Carphone is the latest to jump into the mobile ring with plans to launch its own mobile service to customers. The retailer has made an agreement with Hutchison Whampoa, the owner of mobile network Three, to provide a mobile service to its customers who are increasingly buying connected devices. Dixons Carphone previously outlined its [...]
BT’s pension deficit hits £7bn while profits rise from TV, broadband and sport customers January 30, 2015 The figures In its third quarter results, BT revealed revenue slipped two per cent to £13.2bn in the nine months to 31 December, while adjusted pre-tax profit leaped 11 per cent to £2.1bn. BT's consumer division, including TV, broadband and those all-important BT Sport customers, increased pre-tax profit by 43 per cent to £251m. Its business division also grew [...]
Game of phones: £22.5bn worth of deals transforming UK mobile, broadband and TV markets January 29, 2015 Britain raced further towards a future where you might buy your mobile, landline, TV and broadband all from the same supplier yesterday after Sky revealed it will add mobile to its offering next year. The European pay-TV giant said a partnership with O2 will allow it to launch a so-called quad play offering next year, [...]
Sport Comment: Players turned pundits can earn a packet after football January 29, 2015 FOOTBALL pundits: don’t you just love them? Well, maybe you do, perhaps you don’t. They are there to curry debate, adding their professional perspective to TV and radio coverage of our great game. Only yesterday, we woke up to reports that former Spurs and England schemer Danny Murphy was facing a £2.5m tax bill. Now [...]
Sky agrees deal with O2 owner Telefonica to launch mobile service January 29, 2015 Sky has agreed a deal with Telefonica to launch a mobile network in the UK. The broadcaster will launch a mobile service for customers in 2016 using Telefonica’s 2G, 3G and 4G networks. The move follows hot on the heels of rivals moving into the mobile business in order to offer customers so-called "quad play" [...]
Virgin Media calls on Ofcom to delay £4bn Premier League TV auction January 28, 2015 Virgin Media last night made an 11th-hour bid to block the Premier League’s multi-billion pound auction by calling on media regulator Ofcom to use its emergency power to halt the bidding which is currently expected to conclude next Friday. Virgin, which met with Ofcom two weeks ago to discuss a separate ongoing competition investigation into [...]
Premier League bids heat up as TV broadcast deadline nears January 26, 2015 WITH a fortnight remaining until bids are due in the multi-billion pound auction for the TV broadcast rights of three seasons of the most-watched football league in the world, BT, Sky and Discovery are preparing for battle. Before Christmas the Premier League said it had opened up bidding for seven packages of live broadcasting rights [...]