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Cable Congress 2013: Cable is the Place to Be
Clearly, the cable industry has become the place to go if you want an easy life. At least, that’s the impression one could get from listening to Liberty Global CEO Mike Fries at this year’s Cable Congress, and from the news that Deutsche Telekom CEO Rene Obermann is set to join Dutch cable player Ziggo… Read more
One million users for SKT’s Joyn.T, but is ‘free’ enough to tempt subscribers away from KakaoTalk?
Almost twelve months after Vodafone Spain became the first mobile operator to officially launch Joyn, South Korea’s SK Telecom has announced a fairly impressive 1 million users for its Joyn.T service, just 50 days after it was launched in December 2012. SKT is the first of the seven operators that have launched Joyn services in… Read more
WhatsApp’s partnership with 3 marks an acceleration in its engagement with mobile operators
WhatsApp’s partnership with 3 Hong Kong for the provision of a WhatsApp-branded mobile data plan and roaming package is potentially another rung up the ladder that Facebook and Twitter have already climbed, but the company will face a number of challenges as it seeks to consolidate its market-leading position in OTT messaging, not least of… Read more
