Analyst Blog

• It’s War: KT cuts off Samsung’s OTT connected TV content
  By Tony Brown February 10, 2012
  

  Somewhat ironically I had only just returned home from the Content Delivery Networks Asia 2012 conference in Hong Kong – where telco CDN’s were touted as the solution to the great telco versus OTT battle – when I read that Korean market giant KT had decided to cut off access for OTT content for Samsung’s… Read more

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• Google TV is not the only response available to TV manufacturers to combat Apple TV
  By Andrew Ladbrook February 9, 2012
  

  If the rumors are true, at some point this year Apple will launch its own TV set. You would think such a move would motivate the incumbent players into taking action. Yet at CES this year, a colleague and I were struck by the poor quality of user interfaces (UI) on the majority of smart… Read more

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• T-Mobile’s Full Monty tariffs: do they go too far?
  By Francesco Radicati February 9, 2012
  

  At the beginning of the month T-Mobile UK introduced a series of tariffs called “The Full Monty”, which allow unlimited calling, texting and data from GBP36 per month. The operator has been promoting this pretty heavily, with a TV ad and quite a bit of press coverage. A key selling point they’re keen to get… Read more

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• Why the case against ReDigi should go to a full trial for the good of the music industry
  By Simon Dyson February 9, 2012
  

  Earlier this month, US District Judge Richard Sullivan ruled against EMI’s Capitol Records’ request for a preliminary injunction against the digital-music reseller ReDigi. Capitol had wanted the service closed down but Judge Sullivan denied the record company’s demand and insisted that the service should stay online and the case go to trial. The judge’s action… Read more

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• Some key take-aways from Midem, from a mobile perspective
  By Guillermo Escofet February 8, 2012
  

  Although mobile was not a headline topic last week at Midem, the music industry’s big meet-up held every year in Cannes, it permeates a lot of the things that were the focus of discussion at the show. Under an unusually cold, grey and wet sky, there was much agonizing about whether music-streaming services are good… Read more

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• Ted Hall comments on the announcement that Virgin Media recorded its first-ever profit in 2011
  By Ted Hall February 8, 2012
  

  The strong performance turned in by Virgin Media in 2011, with the company generating its first ever profit, caps a major turnaround for cable TV in the UK, which has gone a long way to shedding the poor public image that plagued the technology in the NTL-Telewest days. Virgin’s strategy of playing to its strengths… Read more

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