EE uncovers shocking UK mobile snacking habits
New research from UK operator EE has revealed some startling home truths about exactly what snacks the UK favours while watching things on the phone.
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EE wins the grand slam in latest Opensignal UK report
The latest Opensignal report shows EE has come on top in all five categories, though the winning margin in video experience was narrow.
Even Snapchat is getting into the original content game
With social networking services seeking to improve the quality of content they host by making their own, even ephemeral messaging service Snapchat has felt compelled to act.
Throttling video streaming is not criminal but Xfinity has botched the move
Comcasts’s Xfinity Mobile is going to limit video streamed over cellular to 480p resolution and cap hotspot speeds at 600 kbps unless customers pay more.
YouTube strikes back in increasingly important mobile video battle
No sooner does Instagram make its mobile video move than YouTube and Snapchat counter-attack in an area of growing commercial significance to telcos too.
Facebook takes fight to YouTube on mobile with IGTV
Facebook subsidiary Instagram has launched a new app dedicated to long-form video on mobile devices that seems designed to compete with dominant incumbent YouTube.
Snapchat takes digital narcissism to a new level
Snapchat has announced the rebrand of the company to Snap as well as a new product launch Spectacles that promise to facilitate social media exhibitionism like never before.
EE shows off 3x carrier aggregation with 360° YouTube live stream
UK operator EE used the opportunity presented by its sponsorship of the Latitude music festival to demonstrate of the potential of 3x carrier aggregation 4G.
Mobile video consumption rapidly increasing, claims Ericsson report
Some 35% of all TV and video viewing is now watched on-demand with over half of consumers claiming to watch streamed on-demand content at least once a day, reports DTVE.
Google, Netflix, Cisco form alliance to optimise web, mobile video streaming
A number of high-profile technology and internet-based firms have formed a new standards body to develop an open and royalty-free codec for internet video streaming.
Mobile video volume on LTE already 5x greater than 3G
A report commissioned by analytics vendor Citrix has revealed the extent of LTE-based video streaming growth. The report focuses on the consumption of LTE-based services among global tier 1 operators; and concludes LTE is already generating five times greater data volume than 3G at operators that offer both.
Alcatel Lucent opens a Bell Lab in Cambridge
Networking innovator Alcatel Lucent has announced the opening of a new ‘antenna’ (i.e. small) office of its Bell Labs R&D arm in Cambridge. The role of antenna offices is to focus on one major industry issue, in this case realtime cloud video delivery.
Global mobile traffic to grow 11 fold by 2018, says Cisco
Global mobile traffic is expected to grow nearly 11-fold over the next four years, according to research conducted by networking kit vendor Cisco.
Ericsson and Telstra in LTE Broadcast trial
Australia’s leading telecoms operator Telstra has signed an extension of its partnership with Swedish vendor Ericsson that will see the two collaborate on the expansion of Telstra’s LTE network. In a briefing at Mobile World Congress on Monday the firms’ CEOs, David Thodey and Hans Vestberg signed a three-year expansion contract that Thodey described as “another multi-billion dollar deal”.
Mobile data peak demand is an all-day phenomenon
There’s no rest for a busy network. With video now accounting for the lion’s share of mobile data traffic on wireless networks, peak demand has become an almost all-day phenomenon, running from noon to midnight daily.
Google picks up video firm to boost mobile play
Web giant Google snapped up video compression firm On2 Technologies for a total of $106.5m in a stock for stock transaction earlier this week.
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