Npower has been fined by Ofcom for abandoning telemarketing calls to the public and playing messages containing marketing content during abandoned calls.
30 Nov 2012
| by David Benady
The telecoms brand has paid in the region of £1bn for sports rights, signalling the start of a high-stakes battle with Sky that will have ramifications beyond the arena of pay TV, writes David Benady.
BT added 21,000 customers to its TV service in the quarter, trumping rivals BSkyB and Virgin Media, but revenue was down 9% on the year as the telecoms provider was hit by the European debt crisis.
Virgin Media added a record number of cable customers in the three months to the end of September after running ads starring Olympic gold medallists Mo Farah and Usain Bolt.
EE has announced the pricing of its 4G mobile service, which launches next Tuesday (30 October), starting from £36 per month for a package including 500MB of data.
Virgin Media is extending the free use of Wi-Fi on the Tube until the end of the year after recording more than one million browsing sessions in a single day, the company said.
Vodafone Group has appointed former Mini marketer Barbara Haase as its group brand director, replacing Clare Sheikh who is leaving the company.
Giffgaff, O2's online SIM-only mobile network, is preparing to call a review of its advertising business as it looks to expand its marketing activity, bringing an end to its three year relationship with Albion London.
Plusnet, the BT-owned telecoms provider, is boosting advertising for its superfast fibre broadband offering as it looks to compete with players such as Virgin Media.
The News Corporation lobbyist who played a key role in the Leveson Inquiry has been appointed by Telefónica.