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Virgin's First Mobile TV Handset Sighted
News The catalogue has Virgin Mobile's Lobster 700 TV device - designed by HTC and running on Windows Mobile 5.0 - listed in the "coming soon" section. Both Virgin Mobile and BT, whose technology will underpin the device, have been unwilling to name a...
[August 3, 2006, 13:50]
Virgin Readies UK's First Mobile TV Broadcasts
News Virgin Mobile is on track to launch the UK's first true mobile broadcast TV service, a rebadged version of BT’s Movio product, this summer. Insiders have told ZDNet UK that Virgin's deal with BT includes a period of exclusivity of three months.
[July 7, 2006, 12:10]
Virgin's First Mobile TV Handset Sighted
Talkback Why hasn't anyone just put a freeview TV tuner into a phone? Would that not have made the easiest and most sense? It's not like with today's technology it could not be done, stop wasting your times and just create a normal receiver for the phone.
[August 16, 2006, 11:23]
BT Launches Mobile TV Service
News BT has announced the launch of its mobile broadcast TV service, Movio, with partner Virgin Mobile. The service, for which Virgin currently has one handset — the Lobster 700TV — runs over the existing Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) network and...
[September 7, 2006, 11:30]
BT 'to Launch Mobile TV Service'
News Microsoft, BT and Virgin Mobile are thought to be close to launching a mobile TV service in the UK, according to reports on Monday. BT and Virgin Mobile have been working on a mobile TV service for several months.
[February 13, 2006, 16:45]
T-Mobile And Orange To Pilot Mobile TV
News T-Mobile and Orange are to conduct a commercial pilot of mobile TV, less than a year after a similar venture by BT and Virgin Mobile failed. Launched in September 2006 through Virgin Mobile and its "lobster phone", the venture collapsed within a...
[February 12, 2008, 17:26]
Alternatives To DVB-T In The UK
Blog I’m keen to keep to things which can be used legally with MythTV, which would rule out Sky and Virgin Media which essentially bind you to using their hardware. Cable, in most cases through Virgin Media (DVB-C)
[June 20, 2008, 9:23]
NTL Appoints New CEO
News Earlier this month, NTL made an £817m bid for Virgin Mobile, a move that would allow it to offer quadruple-play services - mobile and fixed telephony, broadband and TV. Chief executive Simon Duffy, credited as being responsible for the cable...
[December 16, 2005, 12:20]
Virgin Mobile And NTL: The UK's First Quad-play Offering?
News Virgin Mobile hopes to find out more with its current 1,000-person TV trial in London using DAB. On 5 December 2005, Virgin Mobile confirmed that it is in discussions with NTL about a merger that would create the UK's first quad-play offering.
[December 20, 2005, 15:55]
Ntl:Telewest Planning Four-in-one Package
News The move comes only weeks after the newly merged company bought Virgin Mobile for just under a billion pounds, and less than a week after rival cable firm Sky launched its "triple-play" offer. Steve Burch, ntl:Telewest's chief executive officer...
[July 25, 2006, 12:55]
Report: Lucrative Future For Mobile TV
News Holden acknowledges Virgin's service had its drawbacks but said mobile TV is already popular in other countries. The only real commitment so far has come from Virgin Mobile, which launched a mobile-television service back in 2006.
[September 20, 2007, 10:39]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog And then there's NTL/Telewest, which is buying Virgin Mobile and promptly assuming the V for all services. One of the reasons Branson held out is over concerns that NTL's grotty customer service record would contaminate the überbrand, leading to a...
[April 10, 2006, 11:35]
BT
Talkback Just over a year ago I changed all my communications to Virgin - phone, mobile, TV and broadband. TV and mobile were easy to dump but I was locked in to the phone for 12 months and it was the worst of the lot.
[April 6, 2008, 19:58]
BT Ditches Mobile TV Service
News On Thursday, Virgin Mobile, the only customer for BT Movio, announced it was to stop broadcasting the service at the start of next year. BT is discussing the timescale for the closure of the service with Virgin Mobile.
[July 26, 2007, 15:38]
Ballmer Reveals Mobile TV Smartphone
News It will be used by BT and Virgin Mobile in the UK for the BT Movio service. Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer showed off a Windows Mobile smartphone that's designed to display mobile TV at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona on Tuesday.
[February 14, 2006, 12:00]
DAB-IP Mobile TV Standard Approved
News The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) approved the revision on Tuesday, paving the way for services such as BT Movio, soon to see its first commercial launch by operator Virgin Mobile.
[July 11, 2006, 16:15]
IPL Case Study - Ntl: (Virgin Media)
White Papers ntl:, now part of Virgin Media, was the UK's leading supplier of bundled services to residential customers. However its existing TV surveillance facilities were failing to provide effective monitoring or fault identification facilities.ntl...
[July 18, 2008, 1:01]
UK And Korea Converge On Mobile TV
News Korea has had DMB broadcasts since 2005, with 2 million TV-phones to be sold by the end of this year, while BT is planning to launch a DAB-IP service later this year with Virgin Mobile. The UK and Korea have entered a six-month trial to see if two...
[June 6, 2006, 11:15]
NTL Confirms 6,000 Staff Will Go
News NTL and Telewest merged last year, and this year announced the purchase of Virgin Mobile to add mobile services to their TV, phone and broadband offerings. NTL chief executive Steve Burch said in a conference call that the integration with Virgin...
[May 10, 2006, 11:05]
Mobile Industry Gets The Teamwork Buzz
News And Microsoft's Steve Ballmer and Sir Richard Branson of Virgin took part in a remarkably friendly clinch in Ballmer's keynote. It has teamed up with BT, HTC and The Technology Company to create a smartphone that can handle mobile TV over a DAB...
[February 15, 2006, 11:20]
