Telecom and Media Firms Selling Data Are Facing Backlash

Telecom and Media Firms Selling Data Are Facing Backlash

Data privacy battles are heating up now that a group of US senators have asked regulators to investigate how telecom firms sell people’s location data. Earlier this month, Vice’s Motherboard reported that bounty hunters could pinpoint a person’s cellphone after obtaining location data from data resellers. The report led 15 US senators to call for an investigation into […]

Firstly Mobile brings frictionless content to Telecom companies

Firstly Mobile brings frictionless content to Telecom companies

Mobile Posse, the technology innovator that turns telecom companies into mobile media leaders, announced the release of Firstly Mobile. Firstly Mobile, the company’s latest next-gen content discovery platform, creates a smarter smartphone experience for consumers, a safer brand experience for advertisers and a bigger revenue opportunity for carriers and OEMs. Firstly Mobile consists of the […]

Dutch telco Ben and agency Etcetera launch a branded phone-condom to boost physical intimacy in the bedroom

Dutch telco Ben and agency Etcetera launch a branded phone-condom to boost physical intimacy in the bedroom

 Dutch telecom provider Ben, and Amsterdam-based creative agency Etcetera, have launched the Ben-branded phone-condom – an eye-catching stunt to kick-off their “Better in Bed” campaign – and a radical solution to some of the relationship woes affecting today’s mobile phone dependent society.  The world’s first phone-condom has been introduced as an irreverent – and […]

Increasing number of mobile operators in Israel will drive mobile subscribers to 11.3 million by 2022, says GlobalData

Increasing number of mobile operators in Israel will drive mobile subscribers to 11.3 million by 2022, says GlobalData

Israel has a relatively small population of almost 9 million people and a saturated telecom market with over five mobile operators and a number of mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs). Despite this challenge, 018 Xfone launched a new mobile operator under the brand ‘We4G’ which entered the mobile market in April 2018 and has network […]

ALTBalaji to launch its original content on Reliance Jio’s digital platforms in India

ALTBalaji to launch its original content on Reliance Jio’s digital platforms in India

A week after renewing its partnership with Eros International, Reliance Jio, the Mukesh Ambani-led telecom operator has now joined hands with ALTBalaji, the over-the-top (OTT) content provider, to offer the latter’s content on Jio Cinema and Jio TV – a move aimed at countering Bharti Airtel, which has been making efforts to bolster its content play […]

Telefonica partnership gives consumers more control over personal data

Telefonica partnership gives consumers more control over personal data

Multinational telecoms company Telefonica has formed a partnership with People.io, a UK-based personal data startup, to give German consumers control over elements of their personal data. The deal will see a co-branded version of the People.io app, called O2 Get, launched as part of Telefonica-owned O2’s Germany app portfolio on both the Play Store and […]