Vodafone

Maltese telcos Melita and Vodafone have agreed a merger in a bid to provide a greater challenge to fellow telco Go.

Media company Liberty Global and mobile phone operator Vodafone have finalised an agreement to combine their operations in the Netherlands through a new joint venture.

Industry experts believe the Portuguese sports-rights market is set to stagnate for the foreseeable future after the country’s three biggest telcos took equal stakes in dominant pay-television broadcaster Sport TV, ending any possibility of competition between them.

Football

The Vodafone and Orange telecommunications companies have extended special offers on sports packages as they bid to win customers in Spain.

Football

Meo, the pay-television platform of Portugal Telecom, has agreed terms to sign up to the partnership formed in the country for the sharing of broadcast rights to sports events.

Football

International media and entertainment company Discovery Communications unveiled a series of deals this (Thursday) morning covering the Olympic Games and European national team football qualifiers, as well as new strategic partnerships in Spain, Italy and Chile.

Football

Telecommunications companies Vodafone and Orange have agreed carriage deals in Spain for the beIN Sports LaLiga channel.

Motorsport

Pay-television channel Motorvision TV has expanded its global reach by launching on six additional platforms in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Football

LaLiga president Javier Tebas this week described the Spanish league’s new domestic media rights deals as “historic” in terms of income and the completion of the move to collective selling.

The Vodafone Portugal division of telecommunications company Vodafone has struck a deal with global programming provider SPI International to carry a number of sports channels on its TV Net Voz IPTV platform.

Football

The reach of beIN Media Group’s pay-television channel beIN Sports has been enhanced in Spain through a new carriage agreement with telecommunications company Vodafone.

Football

Telcos Orange and Vodafone have become the first two operators in the Spanish market to sublicense LaLiga content in the 2015-16 season from rival firm Telefónica, while public-service broadcaster TVE has agreed a deal for highlights rights.

Deutsche Telekom’s surprise deal for exclusive domestic basketball rights in Germany last week is small in value but potentially rich in significance.