Poor mobile phone coverage is set to be a thing of the past as the UK Government champions a £1 billion (€1.16bn) deal with the mobile phone industry to banish rural ‘not-spots’, with the plans for all operators to share phone masts to improve UK coverage being described as a “world first”. The move will […]
The BBC may not be sustainable in its current form, if it fails to regain younger audiences who are increasingly tuning out of its services, according to UK broadcast regulator Ofcom, which has published its annual report on the Corporation, assessing its performance over the period April 2018 to March 2019. Ofcom finds that the […]
A study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Chapman University, has found that in anti-piracy work, blocking websites is more effective when multiple sites are targeted. The study, The Effect of Piracy Website Blocking on Consumer Behavior, reported in an article in MIS Quarterly, examined the effectiveness of anti-piracy efforts in the United Kingdom […]
China’s state broadcaster, CCTV, did not show any NBA games on the opening day of the new season. CCTV traditionally shows the first game of the NBA season, which started on October 22nd (US time) when the reigning champion Toronto Raptors took on the New Orleans Pelicans – but the game was completely dropped. The […]
Eutelsat, in a formal filing to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), says that it is in favour of the C-Band Alliance – eventually – freeing up 300 MHz of spectrum over the US for 5G’s usage. Julie Burguburu, Eutelsat’s group general counsel, and Wladimir Bocquet, director of regulatory affairs, spectrum management and policy at Eutelsat, […]
In a legal ruling likely to be be noted across the sports industry, the President of the Nanterre Commercial Court in France has ordered Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) – organiser of the Dakar Rally, Tour de France, the Paris Marathon amongst other events – specifically to perform its five year media rights exclusive agreement with […]
Spain’s regulatory body CNMC has imposed a €1.5 million fine on Movistar for overcharging its rivals for El Partidazo, the premium service that airs the biggest football clash of every game week. In season 2016-2017, Movistar reported fewer El Partidazo subscribers than the real figure saving costs for the company and overcharging its rivals Orange, […]
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), the global coalition dedicated to protecting the dynamic legal market for creative content and reducing online piracy, has confirmed the addition of Comcast and Viacom as members. While NBCUniversal and Paramount Pictures were already ACE members, the addition of their parent companies will strengthen ACE’s comprehensive approach to […]
The C-Band Alliance (CBA) used a letter to Senator John Kennedy, the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and to Christopher Coons, a ranking member of the same committee. The letter was ostensibly to correct some misstatements made by two influential organisations. One “misrepresentation” came from David Williams of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance who in […]
US pay-radio operator SiriusXM is facing further problems in an argument with Germany’s Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft over a dispute which concerns SiriusXM’s technology on its satellite radio transmissions. Fraunhofer had filed a patent infringement against Sirius in February 2017 alleging that the satellite service is using certain multicarrier modulation (MCM) technologies covered by Fraunhofer patents. The patents […]