A significant number of Britons are using either Virtual Personal Networks (VPN) or proxy servers, research from YouGov reveals. The Incognito Individual report explores the different ways people go undetected online. It shows that 16 per cent of British adults have used either a VPN or proxy server, with the main motivation for doing so […]
UK intellectual property protection organisation FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft) has welcomed the recent move by Facebook to update its Commerce Policy to ban the sale of illicit streaming devices from its site. According to the site,items, products or services sold on Facebook must comply with its Community Standards, as well as the Commerce Policies, with […]
UK free-to-air digital satellite platform Freesat has reported strong growth in the twelve months to March 30th 2017, with 904,000 devices sold – an increase of 90 per cent year on year – benefiting from the continuing popularity of smart and UHD televisions. Freesat’s customer base continues to thrive with 58,000 new homes added over […]
TiVo’s president and CEO is to retire from the company. Thomas Carson informed the company’s Board of Directors of his intention to retire from his current positions at TiVo Corporation after more than 11 years with the Company and its predecessors. Carson will stay on until a successor is appointed and will then serve the […]
Suggesting that the General Approach adopted Culture Council towards the AVMS Directive goes further than the European Commission proposal and promises a positive result on promotion of European works ahead of negotiations on the final text with European Parliament and Commission, the Society of Audiovisual Authors (SAA), whose members represent over 120,000 screenwriters and directors, […]
Kazakhstan’s Information & Communications Minister, Dauren Abeyev says that the state’s public broadcasting channels – terrestrial and satellite – are not competitors to each other. BBC Monitoring has reported that the country has recently modernised the portfolio of channels. “We have modernised state media assets and launched a first Kazakh Yel Arna cinema channel, which […]
The European Council has signed off the proposal for a revised directive on audiovisual media services (AVMS). At the heart is a 30 per cent content quota for European SVoD services. The Council says aim of the proposal is to respond to the unprecedented technological and market changes of digital shift and to boost the […]
Multinational cable, fibre, telecommunications, content and media company Altice has announced a new unified global strategy, which it says represents a new step in the Group’s evolution to strengthen its industrial and operational platform. This follows Altice’s transformation into a leading transatlantic telecoms, content and advertising company serving more than 50 million customers around the […]
In a move that creates a new, fully-integrated communications provider in Malta, Apax Partners Midmarket, Fortino Capital and Vodafone Group are to combine cable, broadband and pay-TV provider Melita and Vodafone Malta. The transaction combines Vodafone Malta, the country’s leading mobile operator with a 4G mobile network covering 99 per cent of the Maltese population, […]
UK-based communications and TV facilities business Arqiva has reported its 9-month revenue saying that it was enjoying “double digit” earnings growth and an order book of some £6 billion (€6.96bn). Arqiva is owned (48 per cent) by Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and (40 per cent) by Australian private equity investors Macquarie and IFM. Arqiva’s […]