Netflix has complained that traffic management must apply to all or to none. In a letter to shareholders the company states: “Comcast caps its residential broadband customers at 250 gigabytes per month. On the Xbox, the Netflix app, the Hulu app, and the HBO GO app, are all subject to this cap. But Comcast has […]
EchoStar Technologies is withdrawing from the US cable set-top box market and is to cease development of its Aria platform immediately as a result of poor sales, the company told Multichannel News. Instead, the company is to shift resources to support what it describes as it “unique intellectual property and advanced content-delivery technologies”. The company […]
The Italian government has confirmed the adoption of the DVB-T2 standard for Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) reception equipment, from January 1st 2015. Both stand-alone and integrated decoders will have to be compatible with the DVB-T2 standard, and from July 1st 2015 will become the only ones that can be sold on the Italian market. The […]
India’s media regulator, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), has been robustly told that it does not have a mandate to regulate TV advertising. The responses have come as a result of a consultation process organised by TRAI ahead of possible new regulations which would limit the amount of time available for commercial breaks. […]
Madrid-based satellite operator Hispasat achieved record revenues for its 2011 trading year helped by new capacity coming on stream from its Amazonas-2 and Hispasat 1E craft. Specifically, operating revenues grew last year by more than 3.4 per cent (to €187.5 million) despite Spain’s tough economic position. Hispasat was helped by income from ‘the Americas’, which […]
AirTies Wireless Networks, the innovative supplier of advanced technology to the Broadcast and Broadband industry, hasreceived ISO 9001 certification. ISO 9001:2008 is a globally recognised international quality management standard that aims to enhance customer satisfaction by ensuring that companies adhere to regulatory requirements and have mechanisms in place for continued system-wide improvement. AirTies CEO, Bulent […]
UK media regulator Ofcom has launched an investigation into Sky News following its admission that it hacked the emails of individuals suspected of criminal activity. BSkyB said it had authorised a journalist to access emails belonging to John Darwin, the so-called ‘canoe man’ because he faked his death in a canoeing accident. Sky News insisted […]
Ofcom has recommended that the UK’s Competition Commission maintain its original stance, which provisionally found that Sky’s control over pay-TV movie rights in was restricting competition between pay-TV providers, leading to higher prices and reduced choice and innovation for subscribers. Ofcom contends that the arrival of video-on-demand services such as Netflix and LOVEFiLM has not […]
In an attempt to tackle the public deficit, the Spanish government has passed a bill to allow Regional Administrations to sell or privatise their Regional public broadcasters. Regions will be able to choose how to run their public broadcasters, and if they keep them, the channels won’t be allowed to run deficits. The 13 existing […]
Richard Ross, the highly successful head of Disney Channel who became chairman of Disney Studios in 2009, has stepped down because of the record flop movie John Carter. He announced in an email: “I no longer believe that the chairman role is the right professional fit for me.” At the movie division, Ross, 50, approved […]