French media regulator ARCEP has received four applications by the deadline for licences to spectrum in the 2.6 GHz and 800 MHz frequency bands, to be used for ultra high-speed mobile networks. The four applications came from: Bouygues Telecom, Free Mobile, Orange France and Société Française du Radiotéléphone (SFR). ARCEP will now examine these applications, […]
Investment bank Morgan Stanley, in a note to clients, reminds investors that BSkyB is delivering a “resilient operating performance”. Despite the high-profile traumas of the past few months, BSkyB just goes rolling along, delivering “solid top-line growth….improving margins…. and a “natural reservoir of growth given that only 28 per cent of Sky’s customers take its […]
As part of a broader reorganisation this summer, Canoe Ventures has hired Jonathan Bokor as general manager in charge of interactive TV solutions, promoted Chris Pizzurro to be GM of VoD advertising solutions and recruited Sanjay Patel as vice president of marketing. Last month, Canoe CEO Kathy Timko reshuffled the senior management team of the […]
Getting its defence in early, Google has said it would be unworkable for it to block entire sites. In a speech to the Royal Television Society on Wednesday it has been widely trailed that UK culture secretary Jeremy Hunt will call on search engines, ISPs and transaction companies to play a more active role in […]
Berit Svendsen, the CEO of Telenor’s CA subsidiary Conax is named executive vice-president of the group and CEO of the Norwegian business in a shake-up aimed at ‘enhancing innovation.’ Telenor said it was increasing its focus on delivering an “always-on experience” and was establishing a new Digital Services unit, headed by executive vice-president Kristin Skogen […]
Cisco Systems has more than halved its revenue forecast amid slowing economic growth and increased competition. Cisco said annual revenues would increase by between 5-7 per cent over the next three years, down from a previous target of 12-17 per cent. But it maintained profits would rise by 7-9 per cent during the same period. […]
CSA, the French TV and radio regulator, has proposed the immediate adoption of the DVB-T2 broadcasting standard and MPEG-4 compression standard for all new DTT channels. If adopted by the government, the recommendation would require most consumers to change their STBs and TV sets for equipment that is not expected to be available to the […]
Canadian pay-TV producer Astral Media says foreign Internet competitors such as movie provider Netflix should be subject to the same rules as Canadian broadcasters, noting digital competitors don’t contribute to local programming or pay taxes. “They come here and don’t spend a penny,” chief executive Ian Greenberg said. “They don’t have any rules whatsoever. Taxes […]
Broadcom is to buy NetLogic for about $3.7 billion to expand its line-up of chips used in wireless network equipment to take advantage of growing demand for mobile data services. The $50-per-share deal, which represents a premium of 57 per cent over NetLogic’s Friday close of $31.91, sent NetLogic’s shares soaring 50 per cent. Broadcom […]
Jeremy Hunt, the UK culture secretary, is to ask regulator Ofcom to define a means of measuring cross-media power in the UK and consider whether to cap market share of groups which have too much influence over British media; i.e. (for now) News Corp and the BBC. The minister wants Ofcom to create an agreed […]