Companies laying high-speed fibre cables used by large businesses, mobile operators and broadband providers will have greater access to broadband infrastructure provider Openreach’s ducts and poles, under proposals set out by communications regulator Ofcom. The plans are published alongside a consultation on Ofcom’s Business Connectivity Market Review (BCMR), which looks at competition for dedicated, high-speed […]
The C-band Alliance (formed by Intelsat, SES, Eutelsat and Telesat) is stressing that its proposed restructuring of C-band frequencies for 5G usage over the US will not exceed 180 MHz (plus a 20 MHz guard band) in the proposed speedy time-frame of 18-36 months. The consortium’s previous discussions with the FCC had offered 100 MHz […]
The BBC and Sky have called on the European commission to take action against BeoutQ, the Saudi Arabian streaming service they say provides UK viewers with illegal access to pay-TV content including Premier League football. BeoutQ STBs are available internationally, including the UK. The service has had a surge in popularity after making global headlines […]
According to US pay-TV services DISH and Sling TV, AT&T has made what they describe as an “unprecedented” move to pull HBO and Cinemax content from their subscribers, after making “untenable” demands designed specifically to harm customers, particularly those in rural areas, as well as damage competing pay-TV providers. They say that despite an opposing […]
The DTG, the UK’s collaboration centre for innovation in digital media technology, has published its D-Book 11, the only universally deployed technical standard for TV and DTT in the UK. The D-Book is updated annually with the collaboration of industry, underpinning Freeview, YouView, Freesat, EE TV, BT TV and TalkTalk TV. D-Book 11 changes and […]
Alex Mahon, Chief Executive of UK Public Service Broadcaster Channel 4, and the Channel 4 Board have confirmed that Leeds will be the location of its new National HQ and Bristol and Glasgow will be the locations of its two new Creative Hubs. Channel 4 announced its 4 All the UK strategy in March 2018, […]
Intelsat’s CEO Stephen Spengler told analysts during its Q3 conference call that the C-band Alliance’s (CBA) plan to free up C-band capacity for the USA’s speedy adoption of 5G would be limited to 200 MHz, and that this bandwidth was the highest slice of spectrum likely to be available in the short-to-medium term. Spengler said […]
The Auckland High Court has ruled that Internet-streaming service My Box cannot be represented as legal, and that using My Box (and other units like it) to show SKY movies, TV and sports programmes breaches copyright. Sophie Moloney, SKY’s General Counsel, welcomed the ruling. “This decision, along with the recent ruling against Fibre TV boxes in […]
The UK Government is to give rural areas a £200 million funding package as part of its full-fibre broadband pledge. The money – announced by Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond as part of his Budget measures – has been allocated from the National Productivity Infrastructure Fund and is intended as a stimulus for companies […]
US President Donald Trump has ordered a range of agencies to work on developing what he describes as a “balanced, forward-looking, flexible, and sustainable approach to spectrum management” as part of his desire for America be first in fifth-generation (5G) wireless technologies. In a Presidential Memorandum, he notes that in the growing digital economy, wireless […]