The FTTH Conference 2020, scheduled to take place in April 21st-23rd in Berlin, has become the latest industry event to be affected by the Coronavirus. Suggesting that its top priority is to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all the FTTH Conference attendees, event organiser the FTTH Council Europe says it believes that the best […]
A man from Halifax in the North of England has been jailed after he made illegal copies of high-profile films available online before their cinema release date, including Fast & Furious 7. Malik Luqman Farooq was sentenced to 27 months in prison at Southwark Crown Court after pleading guilty to one offence of conspiracy to […]
Vodafone Spain has asked Spain’s regulatory body CNMC to step in and stop the Movistar and Disney+ deal for the sake of free competition in the market. Vodafone believes the deal equates to an “undercover exclusivity” from the dominant operator to the detriment of other companies breaking competition rules. Vodafone argues that Disney+ is delaying […]
UK technology sector trade body techUK has sought to refute number of claims made in a recent documentary, Dirty Streaming: The Internet’s Big Secret, shown on the BBC’s online-only service BBC Three, suggesting that these, or impressions given by the programme, were misleading, or simply incorrect. The programme took as its premise that with the […]
The UK parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee has demanded an explanation over a bidding process for television rights for the Six Nations rugby tournament. It questions a decision to open up a bidding process to subscription providers which could result in the tournament disappearing from terrestrial television. The Chairman of the Six Nations […]
Intelsat has yet to confirm its intentions as far as the FCC’s Order is concerned over the FCC’s accelerated clearing plan. Indeed, Intelsat is silent on whether it wants to proceed at all, and only a week or so ago, the market was awash with reports that it was being urged to consider a Chapter […]
UK Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Secretary of State Oliver Dowden has suggested the BBC needs to be closer to, and understand the perspectives of, the whole of the UK and avoid providing a narrow urban outlook. Delivering a keynote speech at the Enders Media and Telecoms Conference setting out why the UK’s creative and […]
The UK’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee has launched an inquiry into the challenges facing full-fibre and 5G roll-out, examining Government’s pledge to ensure every home and business in the UK has gigabit-capable broadband by 2025. The Committee monitors the policy, administration and expenditure of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and […]
The Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG), an advertising industry initiative to fight criminal activity in the digital advertising supply chain, has released its second annual analysis of ad fraud in Europe, showing extremely low fraud rates in TAG Certified Channels as an increasing number of European companies adopt TAG’s anti-fraud standards. Conducted by The 614 Group, […]
Analyst Sami Kassab at investment bank Exane/BNPP has reported more details on the FCC’s March 3rd Order regarding the reallocation of C-band frequencies over the US. Kassab has ploughed through the 220 pages, plus endless footnotes, and says there are other benefits for the key satellite operators. As this is written, however, there remains uncertainty […]