Italy’s Antitrust Authority has fined sports OTT broadcaster DAZN €500,000 for misleading publicity and information on its 2018/2019 Italian football package. Following an investigation launched last August, the Antitrust Authority found the streaming service guilty of unfair business practices, by violating article 21 of the Consumer Code. Specifically, in its promotional activity, DAZN used advertising […]

The latest Which? broadband satisfaction survey reveals that customers with the UK’s largest providers are the most likely to be getting a bad deal. BT, Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin Media supply almost nine in 10 broadband customers, yet year after year these are the providers that occupy the bottom of the consumer champion’s league table. […]

No sooner than one of the FCC’s Commissioners makes (slightly) positive noises about the possible reallocation of some satellite C-band frequencies over the US than the FCC’s chairman Ajit Pai tells a conference that it was important to get any decision right, and that the FCC wouldn’t be making a ‘right now’ decision. Asked when […]

Following advanced—television.com’s report of the success of an investigation into a global illegal IPTV streaming business, further details have emerged of participants’ role in the anti-piracy operation. Led by the Spanish National Police (Cuerpo Nacional de Policía) in collaboration with police forces in the United Kingdom, Denmark, Europol, the Premier League and Irdeto, 14 locations […]

UK broadband infrastructure provider Openreach has launched a consultation for the country’s leading broadband and telephone providers asking for their views on how it can upgrade consumers and businesses throughout the country onto next generation ‘full fibre’ broadband connections. Unlike the move to digital TV, the process of upgrading broadband connections to ‘full fibre’ will […]

The operators of a pirate streaming organisation have today been jailed for a total of 17 years for conspiracy to defraud; some of the longest sentences ever issued for piracy-related crimes. Steven King, who masterminded the fraud, has been sentenced to seven years and four months’ imprisonment. Paul Rolston received a sentence of six years […]