India’s Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRAI) has brought into play its new rules and regulations, which are effective as of July 3rd. In essence the new suite of rules cover tariffs, interconnection regulations and quality of service minimum standards. The rules set out how addressable systems must be used. Also covered are 60-day reporting rules where […]
The introduction of 5G in Portugal will lead to changes in the frequency spectrum now used for DTT broadcasts, starting from the fourth quarter of 2019. This follows the presentation of a roadmap by Portugal’s National Communications Authority for the release of the 700 MHz frequency band, which will no longer be used for DTT […]
Consultancy firm EY has published the second edition of its study on online content piracy in France (Piratage en France), which aims to assess the shortfall related to the illegal consumption of audiovisual content in France. The study quantifies the impacts of piracy on the state budget, direct jobs, the financing of creativity and lastly […]
South Africa’s media regulator Icasa says that despite objections from dominant incumbent pay-TV operator MultiChoice, it will open up the pay-TV market in the country. Icasa held hearings during May into the nation’s pay-TV services, and ICASA is known to want to ease the entry of rival operators to MultiChoice. Icasa spokesman Paseka Maleka says […]
Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal has lost another arbitration award brought by Lebanon’s LBC International, and its chairman Pierre el Daher. Beirut-based LBCI has been the subject of multiple owners over the past few years, and the allegations concern Al-Waleed’s stewardship of the broadcaster, and which resulted in the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Paris […]
The DTT migration to release the 700 MHz band for 5G services in Spain will be completed by March 2020, some 3 months before the EU deadline of June 30th. The Spanish government has approved a DTT plan to reorder the frequencies by that time which includes compensations and financial aids to broadcasters and users. […]
Digital platform security specialist Irdeto has detected 5,088 unique illegal streams redistributing games over the Internet during the group stage of the 2018 World Cup. The bookies’ favourites, Brazil won the unwanted moniker of most-pirated team, with more than 582 illegal streams detected for its three group stage matches. Brazil was followed by Morocco (561 […]
BBC Director General Tony Hall has been elected as the new President of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). Delphine Ernotte Cunci, Chief Executive Officer of France Télévisions, will serve as Vice-President. Both were elected by absolute majority at the EBU’s 80th General Assembly in Tirana and will take up the new roles from January 1st […]
At last night’s Media Summit Brexit Briefing there were a number of estimates on how likely it was a deal would be negotiated so that UK based international broadcasters could confidently plan to stay. Unfortunately, by far the most optimistic guess was 80 per cent likely and, as several pointed out, 80 per cent certainty […]
Grupo de Antipirateria of the Policia Nacional in Spain, led by Inspector Marlene Álvarez Vicente, has become the inaugural winner of an award from the Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance (AAPA) for a successful initiative to tackle audiovisual piracy. The award, presented at this year’s Europol Intellectual Property Crime conference in Budapest, recognised the Grupo de Antipirateria’s […]