The digital divide between Americans with and without access to modern broadband networks has narrowed substantially, according to the draft 2019 Broadband Deployment Report, which has been circulated by FCC Chairman Ajit Pai to his fellow commissioners. “For the past two years, closing the digital divide has been the FCC’s top priority,” Chairman Pai said. […]
Italy’s Antitrust Authority has fined Sky Italia €7 million for failing to provide “clear and immediate” information to potential subscribers that it did not have all Serie A’s games in its football package this season. From this season, streaming platform DAZN has been airing three out of the ten weekly matches, leaving Sky Italia with […]
The ETSI Technical Committee on Cybersecurity (TC CYBER) has just released ETSI TS 103 645, a standard for cybersecurity in the Internet of Things, to establish a security baseline for internet-connected consumer products and provide a basis for future IoT certification schemes. As more devices in the home connect to the internet, the cyber security […]
Spain’s Telefónica has requested that the 0.9 per cent telco tax it pays to finance public TV group RTVE is eliminated to put an end to a “discrimination” against telco companies. According to Telefónica, Spanish telcos have paid €1.2 billion to RTVE in taxes over the last 10 years. Alvaro Rico, fiscal advisor at Telefónica […]
UK MPs have declared Facebook needs stricter regulation, with “tough and urgent action” necessary to end the spread of disinformation on its platform. The Commons media select committee has concluded that Mark Zuckerberg failed to show “leadership or personal responsibility” over fake news. Facebook welcomed the committee’s report and said it would be open to […]
Affordable worldwide Internet coverage is one step closer today, after £18 million (€20.55m) of UK Space Agency funding was awarded to OneWeb through the European Space Agency, to aid the development of its next generation satellite constellation. A global communications network in space, the system will be comprised of approximately 650 satellites initially and scale […]
Qatar-based beIN Media Group is gaining increasing support from major sport and entertainment broadcasters in the US for its anti-piracy drive against beoutQ. beoutQ fills 10 channels of mostly beIN Media pirated content. beIN Media is also asking US authorities to place Saudi Arabia on its important ‘priority watch list’ because of the Kingdom’s alleged […]
Members of the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) – a global coalition dedicated to protecting the dynamic legal market for creative content and reducing online piracy – have filed a lawsuit in the US District Court of Central California (Western Division) against OmniverseOne World Television, Inc. and its owner, Jason M. DeMeo, for violating […]
Any risks posed by Huawei as a major supplier in UK telecoms can be managed, cyber-security chiefs have determined. The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre’s decision contrasts with US efforts to persuade its allies to ban the firm from 5G communications networks. The Chinese government is accused of using Huawei as a proxy so it […]
South Africa’s perilous media sector is again making news. Now it is ICASA, the media and telecoms regulator, which is in the headlines. The chairman of ICASA, Rubben Mohlaloga has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for fraud and money laundering – and it seems that despite the ruling ICASA cannot relieve him of […]