Orange and Ericsson are carrying out the first 5G trials in Spain in a Madrid street with connection speeds of 15Gbps average (up to 17 Gbps maximum) through the 26 GHz band with up to 800 MHz. With a speed of 15 Gbps, four HD movies could be downloaded in a second or the six […]
The UK’s booming creative industries could be worth £128.4 billion (€148.1bn) to the UK economy by 2025, and help to create up to 1 million new jobs by 2030, according to an independent review of the sector commissioned by the government and led by the current Chair of ITV Sir Peter Bazalgette. The review – […]
Recent innovations on intellectual property rights enforcement strategies were the focus of the first Europol Intellectual Property Crime Conference organised in Antwerp. Some 400 senior law enforcement official, security and industry experts from 42 countries attended the conference, co-organised by Europol, the Belgian Customs Authority, UL (Underwriters Laboratories) and the International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition (IACC). Participants reviewed […]
Karen Bradley, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, has referred Fox’s proposed takeover of Sky to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on public interest grounds. The CMA will now examine how the deal would impact media plurality and broadcasting standards in the UK. Media plurality means that a diversity of […]
Research from consultancy firm Arthur D. Little (ADL) estimates that the GIGAWorld – the world enabled by widespread access to high quality, gigabit Internet in which people, machines and the environment collaborate intelligently – could generate billions of Euros for the European economy, and trillions globally. The report, commissioned by international TV and broadband company […]
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) – the organisation that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide – has released Connecting with Music, the 2017 Music Consumer Insight Report. Based on research conducted by Ipsos Connect, the report examines the ways in which fans are engaging with recorded music across 13 of […]
Russia’s media and communications watchdog Roskomnadzor (Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications) has permanently blocked 234 digital piracy websites, according to Alexander Zharov, head of the body. Zharov declared that the fight against digital piracy is successful. According to Zharov, the Moscow City Court blocked 3,700 websites […]
Over one million illegal set-top boxes with add-ons that allow consumers to stream content illegally have been sold in the UK in the last two years, putting the public at significant risk, according to a new report, Cracking Down on Digital Piracy, which collates expert insights from the Intellectual Property Office (IPO), FACT, City of […]
India’s former chairman of its Space Research Organisation (ISRO), G. Madhavan Nair appeared in court on September 16th in connection with the ISRO-owned Antrix and corruption allegations. Special Judge Virender Kumar Goyal also directed that Nair, plus Bhaskar Narayana Rao, the then Director in ISRO, K R Sridhar Murthy, the then Executive Director of Antrix, […]
Snapchat has blocked access to Al Jazeera content in Saudi Arabia. The social media platform reports that it was asked by the Saudi authorities to remove the Qatari-backed broadcaster’s Discover Publisher Channel because it violated local laws. Qatar is in an ongoing dispute with Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt and the UAE. The four countries cut […]