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BT fined £42m for Openreach contracts breach

Dominant UK telco BT is to be fined £42 million (€48.5m) for what regulator Ofcom describes as a “serious” breach of its rules, after the company reduced compensation payments to other telecoms...

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North America: Non-pay TV homes to double

The number of pay-TV subs in North America [Canada and the US] will fall by 10 million from 112 million in the peak year of 2012 to 102 million in 2022 according to Digital TV Research. Although this...

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Online ad expenditure to exceed TV this year

Global internet advertising expenditure will grow 13 per cent to reach $205 billion (€189bn) in 2017, according to Zenith’s Advertising Expenditure Forecasts. Internet advertising will attract 36.9 per...

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TV Everywhere available to 72% of Europe pay-TV subs

TV Everywhere (TVE) – effectively the ability for pay-TV customers to also watch traditional TV offers (DTH, cable, IPTV, terrestrial) on other screens such as PC, smartphones and tablets – has become...

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Ericsson out of media?

Part of Ericsson’s restructuring may see it pull it out of media services, as a new streamlining strategy from CEO Börje Ekholm sees it refocus on three segments: networks, digital services and the...

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Virgin suspends four as it restates Lightning figures

Virgin Media has suspended four staff and begun an internal investigation after admitting overstating the expansion of its superfast broadband network, Project Lightening. According to Liberty Global,...

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Multichoice implements Accenture StormTest

MultiChoice, a video entertainment company and subsidiary of Naspers, has expanded its video test automation capacity with the implementation of Accenture StormTest, a suite of automated testing...

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Intertrust takes Kiora Media assets

Intertrust Technologies Corporation has acquired the assets of Kiora Media to expand the reach of its media distribution products. Founded in 2010, Kiora Media built a unique content distribution...

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Portugal ends 2016 with 3.6m pay-TV subs

The number of pay-TV subscribers in Portugal reached 3.67 million at the end of the fourth quarter of 2016, representing a growth of 145,000 (+4.1 per cent) on the previous year. According to data from...

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‘Pull the analogue plug tonight’ India’s MSOs warned

India’s Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (MIB) has issued a tough and uncompromising warning to the few ‘Phase IV’ cable operators that they must switch off their analogue transmissions by...

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Spain: Pay-TV subs top 6m

For the first time, pay-TV in Spain has surpassed the 6 million subscribers mark, according to the latest report from Spain’s competition watchdog Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia...

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Ofcom may cap Openreach prices

Ofcom is consulting on plans to cut the price BT’s Openreach can charge other telecoms companies for access to its network by up to 40 per cent. Openreach would also face stricter deadlines for...

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Optus introduces Yes TV by Fetch Multiroom

Australian triple play operator Optus is boosting its fixed offering with the launch of new broadband plans and Yes TV by Fetch Multiroom. According to Ben White, Managing Director of Marketing and...

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China + Thaicom working with Measat and SES

Beijing Star Time Telecommunications Technology has emerged as the ‘secret’ business linked with Thailand’s Thaicom to build two giant communications satellites, and perhaps a new LEO constellation....

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Japanese networks in streaming pact

Japan’s major commercial television networks have agreed to develop jointly a system that will enable simultaneous broadcasting of broadcast TV content via IP. Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, TV...

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Apple wants to sell Premium Bundles

Apple TV wants sell Premium Bundles if top channels in another move to identify itself as a major pay-TV player. It already sells HBO, Showtime and Starz separately but now wants to pack them into a...

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Virgin fraud sentencing

Two men convicted of conspiracy to defraud Virgin Media have been sentenced at Leicester Crown Court. Manish Javahar of Leicester pleaded guilty of Conspiracy to defraud and was sentenced to 21 months,...

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Trump repeals ISP privacy rules

President Trump has repealed Obama-era broadband privacy rules. Republicans in Congress last week narrowly passed the repeal of the privacy rules with no Democratic support and over the strong...

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Berners-Lee attacks encryption compromise

The web’s creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee has told the BBC that UK plans to weaken encryption are wrong and he also promised to battle any moves by the Trump administration to weaken net neutrality. As he...

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“Surging” demand for In Flight entertainment

In Flight Entertainment and broadband connectivity company Gogo has contracted extra satellite transponder capacity from SES in order to meet what the pair describe as “surging Inflight demand in North...

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