The lobbying effort is backed by more than 15 organisations from the creative industries and, for the first time, Amicus/Unite and the Trade Union Congress. The coalition urges the government to ensure a tough stance is taken in the final Digital Britain report, due to be published by the communications minister, Lord Carter. “Job losses […]
The chief executive of BT Vision, Dan Marks, has quit to pursue his own interests. IPTV service BT Vision is at the heart of the UK telco’s efforts to move beyond traditional phone services. But Marks warned that without an acceleration to Ofcom’s review of the pay-TV sector, enabling BT to access BSkyB’s premium film […]
A year after placing shares worth £32 million (E37m), Phorm, the ad targeting company, wants to sell 19.4 percent of the company through a new share offering for £15 million. In 2007, it burned through $22.4 million cash and made a $32.8 million loss. So far the controversial system has several trials but no confirmed […]
More than 70 per cent of UK homes without Internet access have no interest in getting broadband or feel it would be too expensive to do so, according to research published from Ofcom. With Internet takeup in the UK running at about 70 per cent, and only another 5 per cent promising to get connected […]
Sky says the “crown jewels” list of sporting events reserved for free-to-air television amounts to a “tax on sport” that subsidises terrestrial broadcasters. In its submission to the government’s review of the A list of sporting events that must shown on free to air TV, the pay-TV broadcaster also argues that the policy reduces competition […]
Calls for internet service providers to halt illegal file sharing are “naive”, according to Charles Dunstone, the boss of Carphone Warehouse. He said the solution is education about the benefits of respecting copyright coupled with services that allow consumers “to get content easily and cheaply”. Dunstone said people had become “obsessed” by peer-to-peer file sharing […]
According to UBS Research, AT&T is slowing the deployment of their “next-generation” VDSL IPTV service, U-Verse. UBS initially expected AT&T to pass 11 million homes in 2009, but has 're-guesstimated' that AT&T will pass just 4-5 million homes this year. That would be down from 9 million in 2008. AT&T admits there’s been a recession-related […]
A new DTH platform for Germany will launch with channels from the Eutelsat Kabelkiosk platform. AllesSehen will have two packages of channels available. One will offer 11 German language channels, a second, called US Entertain, will include a number of mainly English language channels, including America Unleashed and BBC Prime. In addition, viewers will be […]
Viacom Brand Solutions, Pearl & Dean and MySpace are combining to launch Screen, a new cross-media commercial venture in the UK, offering brands a tailored TV, cinema and online advertising service. The three firms will collaborate on specific projects using their separate, existing sales teams. The partnership will present advertisers and agencies with a one-stop-shop […]
Dell'Oro Group research has reported that the number of DVR-equipped pay-TV set-top box unit shipments contracted 20 per cent year-over-year in the first quarter this year and accounted for one-third of the total set-top box shipped during the quarter. This contraction in the first quarter may be attributed to several factors. "First, the economy is […]