EE, the UK’s biggest mobile phone operator, saw its operating revenue decline 1.1 per cent to £1.469 billion in the first quarter. The drop follows a 1.4 per cent fall in operating revenue in 2014. BT is due to acquire EE as soon as the £12.5 billion deal receives regulatory approval. BT will buy out […]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is just one of many civil liberty organisations which have heavily criticised Turkmenistan’s new laws forbidding the ownership of satellite dishes. Last week Turkmenistan banned satellite dishes saying they are “unsightly”. HRW says that this latest action in not the first time the Turkmenistan authorities have attempted to curb its citizens’ […]
There were 255 million requests to BBC iPlayer in March, with a weekly average of 57 million requests. Top Gear performed well during March, with the final two episodes following Jeremy Clarkson’s sacking attracting over 3.6 million requests in total. The BBC reports that the profile of iPlayer users has evened out over time in […]
Specialist provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions NAGRA has revealed that French pay-TV operator Canal+Group has deployed multiscreen services on more than one million Android devices using NAGRA multiscreen solutions. The NAGRA MediaLive Secure Player pre-integrated with NAGRA’s studio-grade DRM, anyCAST PRM, allows Canal+Group to deliver a variety of Internet-enabled services in a […]
Following similar successful projects with both Sky UK and Sky Italia, advanced wireless and OTT/IPTV technology specialist AirTies Wireless Networks has confirmed that it is supplying its Wireless Connector SC201 to Sky Deutschland. This gives German customers the opportunity to stream content from the Sky Anytime service to the Sky+ HD Set Top Box over […]
Globecast, global content contribution, management and distribution provider, and Arabsat have confirmed the launch of Arabsat TV Everywhere, a new multi-platform OTT TV service with live streams of the best Arabic channels. Powered by Globecast’s OTT Live solution, Arabsat TV Everywhere is an expansion of the Global Arabic Bouquet (GAB), a grouping of premium Arabic […]
In advance of the The Internet & Television Expo 2015, RDK Management has provided an update on the continued global progress and adoption of the Reference Design Kit (RDK), a pre-integrated software bundle that provides a common framework for powering customer-premises equipment from TV service providers. “The RDK provides a modern software platform on which […]
The Kudelski Group, an independent provider of media protection and value-added service technology, has announced a multi-year patent licence agreement with The Walt Disney Company. While the specific terms remain confidential, this agreement provides The Walt Disney Company with a licence to the Kudelski Group’s patent portfolio, subject to certain limitations. “The Kudelski Group continues […]
To mark Star Wars Day on May 4th, an annual celebration of all things Jedi, Sky is showing all six Star Wars movies, back-to-back. Then, on May 5th, it’s the Revenge of the Fifth: celebrating the dark side with another movie marathon. All six movies in the saga – A New Hope, The Empire Strikes […]
Broadcom, a global player in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, has announced it is the industry’s first to receive NAGRA NOCS3 certification for HEVC and Ultra HD STB systems-on-a-chip. The security architecture supports the latest in content protection, ensuring the delivery of premium content and services to multiple TVs and devices in the […]