A man who infringed Sky’s broadcast copyright by streaming Sky Sports content to the public has been forced to pay £45,000 (€51,500) in fines and damages. Between March 3rd 2017 and April 1st 2017, Wasaq Rasheed shared streams from (the then) Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2. These streams were found on IPTVdonations.com, an illegally-run […]
Orange Spain increased its revenues by 4.3 per cent in the first quarter of the year to €1.3 billion. The company increased its convergent revenues by 7 per cent to €526 million, largely thanks to the 2.1 per cent rise in the number of convergent subscribers and 3.8 per cent rise is ARPU to €57.10. […]
Telefónica’s pay-TV platform Movistar Plus has increased its subscribers base by 9 per cent in the last year to 3.9 million. Its convergent packages have been key to boosting subscriptions; the Movistar Fusión package is the most popular with 4.5 million subscribers, up 2 per cent year-on-year after the addition of 34,000 subscribers in the […]
INCOMPAS, the Internet and competitive networks association, whose members include leading streaming and Internet edge companies in the US, as well as new competitive fibre network builders, filed a Petition in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (D.C. Circuit) challenging the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) Restoring Internet Freedom Order. The […]
Channel and content piracy is being further attacked by the MENA Broadcast Satellite Anti-Piracy Coalition which has confirmed successful actions against 18 illegal Arabic-language channels and four international channels, allegedly guilty of showing unlicensed or deliberately pirated content. The Coalition also announced a batch of new members, including beIN; Es’hailSat; Front Row; Muso; My HD […]
The Association of Commercial Television in Europe (ACT) has welcomed the European Commission’s Communication on tackling online disinformation. In a statement ACT said: “The Communication is a welcome first step towards addressing the major challenges disinformation raises and its root causes. Notably by addressing regulatory asymmetries between the fully regulated and editorially responsible broadcast environment […]
The Colombian telecommunication services industry is undergoing rapid change due to increasing consumer dependence on wireless-enabled services. Frost & Sullivan’s latest analysis, Colombian Telecommunication Services Market, Forecast to 2022, expects the business to top 11.5 billion by 2021 with fixed and mobile broadband, IPTV and machine-to-machine (M2M) services to grow at double-digit rates. Revenue for […]
Sky has announced that, effective immediately, the music-streaming Spotify app will be available via Sky Q. Anyone using the latest Sky STB will now be able to gain access to millions of songs straight from their Q homepage. Spotify is available for free, or via a monthly £9.99 subscription which removes all advertising. Jorge Espinel, […]
Cinedigm and Gatherer Entertainment have launched a partnership to launch a women’s (35+) lifestyle SVoD service in the US. The Gatherer Network is expected to launch in the fourth quarter of 2018 across Cinedigm’s addressable base of more than 535 million consumer devices, with distribution plans for web and mobile, including both iOS and Android […]
Avanti Communications, the troubled London-based specialist satellite operator, received shareholder approval for its restructuring (‘debt for equity’) plan at a special meeting on April 25th. It means that almost 2 billion new shares will be admitted for trading on London’s Alternative Investment Market today (April 26th). However, the restructuring still leaves the company urgently looking […]