Up to 3.7 million UK pensioners who previously received a free TV licence will now have to pay for it. The BBC will abort blanket free licences for over-75s from June 2020. Any household with someone aged over 75 who receives Pension Credit will be eligible for a free TV licence funded by the BBC […]
BT is reportedly in talks to invest alongside the BBC and ITV in new streaming service Britbox. According to The Sunday Telegraph, BT has held preliminary discussions with ITV about a multi-million pound investment into the service. However, the report also suggests a disagreement over the valuation of the service could see the talks fail. […]
Vodafone Spain is this week launching the first commercial 5G services in 15 Spanish cities: Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Sevilla, Málaga, Zaragoza, Bilbao, Vitoria, San Sebastián, La Coruña, Vigo, Gijón, Pamplona, Logroño and Santander. The company is already selling 5G mobile phones from manufacturers including Samsung, Xiaomi and LG to give access to the 5G services. […]
Following successful trials with customers in London, Three UK has confirmed it will launch 5G in August with a 5G home broadband service in London. Three then intends to launch both mobile and home broadband offerings in 25 towns and cities across the UK before the end of the year. The move ollows EE which […]
Consumers will spend 800 hours on mobile internet this year, increasing to 930 hours by 2021 to account for 31 per cent of global media consumption in that year, up from 27 per cent in 2019, predicts Zenith’s latest Media Consumption Forecasts. However, the growth of mobile internet is slowing
Last week a meeting was held, hosted by the Technology Policy Institute in Washington DC, to hear various presentations and submissions on the increasingly vexed proposal by the C-Band Alliance to restructure 180 MHz of satellite spectrum over the US to help speed the roll-out of 5G. The meeting was held to review – and […]
At the E3 gaming expo in Los Angeles, Microsoft revealed the first details of their next gaming console. Codenamed Project Scarlett, the console boasts significantly reduced loading times, and a processor four times more powerful than the Xbox One X. In a video presentation, Microsoft claimed the new console will run native 4K at 60 […]
This year, for the first time, adults in China will spend over half of their daily media time on the internet, according to eMarketer. This is largely a result of increased government efforts to transform and develop internet infrastructure in the more rural parts of the country. Digital time spent, which includes all desktop/laptop internet […]
The 2019 Champions League final pulled in the largest ever audience for BT Sport in its six-year history. A total audience of 11.3 million viewers, across all digital and TV platforms, tuned in to see Liverpool win the trophy with a 2-0 victory over Tottenham Hotspur on June 1st. The BT Sport audience was around […]
Legendary Hollywood director Steven Spielberg is set to create a horror series for new digital platform Quibi. The short form video platform, fronted by founder Jeffrey Katzenberg, is set for an April 2020 launch – initially in the US, before a global rollout. Primarily targeting mobile viewers, the service will cost $4.99 a month with […]