According to Russia’s Sputnik news agency the first OneWeb satellites that will be launched by Soyuz-2 rockets from the Baikonur cosmodrome are on schedule for delivery to the launch site late summer or early autumn. Launches are currently planned to start in December with each rocket carrying 35 per month. “Deliveries of OneWeb satellites to […]
Following successful legal action taken by Sky, Atlantic Ocean Sands Hotel Limited, the licensee of Ocean Sands Hotel, Enniscrone, in the Republic of Ireland, has been ordered to pay damages of €14,616 for infringing Sky’s copyright by showing Sky Sports programming illegally in the premises. The company was also ordered to pay costs. Sky was […]
Nairobi’s chief magistrate Helen Onkwani sentenced Peter Esiaba for 5 years having been found guilty of pirating DStv signals. Esiaba is among three suspects that were arrested in Garissa Township, and charged with distributing illegally sourced DSTV signals. The police officers drawn from the National Police Service and Kenya Copyright Board conducted the raid, dismantled […]
Notoriously known as one of the most pirated shows in history, Game of Thrones is just one example of the impact illicit streaming can have. It begs the questions – what is the real impact of piracy? And, what can be done about it? Simon Trudelle, Senior Director Product Marketing at NAGRA, offered the following […]
The Premier League has reached a new agreement with IMG to continue operating Premier League Productions (PLP) for the next three seasons, until the end of the 2021/22 campaign. PLP produces and distributes all of the league’s international programming, including coverage of all 380 matches over the course of a season. Seven magazine shows are […]
Canal Algerie is an Algerian French-speaking public television channel, owned by EPTV (Algerian Public Television), who also owns A3 (available on BADR-6), Terrestrial TV, Tamazight TV and Coran TV. Canal Algerie broadcasts its programmes 24/7 via different platforms all over the world. It is now being carried by Arabsat on its 5C (at 20 degrees […]
Elon Musk’s debut launch of 60 ‘Starlink’ satellites should happen on May 23rd – probably. Two planned launches last week were scrubbed for bad weather and in the case of the second launch in order to update software on the satellites. But Musk took the postponement to brief journalists on how he saw the mega-constellation […]
Faster time-to-market for interoperable, standards-based Connected Home solutions which help operators unlock additional income has been made possible, as Broadband Forum published its Open Broadband – USP Agent (OB-USP-Agent) implementation. Giving vendors a code base to either integrate into their devices or use as a reference implementation as they utilize User Services Platform (USP), OB-USP-Agent […]
Tencent’s hit game PUBG Mobile achieved sequential revenue growth of 189 per cent, outperforming rivals Fortnite and Knives Out in the first quarter of 2019, according to IHS Markit’s recent analysis of Priori Data title data. Net revenue for PUBG Mobile surged by 241 percent just between February and March, despite a continuing – although […]
Amino is enabling Dutch cable and internet service providers DELTA and Caiway to provide TV services from these brands on a shared platform, integrated via AminoTV. This move comes a year after both DELTA and Caiway were acquired in separate deals by Swedish private equity group EQT and merged into DELTA Fiber Netherlands. Amino is […]