Spain’s largest telco Movistar has been fined €6 million for discriminatory actions against its rivals when repairing breakdown in its copper and FTTH networks used by third parties. The company took too much time and delayed without justified cause the provision of its services when repairing breakdowns in the networks used by its competitors. The […]
According to the BBC, Disney’s SVoD service, Disney+, will launch in the UK in March 2020. During a BBC Breakfast segment unveiling the new Britbox streaming platform, broadcaster Charlie Stayt said that rival service Disney+ would be launching in the UK in March of next year. There has so far been no concrete word on […]
A report in the Science and Technology Daily, which is published by China’s Ministry of Science and Technology says ministries, telcos and tech companies have set up a working group to agree an approach to 6G. China’s three mobile operators launched 5G services this. Mobile Europe reports two organisations will be set up in China […]
US telco giant AT&T has proposed its own plan for a private C-band auction to reallocate satellite spectrum over the US. AT&T is almost certain to be a buyer of some of the released satellite spectrum. The AT&T ‘variation’ on the C-Band Alliance’s well-rehearsed scheme, suggests that the spectrum should be released extremely promptly and […]
Discovery, the multichannel programmer, has reported financial results for the quarter ended September 30th 2019. Total Company revenues increased 3 per cent to $2.6 billion (€2.3bn), whilst US advertising revenues increased 3 per cent and distribution increased 6per cent; International advertising revenues increased 10 per cent and distribution increased 8 per cent , ex-FX. David […]
ProSiebenSat.1, the Germany-based mass media company, has reported that Q3 revenues increase by 4 per cent to €926 million in Q3. Key rowths drivers were production house Red Arrow Studios (up 21 per cent), NuCom Group (up 13 per cent) and digital and smart advertising business (up 37 per cent). Streaming platform Joyn remains on […]
Sky Q is bringing the best music apps together with the launch of the new XITE app – an interactive music video platform where users can discover, curate and play music videos, all in one place. With the XITE music video app, music fans can experience a personalised video experience on the big screen. Customers […]
EspañaTV, the Spanish-language channel bouquet launched by AMC Networks International Southern Europe and ATRESMEDIA Internacional, is now available for the first time in France on IPTV platforms SFR and Free, two of the country’s major pay-TV operators. The seven-channel pack is a varied offering of Spanish-language television content marketed outside of Spain, with channels specialised […]
Samsung has confirmed that Netflix will no longer be supported on some of its older smart TV models. From December 1st, the Netflix app will no longer work on some 2010 and 2011 models. Samsung wrote on its support page: “Due to technical limitations, Netflix will no longer be supported on 2010 and 2011 TVs […]
DISH Network has reported revenue totalling $3.17 billion (€2.68bn) for the quarter ending September 30th 2019, compared to $3.4 billion for the corresponding period in 2018. Net income attributable to the US pay-TV broadcaster totalled $353 million for the third quarter 2019, compared to net income of $432 million from the year-ago quarter. The company […]