UK comms regulator Ofcom has outlined the challenges facing the UK in ensuring that consumers and businesses receive high-quality digital communications services over the next decade and beyond. Among the issues to be addressed are bundled media services offered over different platforms by the same operator which may present risks to competition. Ofcom’s Strategic Review […]
Commenting on Ofcom’s publication of its initial digital communications review findings investment bank Jefferies, and its telecoms analyst Jerry Dellis, warn investors that BT is now under scrutiny – along with the UK’s other media players. However, Ofcom is known to want to strengthen, not weaken, competition. Dellis points out one important element: “On page […]
Swedish telco Com Hem has reported its Q2 2015 numbers. Commenting on the results, Anders Nilsson, CEO at Com Hem, said: “Overall, the business has delivered a strong set of results during the second quarter of 2015. Revenue grew by 4 per cent compared to the corresponding quarter last year with underlying EBITDA growing by […]
Comcast has responded to the threat of cord-cutting by announcing the beta test of Stream, a new streaming cable service for its own Xfinity Internet customers that it says furthers the cable MSO’s goal of providing TV choices for everyone. In a Blog Post, Matt Strauss, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Video Services for […]
John Petter, CEO of BT’s Consumer Division has called on UK comms regulator Ofcom to broaden the scope of its Digital Communications Review (DCR) to include pay-TV, citing high prices and poor outcomes for consumers arising from a lack of competition in pay-TV. Speaking to the Broadcasting Press Guild, Petter compared the falling prices, rising […]
The European Commission is seeking the views of all interested parties on how to make Europe’s audiovisual media landscape fit for purpose in the digital age. In a public consultation, the Commission will get feedback on the current framework regulating Europe’s audiovisual media landscape (the so-called Audiovisual Media Services Directive – AVMSD), on issues such […]
In talks on the Telecoms Single Market legislation the European states, the EC and the European Parliament have reached agreement on net neutrality rules to treat all Internet traffic equally. The EC said the rules protect the right of every European to access internet content, without discrimination. The new rules enshrine the principle of net neutrality […]
Sky is calling on the UK comms industry regulator Ofcom to instigate a full market investigation to examine problems affecting consumers in the UK’s broadband marketplace. The company believes that issues covering both competition and quality of service are sufficient for Ofcom to ask the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to conduct an inquiry. The […]
Popular Spanish streaming site Rojadirecta has been ordered by a Madrid court to stop linking to certain football streams or have its site blocked by local ISPs. The site’s operators are refusing to budge without a fight and have already announced an appeal against the preliminary injunction. Rojadirecta is operated by the Spanish company Puerto […]
Brits can now switch broadband supplier with one phone call. The new rules came into force this week and mean anyone who wants to change broadband supplier now only has to notify the company they wish to move to. That supplier should then handle every aspect of the change. The changed regime may not actually […]