The Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill in New Zealand has been passed, despite strong opposition. The law will come into effect on September 1st and repeals Section 92A of the Copyright Act. The legislation seeks to tackle illegal file sharing, with illegal sharers receiving warnings for their first two infringements. A third infringement will […]
KIT digital has partnered with LiveU, a specialist in video-over-cellular solutions, to provide KIT digital’s clients with HD-quality live video streaming capabilities from a battery-operated wireless backpack. The solution, KIT LivePro Unwired, uses wireless backpack technology provided by LiveU to allow content producers to take advantage of the existing and growing wireless 3G/4G and Wi-Fi […]
Fujitsu has revealed plans to build a £2 billion (€2.24bn) high-speed broadband network covering 5 million rural homes in Britain. The Japanese group wants to build and operate a superfast broadband internet network based on optical fibre, and has an agreement with TalkTalk and Virgin to use it. BT is currently constructing a £2.5 billion […]
Lyfe Communications, a technology expert in the development of next generation media services, has completed software development of a virtual Set Top Box (vSTB), and are creating a program to deploy that technology in trials with partner operators. Greg Smith, CEO of Lyfe Communications commented: “We have blended industry accepted conditional access security with standard […]
At the 2011 NAB Show, Sencore announced the launch of a new line of video-on-demand (VOD) servers and solutions for content delivery networks (CDNs), a direct result of the company’s new global sales and market development partnership with Broadpeak. Under the new agreement, Sencorewill be the exclusive North American representative of the Broadpeak product lines […]
The UK Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has decided not to prosecute BT and Phorm for secretly tracking the online habits of 18,000 Internet users. BT and Phorm sparked controversy in 2006 and 2007 when it emerged that the companies were covertly trialing software tracking users behaviour in order to deliver targeted advertising. BT ditched the […]
Mike Fries, Chief Executive of Liberty Global, has suggested the cable investor is not actively seeking to acquire Dutch cable operator Ziggo, despite earlier suggestions from the company’s Chief Strategy Officer Shane O’Neill that Liberty might consider pre-empting an IPO. Fries told The Denver Post that Ziggo seemed to be “squarely focused on an IPO, […]
In a further consolidation of the global telecoms and content delivery network markets, international provider of fibre-based communications services. Level 3 Communications, and global IP, Ethernet, data centre and video solutions provider Global Crossing have entered into a definitive agreement under which Level 3 will acquire Global Crossing in a tax-free, stock-for-stock transaction, estimated at […]
As anticipated, the US House of Representatives has voted to overturn the so-called ‘net neutrality’ rules designed to create an open Internet. A clash with the Senate and President Obama is now certain to follow. The House voted 240 to 179 in favour of a Republican-backed resolution that seeks to block the rules approved by […]
Market research firm Infonetics Research conducted a survey of incumbent and competitive telecom operators in North America, EMEA, and CALA who use residential gateways and CPE to offer broadband and multi-play services. “There is consistency among our survey findings from last year and this year: Service providers want to deploy residential gateways that are powerful […]