Oliver Dowden, the UK Culture Secretary, has brokered agreements that will allow selected international sporting events and production on some of the biggest film and television productions to get underway safely this summer, in a major boost for the nation and its economy. A number of sports stars and their support teams, alongside international film […]
The Philippine’s National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) has banned SkyCable, the satellite DTH subsidiary of broadcaster ABS-CBN. SkyCable has about 1.5 million subscribers according to local reports. The NTC says that SkyCable’s licences have expired. However, ABS-CBN has also been ordered to ‘cease-and-desist’ its terrestrial broadcasts because on May 4th its transmission licence expired. SkyCable’s cable […]
After six years as CEO of Com Hem and Tele2, Anders Nilsson has decided to step down from his position to focus on other things in life. Kjell Morten Johnsen, previously COO of VEON and Head of Telenor Europe, will replace Nilsson as President and CEO of Tele2 as of September 15th. “With the integration […]
Officers from the Suffolk Constabulary in the East of England have arrested a man near Woodbridge in connection with suspected illegal streaming of premium television channels, and other copyrighted material. Officers from the Cyber and Serious Organised Crime team conducted a warrant at a property in the Hollesley area concerning the illegal streaming of premium […]
The British government is spending an initial $500 million (€444.9m),to take a reported 45 per cent stake in the consortium which includes Indian giant telco Bharti Global (paying a similar sum for a 45 per cent holding) to acquire bankrupt satellite constellation OneWeb Global Ltd. The UK has confirmed it will receive a “significant equity […]
A project from international defence and security think tank the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI) is to examine the structure and disruption of illicit finance flows from intellectual property (IP) in the UK. The Institute says that IP crime poses a security threat to the
Two recently initiated DVB work items reached important milestones at the most recent Steering Board meeting. The commercial requirements for native IP video delivery over broadcast satellite were approved; and work will proceed on the creation of commercial requirements for the use of DVB-I as a service layer on top of 5G technologies. The 95th […]
The Singapore High Court has granted an order sought by BBC Studios, Discovery, the Premier League, La Liga and broadcaster TVB for Singapore’s Internet Service Providers to block access to seventeen domains associated with popular piracy streaming sites and forty-one domains associated with popular illicit streaming device (ISD) applications. These apps, which flagrantly infringe copyright […]
Pakistan has come somewhat late to the satellite sector but the Prime Minister’s office says it is looking to raise some $700 million from its new ‘Paksat Programme’. Pakistan’s Strategic Plans Division (SPD) prepared a summary for the Prime Minister’s review in March 2019 to address the voids related to sustainability of the National Space […]
Seemingly the UK and India were the solitary joint bidder for OneWeb’s assets. The UK government, in a statement on July 3rd, said it would provide $500 million (€444.9m), as would Indian telco Bharti Global, in the bid for OneWeb’s assets. Business Secretary Alok Sharma said it would help deliver the “first UK sovereign space […]