A new agency that charges “TV-like” internet services to have their content standards regulated has proved controversial in the industry. But ATVOD has been given wholehearted backing to continue its work. Read more »
Distributors are passing the buck and regulators are openly contradicting each other. UK VOD services may take heart as another regulator decision is overturned. But the rulings and counter-rulings leave liability for internet video in flux. Read more »
The UK’s controversial video-on-demand regulator, which has angered some web publishers by charging them to be regulated against their wishe… Read more »
UK ISPs will have to write warning letters to illegal downloaders identified by rightsholders, after the ongoing protests of two of the larg… Read more »
One of the biggest components in Nokia’s expensive campaign for its latest flagship handset broke UK media rules by mixing its sponsorships… Read more »
While some operators in some countries (like the U.S. and Japan) have already celebrated birthdays for their LTE services, 4G in the UK hasn… Read more »
Illegal downloading of copyrighted content is up to twice as prevalent as perpetrators admit, according to research that will inform how Ofc… Read more »
Some of the latest executive-level hirings and exits in the world of digital media business… Read more »
When you consider the internet, on-demand services, games consoles, mobiles, apps and [fill in your personal favorite here], we have more wa… Read more »
The European Commission says 2011 progress against its digital agenda ambitions has been “mixed”. Read more »
Mobile phone networks, get your houses in order. Here is how much mobile data consumption is expected to grow in the next four years… Read more »
We often see national and international breakdowns of newspaper website popularity, but rarely by continent. Read more »
More scrutiny of News Corporation’s UK tabloids by Ofcom… but this time with a good result for the media company. The UK communications re… Read more »
Italians are twice as likely to pay for digital content as consumers in some other major nations. Read more »
The UK internet population actually fell by one percent in the year to July, according to Nielsen data in Ofcom’s International Communicatio… Read more »
Apple’s and Android’s stronghold on the U.S. smartphone market has been the case for many quarters already, and figures out today from Niels… Read more »
Smartphone penetration is slowly approaching the tipping point where it will be more common to have a smartphone than a feature phone among… Read more »
Consumers are increasingly using Facebook for video – but, despite studios and broadcasters hosting more of their content on the social netw… Read more »
Several days into the Carrier IQ story — which raised privacy concerns around software that claims to be an innocent diagnostics tool — an… Read more »
Consumers in Europe may be feeling the smarting bite of the economic winter settling in around us, but when it comes to internet and mobile… Read more »
European countries must ensure they have auctioned their analogue TV spectrum for use by higher-speed mobile networks by January 1, 2013, ac… Read more »
Frustrating news for those in the UK who have eagerly been awaiting the first 4G services. The country, home to some of the most mobile-savv… Read more »
The UK is preparing to roll out a new, superfast mobile broadband service that would also more than double the amount of spectrum that is cu… Read more »
The government has published a tranche of documents relating to the deal that never was – News Corporation’s aborted £8bn bid to take ful… Read more »
Given that today’s big mobile news in the UK is that BlackBerry devices (and specifically the free messaging service BlackBerry Messenger) h… Read more »
Running to 341 pages, Ofcom’s Communications Market Report 2011 is an essential snapshot of data, charts and graphs about UK digital media c… Read more »
Pay-for content bought through carriers’ mobile portals should no longer be regulated by the UK premium-rate phone services regulator Phonep… Read more »
After an “Arab spring”, it’s been a summer of security breaches. But, while the press, politicians and police chiefs turn themselves inside-… Read more »
Up to now, the British pay-TV operator BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) has continued to endorse James Murdoch as its chairman — despite the abandoned bid… Read more »
Rather that postpone what was heading towards inevitability — and endure the increased scrutiny that comes with it, Rupert Murdoch is backi… Read more »
Another major setback for News Corp in the UK today: Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, is sending back the media giant’s bid for broadcast… Read more »
On the surface, News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) appears to remain hopeful that its intended acquisition of the 61 percent of UK TV provider BSkyB (NYS… Read more »
Following a consultation, ATVOD, which was appointed last year to regulate VOD along with Ofcom, has unveiled 2011/12 fees that are an avera… Read more »
Big news today in the world of mobile payments: the three largest operators in the UK have announced a joint venture to offer mobile wallet… Read more »
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: a scary cell phone warning from the World Health Organization; Tapjoy dishes the dirt on… Read more »
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: more details spill about Google’s not-so-secret mobile wallet launch today; worrying stat… Read more »
BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) has reported strong growth in the three months to the end of March, adding pressure on Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation (… Read more »
Umbrella groups for the newspaper and magazine industries are speaking out in opposition to the UK’s new VOD co-regulator ATVOD. Read more »
Twenty-two online services have broken the law by not consenting to be regulated by the UK’s new VOD co-regulator and by not paying tens of… Read more »
The UK communications regulator Ofcom is planning its largest-ever auction of mobile phone spectrum in 2012 with the aim of enabling high-sp… Read more »
