Virgin Media has begun its High Court case against BSkyB. In papers submitted to the Court, Virgin has accuses the pay-TV platform of abusing a dominant position. The two companies have been involved in heated exchanges since February, when the former NTL-Telewest took the Virgin name, though the dispute over the carriage of Sky’s basic [...]

SES New Skies has written to its customers, calling on them to challenge proposals to have the so-called C-band reassigned to terrestrial mobile services. In a letter signed by both SES New Skies President and CEO Robert Bednarek and SES President and CEO Romain Bausch, the company calls on its customers to lobby their national [...]

Finland’s new communications minister has told the Finnish press that the current television licence fee should be replaced. Suvi Lindén told Sunnuntaisuomalainen that the public broadcaster YLE should be funded either through regular taxes or by a special supplement that would be paid for by all tax payers. She said the licence fee could no [...]

Ofcom’s Content Sanctions Committee has fined Life TV £125,000 for a series of breaches of its Broadcasting Code covering editorial independence and product placement. The offending programme, Britain’s Best Breaks, has been on air since 2003 and has already been the subject of a number of sanctions by the regulator. During the course of the [...]

CACC 2007, PRAGUE – The greatest obstacle to the introduction of mobile TV services in the Czech Republic is regulatory, according to Richard Stonavsky, the head of regulatory affairs at T-Mobile, Czech Republic. Stonavsky was speaking at the 8th Czech Broadband Communications (CACC) conference being held this week in Prague and also revealed the findings [...]