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Police coordinate Euro pirate raids
Police have conducted a series of raids across Europe
in the biggest crackdown yet on file-sharing. Forty-eight
sites were targeted in countries including the Netherlands,
Czech Republic and Hungary.
In Sweden, seven premises were raided including PRQ, which
is believed to host Pirate Bay and the revelatory website
WikiLeaks. Co-ordinated by Belgian police, the operation
was the culmination of a two-year investigation............more
Digital
Plus subscriber slide
From David Del Valle in Madrid
Sogecable-owned Digital Plus, continues losing subscribers
with a drop of 24,523 in only two months ending August
2010. It now has 1,760,320 subscribers with an ARPU
of E41.7. The company, which reported an EBITDA of E189
million, claims to have reduced its churn rate "for
the fifth consecutive month."
Over the last months, Digital Plus has been reaching
agreements with Jazztel, Telecable and Orange to distribute
its content through different platforms in an attempt
to find new revenue sources................more
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French
back-off pay-TV VAT
The French government has dropped its proposal to raise
the rate of VAT on pay-TV operator Canal Plus from 5.5
per cent to 19.6 per cent.
President Nicolas Sarkozy dropped the plan, which could
have forced Canal Plus to raise its subscription charges
significantly, after lobbying from the French cinema
industry which fears a loss of vital revenue if C+ loses
subscribers...........................................more
iPhone
will control Google TV
Among further details confirmed about Google TV is
the news that it will be integrating mobile phone control
for forthcoming, and not just using Android phones.
Britney Bohnet, product marketing manager for Google
said: "You'll be able to use your Android phone
or iPhone as remote control and will be able to control
[Google TV] using just your voice.........................................more
INSIDE SATELLITE
Israel’s
SpaceCom faces orbital slot problem
By Chris Forrester
Israel’s satellite operator Spacecom has rights
to an important DTH broadcasting orbital slot over Europe
and Africa at 17 degrees East. However, a major problem
with a temporary satellite placed into the position
could mean the loss of the position.
The problem started when Spacecom bought a second-hand
satellite from AsiaSat (AsiaSat-2) last year as a temporary
‘gap-filler’, for $45 million, and moved it
to the 17 deg East slot. On August 9th Spacecom told
the Tel Aviv stock exchange that there was a problem
with AsiaSat-2 and that it had far less fuel on board
than was originally thought. AsiaSat-2 had operated
for some 13 years since launch..............................................more
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OIPF
publishes release 2 IPTV specs
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IPNet
launches IPTV
Hair
for ESPN EMEA
Microsoft
appoints Samsung ad man
Trivial
Pursuit YouTube edition
Arris
TG852G awarded DOCSIS 3.0 certification
Harmonic
for TopTV Africa
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