Regulation News

Indonesia issues IPTV regulations
Aug 25, 2009 – Indonesia's Ministry of Communications and Information (Departemen Komunikasi dan Informatika) has issued a decree covering the regulation of Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) in the country.
News categories: Departemen Komunikasi dan Informatika, Indonesia, IPTV, Regulation

FCC approves more CA-integrated cable boxes
Aug 24, 2009 – Motorola (NYSE: MOT), Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), Pace (LSE:PIC) and Thomson (Paris: 18453; NYSE: TMS) have received approval from the FCC for a waiver of the ban on cable set-top boxes (STBs) with integrated conditional access.
News categories: FCC, Cable TV, Digital TV, Regulation, Set Top Box, USA

FreeHD Canada applies for DTH licence
Aug 18, 2009 – FreeHD Canada has applied to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) for a licence, and is seeking approval to launch its Direct-to-Home satellite service in early 2011.
News categories: CRTC, FreeHD Canada, Canada, Digital TV, Regulation, Satellite

Spanish Government approves pay DTT
Aug 13, 2009 – Spain's government has agreed to allow television channels to charge viewers for digital terrestrial programming.
News categories: Digital TV, Regulation, Spain, Terrestrial

India's DTH set-top boxes may have to be interoperable
Aug 11, 2009 – India's DTH operators could be asked to provide inter-operable set-top boxes with the Competition Commission of India (CCI) seeing prima facie merit in a complaint filed by a consumer organisation that it is in violation of competition laws.
News categories: Competition Commission of India, Digital TV, India, Regulation, Satellite, Set Top Box

BBC Trust publishes additional information on Project Canvas
Jul 24, 2009 – The BBC Trust, following the first period of public consultation, has asked the BBC Executive to provide more information on the proposals. The Trust has published the Executive's response and the timetable for the remainder of the process.
News categories: BBC Trust, Project Canvas, Digital TV, IPTV, Media Player, Middleware, Regulation, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Streaming, Terrestrial, UK

Japan consults on extra spectrum for mobile TV
Jul 15, 2009 – Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) has opened a consultation on whether to allocate additional spectrum to 1-seg mobile TV broadcasting after analogue switch off in 2011.
News categories: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan, Mobile, Regulation

India imposes 5% import duty on STBs
Jul 6, 2009 – In India's Budget for 2009-2010 a 5% import duty was announced for set-top boxes.
News categories: India, Regulation, Satellite, Set Top Box

Cablevision remote DVR stays legal
Jun 29, 2009 – Cablevision's (NYSE:CVC) 'remote storage DVR' moved a DVR's hardware out of the living room and back into the cloud, but TV studios claimed copyright infringement. The Supreme Court's refusal to hear the case means the RS-DVR remains legal, for now.
News categories: Cablevision, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Regulation, USA