Posts Tagged ‘BSkyB’


Section 3.3 – Investment in Content: Original UK Content

The migration to the new digital world vastly increases the amount of content and applications at our disposal. Digital technology extends choice: wholly-market based operators such as BSkyB offer innovative distribution platforms, aggregating hundreds of digital channels, including their own content across programme areas such as 24-hour news and the Arts that were previously considered [...]

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Section 2.3 – Digital Broadcasting Networks: Television

The UK needs to continue to upgrade our Broadcasting Networks. The digital television switchover programme in the UK is already underway and will be completed in 2012. It provides a number of transferable lessons: firstly the importance of a strategic direction from Government and regulator, setting clear timetables, planning the radio spectrum and ensuring that [...]

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Section 2 – Digital Networks

Britain’s current network assets are the result of a series of legacy decisions: * the public asset transfer of the switched fixed network when BT was privatised * the exclusive geographical franchises of the 1990s for cable investment * 2G mobile licences issued without charge; auctioned 3G mobile licences; but in both cases, a commercial [...]

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