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’t even been born yet. But now at least it looks like we might have a due date. UK regulator Ofcom today set out new proposals for…

Illegal downloading of copyrighted content is up to twice as prevalent as perpetrators admit, according to research that will inform how Ofcom measures UK online piracy.

Some of the latest executive-level hirings and exits in the world of digital media business…

When you consider the internet, on-demand services, games consoles, mobiles, apps and [fill in your personal favorite here], we have more ways than ever before to watch TV content whenever and however we want. But despite the growth of services like Hulu, YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) and Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), it…

The European Commission says 2011 progress against its digital agenda ambitions has been “mixed”.

Mobile phone networks, get your houses in order. Here is how much mobile data consumption is expected to grow in the next four years…

We often see national and international breakdowns of newspaper website popularity, but rarely by continent.

More scrutiny of News Corporation’s UK tabloids by Ofcom… but this time with a good result for the media company. The UK communications regulator has ruled in favor of The Sun newspaper and determined that video on the news site should not be regulated as video-on-demand. The decision is wide-ranging…

Italians are twice as likely to pay for digital content as consumers in some other major nations.

The UK internet population actually fell by one percent in the year to July, according to Nielsen data in Ofcom’s International Communication Market Report 2011.

Smartphone penetration is slowly approaching the tipping point where it will be more common to have a smartphone than a feature phone among the general population. Ofcom says the UK and Japan are among the countries leading the way to that milestone as consumers turn away from PC usage—a trend…

Consumers are increasingly using Facebook for video - but, despite studios and broadcasters hosting more of their content on the social network, it remains mostly a gateway to video hosted elsewhere.

Several days into the Carrier IQ story—which raised privacy concerns around software that claims to be an innocent diagnostics tool—and some handset makers and at least a few carriers are scrambling to clear their names of any CarrierIQ association, although the discussion is unlikely to end here.

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 usage, there is some small relief coming: a series of legal actions point to host of new rights for private individuals. UK regulator Ofcom has…

European countries must ensure they have auctioned their analogue TV spectrum for use by higher-speed mobile networks by January 1, 2013, according to a new agreement.

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-savvy consumers in the world, is now facing a delay well into 2012 before its national operators can even begin to consider how they would deploy…

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 currently available for mobile broadband. Regulator Ofcom today announced plans to go ahead with “white spaces” broadband services, which run on unused spectrum originally allocated…

The government has published a tranche of documents relating to the deal that never was – News Corporation’s aborted £8bn bid to take full control of BSkyB.

Given that today’s big mobile news in the UK is that BlackBerry devices (and specifically the free messaging service BlackBerry Messenger) had a big role to play in the riots that took place around London this weekend, the following comes as just one more reminder of how big smartphones are…