AVIA policy news

China has blocked access to the website of Australia's national broadcaster for breaching Beijing's internet rules and regulations, ABC said on Monday. It comes a year after the Australian Broadcasting Corporation began running a Chinese-language service. ABC said access to its website and apps was blocked on August 22 and it has since been trying to find out why.

After getting numerous delays, the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) revealed that the country's third telecommunications player may be identified as early as October this year.

Censorship of moving images – be it broadcast media or films or the emerging genre of streaming media on the internet – is a can of worms. The situation will not be resolved without a substantial reconfiguration of regulatory powers.

The broadcasting regulator is amending its must-carry rule for broadcast service to ease limitations on viewing sports tournaments via mobile.

The Cambodian Culture and Fine Arts Ministry is working towards making things easier for local and foreign production houses to film in Cambodia in a bid to boost the industry.

India’s Telecom Commission, the second highest decision-making body regarding telecom policies, yesterday late evening approved the National Digital Communication Policy 2018 and also net neutrality rules, which bar service providers from discriminating against internet content and services by blocking, throttling or granting them higher speed access.

In just 15 days' time, MEPs will again vote on the now-controversial copyright proposals of Article 13. The legislation would see platforms such as YouTube compelled to introduce upload filters, to prevent unlicensed content being offered to the public. The new 'Love Music' campaign, supported by powerful industry players, aims to ensure a thumbs-up from MEPs. But the opposition is out, in force.

The telecom regulator on Wednesday officially approved the regulatory draft for reframing unused or non-optimum-usage spectrum ranges to be auctioned for 5G wireless broadband.

City is in race with other developed economies to implement technology for speedier internet and more simultaneously connected devices

Minister of Information and Communications Truong Minh Tuan had shown a ‘lack of responsibility and poor leadership’ over Mobifone’s purchase of AVG television company

Netflix, iFlix, Hooq, Disney, and Fox, among others, announced that they had created a self-regulatory content code in June.

Democratic lawmakers say they've settled differences on net neutrality in California, advancing bills covering far-reaching net neutrality safeguards.

He may have started the #HumFitToh IndiaFit campaign that went viral on social media last month and had celebs and plebs posting images of their health routine.

India becomes a part of global copyright treaties - Prasad says that the decision is in line with the digital push of the government in an environment where it has become important for India to be part of international treaties on copyright in the digital era