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Following the latest contracts agreed with broadcasters ARD/ZDF, CNN, ProSiebenSat1 and RTL concerning their inclusion in the IPTV service T-Home, more than 100 channels are now available via Deutsche Telekom's VDSL high-speed network. The regional channels operated by the public service broadcasters will also be fed into the VDSL network, which enables Deutsche Telekom to offer "triple play", ie bundled Internet, telephone and television services. Telekom has invested more than EUR 3 billion in the new network, which will be available in 50 cities by the middle of next year. Viewers do not have...

In the continuing debate over the level of the broadcasting fee to be introduced for Internet PCs on 1 January 2007, the ARD directors decided at their general meeting in Schwerin to propose that owners of an Internet PC or a UMTS mobile telephone be charged a monthly fee of EUR 5.52 from 1 January 2007. Private households which already pay a TV or radio licence fee are exempt from the new regulation. The amount to be charged is based on the sum paid by owners of devices capable of receiving radio transmissions, known as the “ Grundgebühr ”. The ARD directors wish to take account of the fact that...

On 31 July 2006, the Bundesnetzagentur (Federal Network Agency - BNetzA) notified the European Commission of its proposed market definition and analysis for the field of broadcasting transmission services (market no. 18 in the Commission Recommendation), pursuant to Art. 7.3 of the Framework Directive (2002/21/EC). In Recommendation 2003/311/EC on relevant product and service markets within the electronic communications sector susceptible to ex ante regulation, the European Commission had recommended that national regulatory authorities analyse the definition of various markets, including a relevant...

In a ruling of 4 August 2006, the Landgericht Leipzig (Leipzig District Court - LG ) confirmed its decision to grant an application by Sat.1 Satellitenfernsehen GmbH for a temporary injunction against the Internet service "onlinetvrecorder.com", which functions as a virtual video recorder. On 27 March 2006, the LG had granted the temporary injunction, under which the domain operator had been prohibited, inter alia , from storing, making available to third parties, transmitting via so-called online streaming or uploads (ie via the Internet) and/or copying or making available for copying the TV programmes...

In a ruling of 22 August 2006, the Oberlandesgericht Hamburg (Hamburg Appeal Court - OLG) decided that an Internet forum operator must monitor its forum for illegal content if it has been alerted to infringements that have already taken place in the forum. The dispute concerned a case in which a user had posted on the online forum of the Heise magazine publishing company an appeal for people to block the servers of an Internet service provider. The Landgericht Hamburg (Hamburg District Court - LG) had decided in the first instance that Heise was liable for this content, even if it had been unaware...