UK broadband market growth continues to slow, with net additions more than halving year-on-year to 284,300 and annualised market growth in single figures
UK net neutrality rules are still discouraging telcos from launching enhanced connectivity services, which could benefit consumers and businesses, and support network investment.
Content providers are best protected by focusing on core measures that prevent throttling/blocking, rather than discouraging services that they themselves could also benefit from.
Legislative change could deliver the freedom that telcos want with the protections that content providers need, all while maintaining UK/EU treaty obligations to the Open Internet.
TikTok's social advertising land grab is putting a squeeze on Meta it can ill afford, as it blocks ads that link to TikTok in the US and other large markets.
TikTok and Meta share a desire to prevent marketing value leaking to creators, an area where TikTok has a lead on Meta through its network and creator tools.
Meta is planning for a billion users of Muse in a new tilt at shopping, as TikTok and Amazon freeze Meta's agents out of their own retail platforms.
By streaming Channel 4 programming 'day-and-date', Disney+ gets the regular benefit of punchy new content that will help hand the platform greater urgency around usage.
For Channel 4 the upside is obvious: an extension of reach for its programming and the ability to earn incremental revenues.
Risks for the parties, in particular cannibalisation of Channel 4's streaming business and Disney+'s originals, are mitigated by each side's size and market position.