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    BT Home Hub Film Festival-Oscar Edition

    BT Home Hub Film Festival-Oscar Edition

    I call this one Not Precious:

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    New paper on mobile termination, Ofcom approach

    New paper on mobile termination, Ofcom approach

    I just spotted an interesting new paper regarding mobile termination rates:
    Harbord, David and Pagnozzi, Marco, Network-Based Price Discrimination and ‘Bill-and-Keep’ vs. ‘Cost-Based’ Regulation of Mobile Termination Rates (January 22, 2010).  Review of Network Economics, March 2010.
    Available here:  Mobile Termination Rates
    Here are two of the money quotes:
    A number of arguments against reducing MTRs below marginal cost, [...]

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    Ofcom Watch book corner: Marsden on Net Neutrality

    Ofcom Watch book corner: Marsden on Net Neutrality

    OfcomWatch friend Chris Marsden has just announced that you can download his recent book Net Neutrality.  If you read his blog you will see that Chris follows this area like no one else.  It’s on my beach reading list for later in the month.
    Click here to download the 320-page pdf file.  The book is a [...]

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    Jon Gaunt / Liberty / Ofcom issues…

    Jon Gaunt / Liberty / Ofcom issues…

    A few thoughts on the Jon Gaunt situation:
    – From a 50,000 ft perspective, the big issue here is whether TV and radio are special social institutions.  The Communications Act 2003 and Ofcom (acting as the government’s agent) think they are.  I do not.  Gaunt could have called someone an ignorant pig in almost any other [...]

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    New paper on Ofcom’s pay TV review…

    Personally, I think Ofcom’s pay TV review is not going to create meaningful benefits for consumers.  (Some of my previous posts:  Oct 2008; March 2009; Oct 2009)
    But this recent paper appears to reach the opposite conclusion.  I could only locate the abstract online.  It looks like an interesting paper.
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    Fair Access to Exclusive Sports Rights Still [...]

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    DCMS names local news pilot scheme selection panel

    The UK government is moving ahead with the pilot scheme to publicly-fund local news.  The DCMS just announced the selection panel.  Here is the DCMS press release:
    Appointment of the selection panel for the Independently Funded News Consortia pilots
    The Minister for the Creative Industries, Sio?n Simon, has appointed Richard Hooper as chair of the Selection Panel [...]

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    Cybersieves: Evaluating censorship and filtering

    Cybersieves: Evaluating censorship and filtering

    Cybersieves, Derek Bambauer.  Duke Law Journal, Vol 59, No 3, Page 377 (Dec 2009):
    This Article proposes …  a process-oriented framework to evaluate the legitimacy of Internet filtering. The approach draws upon scholarship in deliberative democracy, health care decision making, labor and environmental law, and cyberlaw. To assess legitimacy, the Framework asks four questions. First, is [...]

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    T-Regs.com provides update on new EC directives

    T-Regs.com provides update on new EC directives

    OW friend Yves Blondeel recently sent us this update on what’s happening in Brussels.  For more (or to ask questions) visit: www.t-regs.com.
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    The Official Journal of the European Union contains the two EC Directives amending the regulatory framework for electronic communications, and the EC Regulation establishing BEREC.
    The BEREC Regulation enters into force on 7 January 2010, [...]

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    OW Friday Film Festival (broadband ed.)

    OW Friday Film Festival (broadband ed.)

    I call this one When Elin Caught Tiger Online:
    Folks, keep filming yourself destroying broadband / WIFI routers!  I’m waiting for one where Santa Claus is involved.
    And here’s one many of us can identify with:
    Slow internet kills your mojo:
    Finally, this one is disturbing:

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    New Ofcom Broadcasting Code

    New Ofcom Broadcasting Code

    Hot off the presses!
    Everyone on my Christmas Festivus list will surely love the autographed copy of the revised Ofcom Broadcasting Code I send them.
    After six years of protecting the viewing and listening public from harm and offence* Ofcom’s broadcast regulation is going from strength to strength.
    *Except when they:
    – play a video game;
    – use the internet;
    – [...]

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    New pressure for Ofcom to adjust top salaries

    Earning around 400,000 per year from Ofcom, it cannot be a comfortable week for Ed Richards.
    From Gordon Brown’s speech:
    It cannot be right that taxpayers fund 300 local authority officials who have salaries over £150,000, or that in total over 300 staff across public sector bodies are paid more than £200,000.
    And when Britain is emerging from [...]

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    BT pension deficit: what should Ofcom do?

    It’s probably a central tenet of regulatory theory:  The more symbolic and pointless a regulatory activity is, the more interested the public seem to be.  In the media and communications sector, this means that broadcast content adjudications by Ofcom are the talk of the town.  But more meaningful regulatory actions by Ofcom, such as the [...]

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    Is Ofcom lean?

    From ‘letters’, the Daily Telegraph, 21 Nov:
    SIR – You say (Leading article, November 20) that Ofcom is “vastly overstaffed”.
    Ofcom was formed by merging five bodies into a single, leaner organisation. It now employs more than 300 fewer people than the combined headcount of the previous regulatory bodies, despite having substantially more duties than our predecessors.
    In [...]

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    Academic slams Harvard/FCC open internet study

    Today is the deadline for submitting comments on the FCC’s study (prepared by the Harvard Berkman Center under the leadership of Yochai Benkler) as it relates to the National Broadband Plan.  So, yeah, only nerds are interested, but late last week an economist (George S. Ford) came out with a scathing attack on Benkler’s work.  [...]

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