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By Russ on February 07th, 2010
BT Home Hub Film Festival-Oscar Edition
I call this one Not Precious:
Ofcom
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Reboot Ofcom?
Ofcom may be converged, but the FCC is rebooted! Or is that roboted? Ofcom could start on -
Tory’s promise to ’sweep away’ local media ownership rules
Tory Shadow Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has told the Oxford Media Convention that a new -
Is Ofcom failing to articulate the citizen interest?
OW Guest Opinion: Ofcom’s duty to the general public, by David Mason My first contribution to - More from Ofcom
Media and New Media
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Jon Gaunt / Liberty / Ofcom issues…
A few thoughts on the Jon Gaunt situation: – From a 50,000 ft perspective, the big -
Ofcom’s Ed Richards on Pay TV investigation (Dec 09)
This is testimony before the CMS/BIS Committees back in December 2009, but it just appeared -
Ofcom ‘minded’ to allow BBC to encrypt HD output via the EPG
Ofcom is consulting on a request by the BBC to amend to its digital multiplex - More from Media and New Media
Mobile and Spectrum
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New paper on mobile termination, Ofcom approach
I just spotted an interesting new paper regarding mobile termination rates: Harbord, David and Pagnozzi, Marco, -
Ofcom consumer issues: ‘pretending everything’s great but still no cigar.’
We received this interesting comment earlier today. It is in reply to this post about -
Consumer Focus: UK mobile too consumer unfriendly…
We received the following update from Audrey Gallacher of Consumer Focus: Consumers love their mobiles but - More from Mobile and Spectrum
Telecoms and Broadband
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BT Home Hub Film Festival-Oscar Edition
I call this one Not Precious: -
Ofcom Watch book corner: Marsden on Net Neutrality
OfcomWatch friend Chris Marsden has just announced that you can download his recent book Net -
Eyebrook Reservoir 15Mbps – suck it you urbanites!
[not sure why they went with the creepy organ music???] From YouTube: ‘Thomas gets VDSL to - More from Telecoms and Broadband
Other Recent Articles
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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 [...] -
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 [...] -
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 [...] -
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, [...] -
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: -
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.
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– 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 [...] -
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.
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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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