Mr. Procedure Says…
Mr. Procedure Says...
... Annex 2: Consultation response cover sheet - a good thing. I expect we'll see that, with each consultation, Ofcom will become more organized and more transparent (where appropriate).
My New Virtual Office
My New Virtual Office
In my preparations for the transition out of being a student and back into the professional world (in Colorado), I�ve decided to go �all virtual.� I have used a virtual fax/voice mail number through a company called j2 for years with great success. Now I ...
Some 5.8GHz Networks Don’t Comply
Some 5.8GHz Networks Don't Comply
Apparently, the UK is awash with 5.8GHz networks that don't comply with Ofcom regulations.
Companies and organisations (mainly schools) across Britain are breaking the law by running high-speed wireless networks that don't comply with the safeguards introduced by Ofcom when the band was opened up, according to ...
Should There Be A Switch-Over At All?
Should There Be A Switch-Over At All?
Nicholas Negroponte famously observed that the generation that grew up watching television received via airwaves and telephones via wire would see their children do just the opposite. George Gilder has called this the �Negroponte Switch,� as have many other in the press and ...
The Times Has Yet Another Pop…
The Times Has Yet Another Pop...
Andrew Pierce in The Times has really got it in for Ofcom. Today he writes...
"A FASCINATING press release this week, headlined "Consumer Panel welcomes Ofcom's digital switchover report". It read: "The Ofcom Consumer Panel -the independent body set up to advise Ofcom on consumer interests ...
The Digital Switch-Over: Ofcom should be more aggressive
The Digital Switch-Over: Ofcom should be more aggressive
Jan's post of earlier today got me thinking. Sweden switched from driving vehicles on the left-hand side of the road to driving vehicles on the right-hand side of the road at one precise moment: 5 am on September 3, 1967 ...
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Ofcom to Start New Venture in Digital Television...
...just kidding! However, today's FT (National News, p. 4) reports that Ofcom's report on digital switch-over warns government that financial incentives might be required to ensure that the target of analogue switch-off in 2010 would be achieved. There appears to be the idea ...
Consultation Fatigue
Consultation Fatigue
Yesterday's Media Guardian reports industry finds it difficult to keep up with Ofcom's appetite for consultations. Stephen Carter was first to apologize that his team had underestimated the problems that come along when merging five regulators and starting up a new organisation.
A new generation of TV-mutants…
A new generation of TV-mutants...
For some reason, I do not believe this study, which claims that children who watch more TV are more likely to have attention problems later in childhood. Of course, the study is being reportedly uncritically by the broadsheets: The Telegraph says:Children under two should ...
Stuart Weinstein on Ofcom…
Stuart Weinstein on Ofcom...
Amit Rainhartz, super-lawyer at Preiskel, alerted me to Stuart Weinstein's recent article in the International Journal of Communications Law and Policy on Ofcom, entitled, Ofcom, Information-Convergence and the Never-Ending Drizzle of Electric Rain, available here.
I skimmed the article this afternoon. It's pretty good; Weinstein makes some ...
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August 19th 2008
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Did Ofcom finalise the PSB Review before comments were even submitted?
OW received an interesting letter today from United for Local Television (ULTV). It is a complaint letter to David Currie of Ofcom. The substance of the complaint is this:
'According to the public minutes of the 124th meeting of the Ofcom Board, held in Belfast on 20 May 2008:
“The ...
August 18th 2008
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Ofcom reveal: junk food advertisers evading ’spirit’ of HFSS regulations
Someone recently sent me an Ofcom document called a stakeholder briefing from a few weeks ago. It's about Ofcom's ongoing review of its junk food advertising restrictions. Get in touch if you want a copy.
First, as a friend once said, 'stakeholders' means something less than the public. ...
August 18th 2008
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OfcomWatch — the readers speak on new Ofcom chair
There is also a new poll up ------>
August 18th 2008
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Guardian’s Owen Gibson: Support for BBC licence fee eroding
Full story here. Gibson writes in part:
'The BBC is facing an uphill battle to maintain support for the licence fee, according to a new survey that shows almost half the population do not find it value for money.
A new Ipsos Mori poll for MediaGuardian also shows that the further ...
August 17th 2008
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Ofcom, media / telecoms policy autumn calendar
It's going to be a soul-destroying autumn for me as I (hopefully) finish my PhD thesis on Ofcom. My thesis will probably be like Ofcom's Communications Market Report: heavy, chart-laden and confusing!
Meanwhile, though, Charlie Beckett at LSE-POLIS has lined-up a staggering amount of events. He writes:
Polis is ...
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