April 13th 2004
By: Russ
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).
April 13th 2004
By: Patrick
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 ...
April 8th 2004
By: Luke
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 ...
April 7th 2004
By: Patrick
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 ...
April 7th 2004
By: Luke
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 ...
April 6th 2004
By: Russ
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 ...
April 6th 2004
By: Jan
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 ...
April 6th 2004
By: Jan
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.
April 6th 2004
By: Russ
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 ...
April 5th 2004
By: Russ
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 ...