May 24th 2004
By: Luke
End Of The Land Line?
BBC Online reports on a report by Sound Partners into fixed-mobile substitution which concluded that mobile operators could take 50% of fixed voice calls and 63% of the cash we pay for them by 2009.
Do land lines face being cut off?
Of course, broadband users will ...
May 24th 2004
By: Luke
T-Mobile Deny 3 MMS Interoperability - Ofcom Appeal Likely
Mobile Today
An argument is brewing over T-Mobile�s reluctance to allow cross network picture messaging with 3 subscribers.
There has been mounting friction as incumbent operators have appeared to drag their heels in arranging MMS interoperability with the new network. 3 is keen that ...
May 21st 2004
By: Luke
States, Feds Headed for VoIP Clash
States, feds headed for VoIP clash - News - ZDNet
May 21st 2004
By: Luke
New York Looks To Regulate VoIP
Networking Pipeline | Trends | VoIP: More Regulation Hassles
Networking Pipeline writes:
"Here we go again. This time, it's New York state officials who have weighed in on VoIP (voice over Internet protocol), and they seem to think -- much as California originally did -- that VoIP ...
May 21st 2004
By: Luke
The Times' Tempus writes:
BT's Wider View of Broadband Should Secure Its Future
By Robert Cole
IT USED to be called the World Wide Wait, but broadband has made surfing the internet a pleasure. It costs a bit more than an old-fashioned dial-up connection but people clearly think it is worth paying ...
May 20th 2004
By: Luke
Government Look For Digital Date
News
netimperative writes:
Culture secretary Tessa Jowell yesterday sent out a letter to broadcasters so as to establish an 'appropriate' timetable in relation to the conversion process.
Ofcom has been piling pressure on the government with a report sent out by the watchdog last month ranking the switchover from ...
May 20th 2004
By: Luke
US Congress: Convergence Could Be End of Regulation
ITworld.com - Lawmakers: Convergence could be end of regulation
The latest session in the US Congress into the failures - and potential redrafting - of the 1996 Telecommunications Act has heard evidence that suggests that new legislation would be outmoded before the ink is ...
May 20th 2004
By: Luke
Hodgson: �500,000 ITC Payout
Times Online - Business
Ray Snoody in The Times writes:
"Patricia Hodgson, the last chief executive of the Independent Television Commission, was paid about �500,000 when the ITC was succeeded by Ofcom, the new communications regulator.
The sum paid, which is thought to include compensation for loss of office, will ...
May 20th 2004
By: Luke
Ministers Remain Open To BT Breakup
Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Ministers leave door open for telecom breakup
The Guardian writes:
The government has backed away from supporting a committee of MPs who believe BT should not be broken up. The government stance leaves the way clear for BT's rivals to ...
May 20th 2004
By: Luke
Ofcom and DTI Responses To Commons Committee Broadband Report Published
The House of Commons Trade and Industry Committee yesterday published responses from the Government and Ofcom to a report into the UK broadband market it published in February.
The responses confirmed that the Government's and Ofcom's determination to see greater competition in ...
