August 30th 2004
By: Luke
Background
Readers out there who have been paying attention will know that Ofcomwatch have been asking Ofcom to publish the responses it receives to its consultations when they are received. Initially, we wrote to the regulator last November to suggest that doing this would make it easier for individuals and organisations ...
August 27th 2004
By: Nick
Price rise of up to 32 per cent could be passed on to customers and stunt growth of small and medium sized ISPs The Internet Services Providers� Association (ISPA UK) is highlighting significant fears for its smaller members and broadband Britain following price rises introduced by BT to their IPStream ...
August 26th 2004
By: Luke
Ofcom today published its final proposals for wholesale price reductions for Local Loop Unbundling (LLU) services. Subject to consultation, the price reduction will come into effect in December. This will be the final stage of a process begun in May this year when Ofcom outlined its proposals to increase effective ...
August 25th 2004
By: Luke
silicon.com reports:
The UK Internet Federation (UKIF) - which represents UK ISPs - has registered its objections to BT's price hikes with Ofcom but still fears the regulator is going to rubberstamp the changes this Thursday.
BT recently announced that it would be raising the prices of its wholesale broadband by as ...
August 24th 2004
By: Russ
Apologies for the untimely post on this topic. I finally got around to reviewing Ofcom's 'Statement on Spectrum Trading' and here are my initial thoughts:
* Section 1.6 - The statement that this 'represents a new approach to spectrum management' is only true for those who have ignored academic, ...
August 18th 2004
By: Luke
ISPs to meet Ofcom over BT broadband price hikes
ZD Net reports:
BT's shock decision to raise some business broadband prices has provoked growing concerns amongst ISPs, who will meet with Ofcom this Friday to discuss the issue.
The UK's Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) is wading into the row over BT's decision ...
August 11th 2004
By: Luke
Due to some prodding by the Consumer Panel, Ofcom has decided to have a rethink about how (or rather when) it publishes the responses it receives to consultations.
As it stands when Ofcom receives responses to a consultation the regulator only publishes them alongside its own decision.
Those of you who are ...
August 11th 2004
By: Luke
The Times reports:
Telegraph Sale
"THE Barclay brothers are not expected to face a �public interest� regulatory test over their takeover of The Daily Telegraph, according to officials who would be responsible for leading such an inquiry.
Senior executives of Ofcom [Stephen Carter], the communication regulator, claim in private that they do not ...
August 8th 2004
By: Russ
'Useful and powerful' ... OfcomWatch should trademark that as our new slogan. Much better than 'fair and balanced'.
To Luke's point about OfcomWatch's direction over the next six months, I can only agree... As Ofcom sprints (trudges? stumbles? glides?) across the finish line of its first year as the ...
August 8th 2004
By: Luke
Here's what the Account Planning Group recently said about Ofcomwatch:
"On the face of it, you'd think that ofcomwatch would be quite boring. They describe their mission like this: Ofcomwatch is an informal group blog commenting on the processes and practices of the Office of Communications (Ofcom) and related media and ...
