August 6th 2004
By: Luke
It was interesting to note ITV�s share price falling below a quid yesterday. The joint company, the result of merger between Carlton and Granada, was based on the premise of realising synergies, delivering returns for investors and top-notch programmes for viewers. The company has lost a third of its value ...
August 6th 2004
By: Luke
Ofcom Website | UK spectrum management
Trading mechanisms, liberalisation of use, access and innovation
Ofcom will take the following steps in 2004-05 to provide a revised spectrum management framework with appropriate market mechanisms and incentives for efficient use and innovation:
1) August 2004
Statement on spectrum trading, published today. Spectrum trading will allow ...
August 5th 2004
By: Luke
Energis are the latest company to sign up to Ofcom's Telecoms Adjudicator Scheme.
Ofcom recently appointed Peter Black as telecoms adjudicator to decide disputes between telcos relating to local loop unbundling. The move effectively re-creates a Director-General structure in regard to overseeing the LLU process - difficult to assess how it ...
August 4th 2004
By: Luke
"An Ofcom spokesman declined to comment on the payoffs, saying that he did not represent the former Radio Authority. No spokesman for the Radio Authority now exists." The Times - 4th August, 2004
August 4th 2004
By: Luke
In its report today on Ofcom's costs The Times highlights the additional financial burden of Ofcom over and above the costs incurred by the five legacy regulators when they were operating independently. In representing citizen-consumers Ofcom takes its costs out of our pockets - i.e. regulatory costs are passed on ...
August 4th 2004
By: Luke
Ex-Radio Authority executives share �392,000 loyalty bonus
The facts and figures about the costs of establishing Ofcom keep on coming.
This time it's the Radio Authority. Retainers and pay-offs were not up there with Patricia Hodgson's �500,000 from the ITC but they're not bad for something of a niche player on the ...
August 3rd 2004
By: Luke
Ofcom today announced a review of the regulation of premium rate telephone services with a view to improving measures to protect consumers from fraudulent and unscrupulous activity. The review will include an examination of options to strengthen the powers of ICSTIS - the industry-funded regulatory body for all premium rate ...
August 2nd 2004
By: Luke
16 broadband providers have come together to sign up to a voluntary code of practice aimed at minimising the delays and disuruption for consumers who switch from one provider to another.
Customers can ask their existing ISP for a migration authority code which they then give to their new service provider. ...
August 2nd 2004
By: Luke
Ofcom today published its approach to licensing and regulating Community Radio.
Inviting applications
Applications for Community Radio licences will be invited once a year.
Ofcom will not specify where a radio service should be. Instead it will invite applicants to identify the community or communities they wish to serve.
The first opportunity to ...
