December 21st 2004
By: ChrisMarsden
For those who want to check on the progress of the UN Secretary General's Working Group, which reports to the World Summit in Tunis next autumn, here's their website and work programme.
Note that spam recurrs like ... well, err ... spam. But it's such a fundamental challenge to a global, ...
December 21st 2004
By: ChrisMarsden
So following my Happy Hannukah posting on 6th December, OfCom releases its LLU charges and the second of the Christmas gifts is given. That should also deliver the first, more broadband penetration...eventually.
And 3G - well, new licences - the third gift - this one for BT.
Before we start talking about ...
December 17th 2004
By: Russ
The PSB Phase 2 comments are posted on Ofcom's website. They are here.
Admittedly, I'm no expert on how regulators should make information available to the public, but Ofcom often does a poor job on responses to consultations. I think the problem is not Ofcom's intentions, but the system ...
December 17th 2004
By: Luke
The Times reports
"THE phone company 3 is planning legal action against the Government to recover some of the �1 billion it was forced to spend on the launch of its next generation mobile network.
It is the only phone operator to have reached the stringent market penetration targets set by ...
December 16th 2004
By: Luke
The House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport committee published its report on the BBC today - A Public BBC. The committee has been gathering evidence over the past few months.
This report will feed into the DCMS' BBC Charter Review process, and its recommendations will help to shape the ...
December 16th 2004
By: monica
Today on The Independent, Gavyn Davies discusses the �rights and wrongs� of consensus over the BBC�s Charter renewal. He agrees with the �strong belief, typified in recent Ofcom reports, that the future role of commercial broadcasters in providing public service broadcasting (PSB) in the UK will be a shrinking one� ...
December 16th 2004
By: Luke
The FCC has voted to allow wireless internet access on airplanes.
"We are pushing the frontiers in order to bring the information age to all corners of the world,' said Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell on Wednesday after a unanimous vote approving the new technology for U.S. airlines. 'We want ...
December 16th 2004
By: Luke
Ofcom today announced final connection and rental charges for Local Loop Unbundling (LLU) services. The charge reductions follow previous consultations on 13 May 2004 and 26 August 2004 and will come into effect from 1 January 2005.
Ofcom has now completed its Review of the Wholesale Local Access market which started ...
December 15th 2004
By: Amit
As part of an initiative by the European Regulators Group (ERG), the telecoms National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) of the EU member states have recently sent questionnaires on International Roaming to the Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) in their respective jurisdictions. The ERG is the independent body set up by the EU ...
December 15th 2004
By: Luke
The House of Commons held a Westminster Hall debate yesterday on the future of regional broadcasting. There was heavy criticism of Ofcom and its proposals for regional non-news coverage.
There was also a good section on the lack of information provided by the minutes of Ofcom board meetings - something ...
