December 10th 2004
By: Luke
Ofcom today announced that David Edmonds will leave the Ofcom Board early in the New Year.
Mr Edmonds is one of six Non-Executive Members of the Ofcom Board. He was previously the Director General of Telecommunications at Oftel (one of the five previous regulators whose duties were assumed by Ofcom on ...
December 9th 2004
By: Luke
Q: What sort of dialogue involves 'a lot of conversation' but 'no room for manoeuvre'?
A: The one Ofcom is having with BT according to an interview with Stephen Carter and David Currie in yesterday's Independent.
Surely this doesn't really make any sense. Indeed, it appears that when journalists pop over to ...
December 9th 2004
By: Luke
(Reuters) - Telecoms regulator Ofcom has unveiled plans to protect consumers from unwittingly racking up huge telephone bills by using premium rate numbers.
Premium rate calls, which usually start with prefix 09, cost up to 150 pence a minute on the network of dominant telecoms firm BT Group and are typically ...
December 7th 2004
By: Russ
The Satellite & Cable Broadcasters' Group (SCBG) put its response to Ofcom's Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) Phase 2 report on its website recently. There was also a companion piece in the FT today...
The SCBG's response is worth a read. Basically, the SCBG holds Ofcom's feet to the ...
December 7th 2004
By: Luke
COST SAVINGS
Aiming to save �320m a year over three years, to clear the BBC's overdraft by 2007.
Cut 47% of professional services staff - such as finance, human resources, communications, policy and strategy staff - over the next three years. Less than half of those cuts would be redundancies. ...
December 7th 2004
By: Luke
Today's FT Creative Business diary reports -
"Where's there brass, there's muck. When Ofcom implied its PSP idea might attract �300m of public funding, Diary knew there would be interest and controversy.
And more than 200 people attended the purely theoretical 'pitch' for the PSP at the Institute of Physics ...
December 6th 2004
By: ChrisMarsden
For accuracy, PPCs was issued 23rd December - evil as the Friday was 20th - and the Leased Line markets review document issued on Thursday 18th. They both made New Year business more sobering than ever!
December 6th 2004
By: ChrisMarsden
Regular readers know that it took the motivation of 2 Yanks to get us Brits blogging our own regulator. As we approach the holiday season - happy hanukkah - it's time for a warning to us all - beware the ideas of Christmas!
Oftel had a tradition that OfCom's first moment ...
December 6th 2004
By: Luke
For those asking how much all this regulation will cost them next year, Ofcom has today published its fee proposals and the underlying rationale, setting out a draft Statement of Charging Principles to be applied from the charging year 2005/6 onwards.
In these proposals, Ofcom has addressed five generic issues:
The appropriate ...
December 6th 2004
By: Russ
Macworld is reporting that Ofcom believe that iTrip and similar FM-adaptors for the highly popular Apple iPods are illegal under U.K. laws pertaining to pirate radio stations.
I'm posting this, not for the obvious reason (Why isn't Ofcom permitting iTrips?), but because of what we often see in these types of ...
