January 25th 2005
By: ChrisMarsden
OfCom's been doing a lot of international work and keeping quiet on much of it - which is understandable as it's background briefings, information sharing etc. But they have revealed the team involved in their joint working group with ComReg - the Irish equivalent who just released that joint dominance ...
January 24th 2005
By: ChrisH
A summary of my my forthcoming report can be found here.
All comments (etc) welcome. The aim of the research is to generate a discussion around 'media localisation' analagous to that currently being played out in the United States... to begin a debate, rather than to define its terms of reference.
Publications ...
January 24th 2005
By: monica
Today Ofcom has withdrawn its notifications to the European Commission in respect of the identification of markets for national managed transmission services; and for local, regional and metropolitan managed transmission services. It is also withdrawing its notification of the finding of significant market power in the market for national managed ...
January 24th 2005
By: Amit
The Irish telecommunications regulator, ComReg, has recently announced that the EU Commission endorsed its finding that Vodafone and O2 had Collective Dominance of the Irish mobile market. It is the first decision the EU Commission has taken on Collective Dominance in a European mobile market and may encourage other NRAs ...
January 24th 2005
By: ChrisMarsden
1. So Powell resigns having lost his battles with Kevin Martin - is Martin the Brutus and Kathleen Abernathy the Anthony? Certainly Martin pulled no punches in isolating Powell on the FCC - in a five-person Commission, usually the President's pick for Chair (Powell) gets his way, but fellow-Republican Martin ...
January 24th 2005
By: Russ
As Luke noted in his earlier post, Michael Powell is out. Everyone is saying that current FCC commissioner Kevin Martin is the favourite candidate for the job. I have no knowledge one way or the other, just what I read in the trade press. Martin's wife, Catherine, ...
January 24th 2005
By: Luke
Michael Powell, Chairman of the FCC, resigned on Friday.
FT Comments - "Under Mr Powell, the FCC applied light regulation to the cable industry as well as telephone companies. But his efforts to liberalise media ownership rules proved unsuccessful. The 41-year old son of Colin Powell, outgoing secretary of state, successfully ...
January 23rd 2005
By: Luke
The Sunday Times reports:
"The chief executive of BT Group has warned that 60% of British homes and businesses will be denied the benefits of the broadband revolution unless Ofcom, the industry regulator, changes its approach.
BT�s Ben Verwaayen said Ofcom�s method of encouraging more competition in high-speed internet services � ...
January 22nd 2005
By: Luke
Ofcom's 2005/06 Annual Plan states,
"...We are now committed to being an �RPI minus X� regulator and to achieving a five per cent saving during the 2004/05 financial year, with a further five per cent to be saved in 2005/06.
For 2005/06 Ofcom will cost �133m (excluding spend on SES - ...
January 21st 2005
By: monica
The inaugural lecture of the Competition and Communications Seminar Series at PCMLP last Wednesday featured Herbert Ungerer, head of DG Competition media branch. In an excellent presentation, Mr. Ungerer stressed the importance of new media services and open markets in Europe and mentioned France and Italy as success examples. ...
