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 decision.
The working group is mainly concerned with mobile roaming, illegal radio stations, that kind of thing. The list of non-Northern Irish OfCom contributors is truly impressive (at p19):
Vince Affleck Head of International Telecoms Policy
Neil Buckley Head of Consumer Policy
Lucy Byers Legal Adviser
Stephen Carter Chief Executive
Gareth Davies Competition Policy Director
Lisa Etwell Research Projects Manager
Nicholas Good Numbering Manager
Martin Hill Investigations Team Advisor
Richard Howard Research Projects Analyst
Brian Last Head of Mobile and Broadband
Cliff Mason Head of Mobile and Broadband Policy Team
Ray McConnell Senior Spectrum Engineer
Jim Niblett Competition Policy Director
Helen Normoyle Director of Market Research
Matt Peacock Communications Director
Margaret Rhodes Policy Adviser
Philip Rutnam Partner, Competition and Strategic Resources
Ron Stanley Strategic Projects Manager
Caroline Wallace Competition Director
What a committee! The ComReg people were less mob-handed…8 and two halves (the head of ComReg changed in the period) as opposed to 23…maybe they were busier on joint dominance cases. That said, the Irish record on LLU is even more lamentable than the UK’s…ComReg is an equally shiny new regulator born out of failure of its predecessor…