March 31st 2005
By: EuroTelcoBlog
I maintain a keen interest in developments in the Norwegian market, not only because it is a lovely country full of nice people, but also because it looks to me like a laboratory for future developments elsewhere. It is the only market in Europe (so far) where the regulator has ...
March 31st 2005
By: monica
In a recommendation sent yesterday to national telecommunications regulators the European Commission suggested the introduction of price ceilings on broadband internet access for business users (wholesale leased lines).
The Commission does not like the fact that �for a 2 Mbit/s line, 5 km long, the price in the most expensive Member ...
March 31st 2005
By: Luke
Ofcom today published its Tariff Tables setting out by sector the regulatory fees due across telecommunications, broadcasting and radiospectrum for the financial year to 31 March 2006. No doubt the industry will be taking a close look at the figures. And consumers should also take a close look since the ...
March 30th 2005
By: Luke
LONDON (Reuters) - Nearly six out of 10 households were receiving digital television at the end of 2004, as satellite TV provider BSkyB lost share of multichannel homes to Freeview but gained against its pay-TV cable rivals.
The latest quarterly data from media regulator Ofcom, released on Wednesday, revealed that 14.8 ...
March 30th 2005
By: PeggyV
On March, 17, the Belgian Parliament finally approved a bill on the protection of journalistic sources. The bill was introduced in June 2003 by Geert Bourgeois, currently Minister of Media in the Flemish Community. It took the Belgian journalists more than 20 years to obtain legal protection of their sources ...
March 30th 2005
By: Luke
Reports this morning in regard to Ofcom's approach to issuing new digital radio licences. Responses to the 'Radio - Preparing for the Future' consultation have just been made public.
Apparently GWR (soon to be GCap) have got their suit all wrinkled over Ofcom's plans to allow rival radio operators to ...
March 29th 2005
By: Russ
I know we sometimes arbitrarily compare Ofcom with the FSA, but the two regulators are fairly similar. Ofcom and the FSA are new, ultra-hip converged regulators that cover the two most basic elements in society: You know, television and money. Also, both regulators were featured in the ...
March 29th 2005
By: Russ
John Wilson of the Wales Broadband Stakeholders Group called our attention to the BSG's submission in Ofcom's Universal Service Obligation review. The BSG says in its one-page submission, among other things:
The USO is not user-centric, it is based upon regulatory Government and major service provider needs set in a ...
March 29th 2005
By: monica
Maybe some of you already know about OhmyNews: a Korean liberal online newspaper launched in February 2000 by journalist Oh Yeon Ho with the slogan �every citizen is a reporter�. In 2003 it had a network of 23.000 citizen-writers who send in news reports on just about anything and determine ...
March 29th 2005
By: Russ
Ofcom is advertising for one or more contractors to assist with the "[d]evelopment, integration, delivery and management of an integrated package-based new core environment...."
An "integrated package-based new core environment"? It sounds like the Pentagon's plan for postwar Iraq. What does that mean?
I think it basically means that Ofcom are getting ...
