May 19th 2005
By: Amit
The EU Commission recently announced that it has vetoed a decision by RegTP, the German telecoms regulator, not to impose ex-ante regulation on call termination charges set by network operators other than the German telecoms incumbent Deutsche Telekom.
When a customer of operator X calls a customer of operator Y, the ...
May 19th 2005
By: Luke
And as 3 get ready for their Competition Appeals Tribunal next week...Ofcom yesterday proposed an update to its regulation of mobile termination rates - a move that would have implications for operators using 3G technology.
Over the past two years, Ofcom has forced mobile network operators to reduce charges related to ...
May 19th 2005
By: Luke
Daily Telegraph reports -
3 will go to a hearing of the Competition Appeals Tribunal next Monday to argue that Ofcom was wrong to suggest it has "significant market power".
The company is worried Ofcom's ruling, made last summer, could see the regulator force it to cut wholesale rates to the ...
May 18th 2005
By: Luke
Deficit? Not at the moment - Channel 4 has posted a �46 million profit.
May 17th 2005
By: monica
Some days ago we posted about how Cambridge is hosting Microsoft�s ethnographic new media study, covering twelve households. Well, Oxford (can�t be less, eh?) has gone for mobile TV.
Starting next September O2 and NTL broadcast will carry out a six month trial to monitor the activities of 350 O2 customers. ...
May 16th 2005
By: Paul
Out of the many millions of television viewers just over one thousand chose to complain about the recent series of KFC adverts that showed people talking with their mouths full. Some parents were concerned that the advert encouraged bad manners.
Having been pre-vetted by the Broadcast Advertising Clearance Centre the ad ...
May 16th 2005
By: EuroTelcoBlog
Back in February I published an excruciatingly long note on BSkyB and the changes occurring within broadcasting which should make investors wary. One of the risk factors I cited was that sports and content rights holders would increasingly choose a more direct route to the end consumer, as has ...
May 16th 2005
By: Camilla
Pirate radio makes a come back this weekend as Radio London is revived, a whopping 38 years after being closed down when broadcasting regulations were tightened in the late 1960s.
Ray Anderson who is behind the comeback states �I have been very disillusioned with the Radio Authority and now Ofcom. They ...
May 16th 2005
By: monica
Joan Botella, member of the Catalan Audiovisual Council (the only independent audiovisual regulatory authority currently in Spain) was elected president of the European Platform of Regulatory Authorities (EPRA) last Friday. The EPRA webpage is still not updated but you can find Mr. Botella�s bio here.
EPRA is a forum for ...
May 16th 2005
By: Russ
Will the new 'harm and offence' standard contained in Ofcom's delayed broadcasting code cover the BBC's new weather maps, which--according to one observer--unfairly shrink/portray Scotland?
You don't need a weather-man to know which way the wind blows...
