June 23rd 2005
By: Luke
Ofcom today published the following update statement in regard to its Strategic Review of Telecommunications...
Nearly two years ago, as Ofcom was established, it was 20 years on from the privatisation of British Telecommunications as a vertically-integrated monopoly and the first introduction of competition. Ofcom, and previously Oftel, had also been ...
June 22nd 2005
By: scottlunt
Here's a list of STB OEMS (original equipment manufacturers):
http://www.aminocom.com http://www.pacemicro.com
http://www.adbglobal.com http://www.moxi.com http://www.humaxdigital.com http://www.i3micro.com/i3web/ http://broadband.motorola.com/catalog/group_by_category.asp http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,5184,66,00.html http://product.samsung.com/cgi-bin/nabc/product/http://www.thomson.net/EN/Home/Products/Products_netops.htm
http://www.vigoto.com
June 22nd 2005
By: Russ
A reader asks whether anyone knows of IPTV set-top box manufacturers other than Pace and Amino.
Anyone? Answers to: blog@ofcomwatch.co.uk
June 22nd 2005
By: Russ
David Hickson wrote OfcomWatch today and provided this follow-up to his earlier posting on the Silent Calls issue:
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Silent Calls Week - the Others and the Safe Harbor
In my posting on May 23 I covered the way in which Ofcom acted in the case of MKD Holdings Ltd (Kitchens Direct) and ...
June 21st 2005
By: Don Redding
I am starting up an email list for people who are active in campaigns, research or other activities to maintain and strengthen public service broadcasting, or related issues. It's called 'citcom': short for citizens' interests in communications. If you're interested to join email me at dredding@ntlworld.com with 'Ring yes' in ...
June 21st 2005
By: Don Redding
The Voice of the Listener and Viewer has recently called on government and Ofcom to establish a free digital satellite service, or freesat. Their report is at http://http://www.vlv.org.uk/pages/1-news.shtml
Don Redding, Public Voice
June 21st 2005
By: Russ
Returning to Luke's recent post concerning Raymond Snoddy's attack on Ofcom... here are my thoughts:
* It's Snoddy who is wrong in many respects. Reducing public service obligations on terrestrial broadcasters is a good thing. Mostly because--in my opinion--nobody knows what PSB is. Why pretend otherwise? Government or regulatory attempts to ...
June 21st 2005
By: Russ
Today, at 3:30 pm, the House of Lords select committee on the BBC Charter Review will take testimony from Sir Christopher Bland, former Chairman of the BBC.
A panel of academic media experts (Damian Tambini, Oxford; Georgina Born, Cambridge; Mark Armstrong, UCL; and Martin Cave, Warwick) will also testify at ...
June 20th 2005
By: Russ
Ofcom was kind enough to provide OfcomWatch with some brief midyear statistics on how it is progressing with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), implemented in the U.K. on January 1, 2005. For our previous posts on this issue, check here and here.
* Ofcom is averaging about 130 FOIA ...
June 20th 2005
By: Russ
Follow-up to our recent post on this issue (UK copyright extension?)...
Purnell's speech from last week is here. It was a wide-ranging piece, primarily boasting of British success in the creative industries and--for some strange reason--linking it with government policy. And it has the odd-sounding conclusion: DCMS�s job is ...
