July 28th 2005
By: EuroTelcoBlog
The earnings reporting season is upon us, accounting for a marked blogging slowdown as I torment myself. BT reported some pretty decent numbers today, and to be fair there was a lot to be positive about in them, but in the detail there is some stuff which shows where the ...
July 28th 2005
By: Luke
Ofcom is preparing to auction five to ten low-power radio spectrum licences in a move that could lead to a host of low-cost, local mobile phone firms breaking into the UK mobile markets.
The regulator today outlined plans to award the licences after one round of sealed bids and called for ...
July 28th 2005
By: monica
After years of flirtation, the romance between the two Spanish cable operators Ono and Auna is likely to end in marriage. Something has made things easier: Auna has divorced its mobile division (Amena), 80% of which is about to be bought by France T�l�com�s mobile division (Orange) for 6,400 million ...
July 27th 2005
By: Russ
OfcomWatch recently sat down with John Hambley and Charlotte Wright of the Satellite and Cable Broadcasters� Group (SCBG) to discuss many of the regulatory and policy issues confronting the television industry.
Click here for the full interview. If you�re like me, you�ll appreciate SCBG�s common-sense�and sometimes blunt�approach to these issues.
Aside from ...
July 26th 2005
By: Roger Darlington
Last week, Ofcom published its Annual Report for 2004/5. While much of the media coverage focused on the high salaries and bonuses of the top executives, a quiet reading of the weighty document reveals an impressive record of achievement. The whole tone of Ofcom is different from its predecessor organisations, ...
July 25th 2005
By: Paul
Following on from Roger Darlington�s post last Wednesday �What happens when broadcasting and the Internet collide?� I was fortunate enough to attended a Westminster Media Forum seminar concerning the revision of the Television Without Frontiers directive on that very day and I can perhaps shed a little light on what ...
July 25th 2005
By: Roger Darlington
It is reported today that Cable & Wireless is close to making a formal complaint against BT for problems incurred in obtaining unbundled local loops from the incumbent for C&W company Bulldog. The independent adjudicator Peter Black was appointed precisely in order to resolve such problems in a speedy and ...
July 25th 2005
By: Russ
Check out this interesting article in the Scotsman.
It's basically about a call-centre operator asking Ofcom to better regulate the bad apples in the industry--get this--to stop the flow of people putting their names on the 'do-not-call list'.
We're told: "If things go unchecked, in theory, everyone will end up being ...
July 21st 2005
By: Nicholas Francis
Ofcom announced in yesterday�s Competition Bulletin that it had opened an investigation following allegations of market foreclosure and predatory pricing by the BBC. The complaint centres on BBC Broadcast�s winning of contracts in 2004 to provide �media access services�, such as subtitling, to Channel 4 and Five. BBC Broadcast is ...
July 21st 2005
By: Luke
Ofcom today confirmed details of an organisational restructuring. This is intended to increase Ofcom's operating effectiveness, build on the past two years of post-merger efficiencies (including a 32% reduction in headcount and an 8% reduction in operating budget in real terms for 2005/6) and to anticipate the regulatory needs of ...
