July 15th 2005
By: Luke
The Lawyer says...
Stephanie Liston, the co-head of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr's European communications and e-commerce group, has been appointed a non-executive director of Ofcom.
Liston will have to resign her partnership of Wilmer Cutler so she does not share in profits derived from regulated industries. She will continue at ...
July 15th 2005
By: Russ
* Ofcom announced that U.S.-U.K. telecoms lawyer Stephanie Liston joined as a non-executive director. Liston is a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr... and on the board at ECTA (wonder what BT thinks about that?). Liston is also the author of: OFCOM-The Perfect Dish or a Recipe for ...
July 14th 2005
By: Russ
Folks, I think it's safe to say that over the coming years we will see lots of new devices made available that allow users to port, store and customise media content.
Here's the latest - the Slingbox. The Slingbox received Walt Mossberg's endorsement recently... Mossberg calls the Slingbox an example ...
July 13th 2005
By: EuroTelcoBlog
Fans of statistics and information overload will welcome the just-released OFCOM overview of the UK communications market for 2005. Last year's version was fantastic, and I look forward to wading through this one. Notable headlines:
* Broadband outpaces narrowband, and the average price-per-megabit for broadband has fallen 63% since 2002;
* ...
July 13th 2005
By: Don Redding
The new Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee is as follows:
� Janet Anderson (Lab)
� Nigel Evans (Con)
� Paul Farrelly (Lab)
� ...
July 13th 2005
By: Don Redding
You may remember Don Foster tabling the following question, which was answered in parliament yesterday:
Don Foster (Lib Dem, Bath) asked the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what means her Department uses to assess the effectiveness of Ofcom in upholding its duties to citizens and consumers; and if ...
July 12th 2005
By: Roger Darlington
In a statement today, the Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) has unveiled a new labelling system, based on the RDF (Resource Description Framework) standard, making the process of labelling across large complex websites far simpler in order to encourage many more major online brands to label their sites and thereby ...
July 12th 2005
By: Russ
The EC has today launched a consultation on its proposed revision of the Television Without Frontiers Directive. The website link is here. Here's the deal, folks:
* Responses are to be sent to avpolicy@cec.eu.int by no later than September 5, 2005.
* There are five separate issues papers that you can comment ...
July 12th 2005
By: Russ
Mark your diaries and RSVP now for the Oxford Media Summer Symposium, to be held here in leafy Oxford on July 20.
The symposium will ask the following questions:
* What are the key features of the UK blueprint for broadcast governance in the digital age? [Blueprint? That doesn't sound good... ~ ...
July 12th 2005
By: EuroTelcoBlog
The EU DGInfosoc has just published a consumer guide to roaming, with some excellent tables of extortionate pricing examples from around Europe. Read 'em and weep.
~ James Enck
