September 28th 2005
By: Luke
Looks like the IPTV market looks set to really hot up next year. Jemima Gibbons writing on Digital-Lifestyles reports,
"BT will roll out IPTV in �late summer 2006�, according to Andrew Burke, CEO, BT Entertainment, speaking at the Enhanced TV Show in London today.
Developed in partnership with Microsoft, BT�s new set-top ...
September 28th 2005
By: Russ
A U.K. provider of products to the telemarketing industry recently sent us an email newsletter that touches on some of the regulatory issues concerning do not call lists, silent calls, etc. I thought I would share two portions of it: [I]f ...
September 28th 2005
By: Russ
Ofcom released a consultation today, with responses due by December 6, on certain numbering issues, including:
* Ending revenue sharing on 0870 numbers to bring the prices in line with national rate geographic numbers.
* Reclassifying 0871 as premium rate (subject to ICSTIS regulation).
* 0844 - no changes proposed, ...
September 27th 2005
By: Luke
ZDNet report,
"BT has lured a senior executive from rival Cable & Wireless to help run openreach, the new access division that is meant to bring fair competition to the UK telecoms sector.
The ten-strong openreach executive team was announced by BT on Tuesday morning. It includes the appointment of Emma Gilthorpe, ...
September 27th 2005
By: Russ
OfcomWatch friend Chris Marsden alerted us to a special issue of the journal Info, covering the topic �What�s wrong with competition policy in new media?� The articles in this special issue stem from Oxford�s Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP) Spring 2005 seminar series, and include contributions ...
September 27th 2005
By: Russ
My reaction to Roger's post below on Viviane Reding's counter-attack on critics of the proposed Television Without Frontiers (TWF) revisions:
She reportedly says: 'I have no intention to "regulate the Internet"!'
* First, that statement is demonstrably false.
* Second, she mentions two unequivocal goods to justify regulation of the internet: ...
September 25th 2005
By: Roger Darlington
The European Commissioner Viviane Reding has been attacked over her draft proposals for reform of the Television Without Frontiers Directive and accused of wanting in effect to extend elements of broadcasting regulation to the Internet but, at a conference earlier this week, she came out fighting. At the " Audiovisual ...
September 25th 2005
By: monica
The European Commission has recently launched two public consultations that will run until mid-November:
The first one: What challenges for the publishing industry in the digital age? The starting point is the crisis faced by the publishing sector as a result of falling advertising revenues and an increasingly elder readership (a ...
September 23rd 2005
By: Russ
OfcomWatcher Yves Blondeel outlines some of the key differences between Ofcom's initial proposed settlement with BT and the final settlement announced by Ofcom yesterday:
* The undertakings now make it clearer that 'openreach' is expected to be the primary sales channel for its own products, and that it may only sell ...
September 23rd 2005
By: Camilla
Ten radio licences have been issued by Ofcom throught the Radio Licensing Committee ('RLC') on 5 September out of a total of fourteen applicants, summarised below:
West Yorkshire:
BCB (Bradford)
Phoenix Radio (Halifax)
Manchester and area:
Chorley FM
Crescent Community Radio (Rochdale)
ALL FM (Ardwick, Longsight, Levenshulme and surrounding areas of inner south Manchester)
Wythenshawe FM
Other areas:
The Superstation ...
