October 14th 2005
By: Amit
The EU Commission announced yesterday that it has launched infringement proceedings against nine EU member states, for breach of certain obligations under the EU regulatory framework for electronic communications (the �Regulatory Framework�).
It is understood that the Commission has launched infringement proceedings against Belgium, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Luxemburg ...
October 14th 2005
By: monica
In case you have not had enough debates on the revision of the Television Without Frontiers Directive, here comes another chance: French Consultancy NPA Conseil is organizing yet another conference about the Directive (I found out through Broadband TV News Events �the consultancy does not seem to advertise it on ...
October 14th 2005
By: Russ
We were just alerted to a policy event to be held in Paris on the 24th of November, by NPA Conseil. They say:
A few weeks before the presentation of a new draft of the Television
Without Frontiers directive, the Liverpool conference underlined the extent of
the controversies which surround Europe�s new ...
October 14th 2005
By: EuroTelcoBlog
I noticed a lot of cheering and envious statements from the US when openreach (notice how the lack of capital letters in the name is intended to suggest a level playing field) was launched. Well, the UK Telecoms Adjudicator's unbundling update for September is hot off the presses, and it ...
October 13th 2005
By: Russ
I'm sure by now everyone has heard that the new version of Apple's iTunes (version 6) permits the U.S. user to download music videos and television shows (the U.K. user gets the music videos, but not the television shows). Apple's announcement, released yesterday, says:
iTunes 6, the next generation of the ...
October 13th 2005
By: Russ
Ofcom just announced a radio spectrum auction. Here are the key details:
Frequency band: 412-414 MHz, paired with 422-424 MHz
License: Covers the entire U.K.
Price: �50,000 reserve, so that's the minimum price, and the auction will be single-round, sealed bid, with the highest bidder paying the price of ...
October 12th 2005
By: Luke
Chatham House hosted the International Institute of Communications annual conference earlier this week. Some of you will have noticed the advert lurking on the left hand side of our site for the past few weeks.
I didn't get to attend as much of the event as I would have liked, ...
October 12th 2005
By: Luke
Damian Reece in today's Independent reports -
"BT Group has appointed Sir Bryan Carsberg, the former head of Oftel, the previous telecoms industry regulator, to sit on the supervisory board that will oversee Openreach, the new business created by the telecoms group to offer rivals access to the company's main network."
Full ...
October 11th 2005
By: monica
Today in Brussels the Open Society Institute has presented the monitoring report "Television across Europe: regulation, policy and independence". The 1662 pages report analyses broadcasting across 20 European countries (including EU members, candidates and potential candidates), and addresses policy recommendations to national and international authorities and groups.
The findings seem slightly ...
October 11th 2005
By: Russ
This morning's discussion of the proposals for an increased license fee by the BBC caused me to wonder if any portion of the increased fee would be spent to improve the BBC's dating website. Never seen it? Check it out! Here are some great little BBC nuggets ...
