November 30th 2005
By: Roger Darlington
The Open Rights Group is a new not-for-profit digital rights activist group, working to raise the profile of digital rights issues in the media and help other groups get their voices heard. Its goals are:
* to raise awareness in the ...
November 30th 2005
By: Don Redding
Strange Moments with VLV (3).
In its current annual plan Ofcom denotes a new work stream reviewing the way it approaches its duty to 'further the interests of citizens in relation to communications'. But it has said nothing publicly about what this work stream includes. The grapevine says that the Ofcom ...
November 30th 2005
By: Don Redding
Or, Strange Moments with VLV (2).
Giving a typically ebullient (not to say aggressive) performance to the Voice of the Listener and Viewer's members at their autumn conference today, Ofcom chief executive Stephen Carter majored on what he clearly still feels is an unresolved problem with UK TV -- namely the ...
November 30th 2005
By: Don Redding
Or, Strange Moments with VLV (1).
As we know Freeview has been the runaway success of digital TV, its take-up ever rising. But at VLV's autumn conference today the platform's general manager admitted there were people who are told they can't get the service when actually they can. It all comes ...
November 30th 2005
By: Russ
Great article in the Times (Jill Sherman) focusing on EnergyWatch and PostWatch. The article states:
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report said that huge numbers of complaints
relating to wrong energy bills and lost mail were continuing to pour in five years after the groups were set up. Energywatch and Postwatch were ...
November 30th 2005
By: Roger Darlington
In some ways, Ofcom is like an iceberg. Most people only see a small proportion which is above the waterline. Below, there are a great many other issues and activities which support the more visible part of Ofcom's work. A good example is numbering - an esoteric subject but, without ...
November 29th 2005
By: monica
In the initial days of digital broadcasting Spain was one of the European success stories. By 2002 the country was, together with the UK and Sweden, at the forefront of developments in digital satellite television and leading the way towards digital terrestrial. Today, however, after arbitrary political decisions, a major ...
November 29th 2005
By: Scott
The Competition Appeals Tribunal (CAT) has concluded that Ofcom erred in its decision to designate Hutchinson 3G (H3G) as an operator with significant market power (SMP) in the market for wholesale call termination on its network.
The CAT agreed with '3' that Ofcom "did not carry out a full assessment of ...
November 29th 2005
By: Yves Blondeel
The European Commission has released a Working Document, constituting a formal Call for Input on the forthcoming review of the European Union regulatory framework for electronic communications, and including the review of the Recommendation on Relevant Markets Susceptible to Ex-Ante Regulation.
A public workshop will be organised on 24 January 2006, ...
November 28th 2005
By: Russ
In today's Independent Media Weekly, Glover writes in part:
If Sir Christopher Meyer is made to resign, that would give comfort to the
opponents of an independent Press Complaints Commission and the supporters of
government supervision of the media. A minor embarrassment might have been
removed, but at the cost of a major concession ...
