May 18th 2006
By: Roger Darlington
BT has today published its fourth quarter and full year results.
Some of the highlights are:Revenue of £19,514 million, up 6 per cent (3 per cent excluding the impact of reductions to mobile termination rates and acquisitions)New wave revenue of £6,282 million, up 38 per cent, represents 32 per cent ...
May 15th 2006
By: Scott
A good day at the Competition Appeal Tribunal for Ofcom today, with the CAT unanimously upholding an Ofcom determination that Media Marketing and Promotions (MMP) breached number portability conditions by not porting three non-geographic numbers it had
been providing to Prime Time Radio (PTR) to another service provider, Uniworld, at PTR's ...
May 13th 2006
By: Roger Darlington
Earlier this week, I attended the launch at the House of Commons of the newly-formed Associate Parliamentary Media Literacy Group. The event was chaired by Lib Dem MP Danny Alexander - whose constituency name (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey) is itself a test of media literacy - and he will ...
May 12th 2006
By: Roger Darlington
O2 yesterday became the last of the UK's major mobile phone networks to reduce the cost of making calls abroad in an attempt to avert the threat of regulation from the European Union.
As an article in today's "Guardian" puts it: "The industry is moving swiftly to avert the threat ...
May 12th 2006
By: Russ
Interesting comparison point for those of you who were following the recently leaked details of what certain BBC celebrities earn.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is consulting on whether it should adopt a rule that would generally require disclosure of corporate non-executive salaries when those salaries exceed executive salaries ...
May 12th 2006
By: Russ
Sorry folks, been busy lately ... err ... enjoying the sunshine...
Ofcom this past Tuesday released this regulatory statement on the obligations of television broadcasters (except the BBC, which is separately regulated) relating to cross-promotions. According to Ofcom, all of the regulations adopted by the ITC in 2002 have been ...
May 9th 2006
By: Roger Darlington
Following Friday's departure from the Department of Trade & Industry of Alun Michael and several other Ministers, the DTI has now announced a new allocation of responsibilities with Margaret Hodge assuming responsibility for e-commerce and the communications and information industries.
May 9th 2006
By: Luke
NB - This post has been amended.
Reuters is reporting that the European Commission is not budging on its proposed Audiovisual Media Services Directive - which includes provisions to regulate (non-linear) internet based services.
The DCMS, supported by Ofcom and other bodies, argue (rightly in our view) that the Commission's proposals would ...
May 8th 2006
By: Roger Darlington
Ofcom has today published information about per-provider slamming and mis-selling complaints. The regulator states that: "This data is made publicly available as part of Ofcom's continuing enforcement activity in this area to help ensure consumers are properly protected and informed."
Behind this seemingly innocuous statement is a significant shift ...
May 8th 2006
By: Luke
The growing interest in using C-band for UMTS or wireless broadband is ringing alarm bells for satellite operators.
The World Radio Conference (WRC) of 2007 may be some way off but a storm is already brewing over certain agenda items not least what is being described as �a serious threat to ...
