January 17th 2007
By: Russ
All the news about Ofcom these days seems to be about food adverts or racism, including these types of pieces about allegedly racist remarks and bullying in the Celebrity Big Brother house. (The CBB house-mates also smoke and drink and eat junk food, so it's a nightmare for 'quality ...
January 15th 2007
By: Russ
Great article in the MediaGuardian this morning by Emily Bell. She discusses the transparency issues surrounding the recently released BBC board minutes at the time of Greg Dyke's 2004 departure. Bell ties the transparency aspects of that madhouse with the current debates over the proper size of the BBC licence ...
January 12th 2007
By: Russ
Just a follow-up on Ofcom's award of an FM licence to Diamond FM covering Plymouth in March 2006. As we were migrating OfcomWatch to its new site, I noticed that our previous post on the issue (which is here) had a few comments questioning Ofcom's licence award decision, including ...
January 12th 2007
By: Russ
Ofcom yesterday released a further consultation as it seeks to refine its spectrum auction for the 10 GHz, 28 GHz, 32 GHz and 40 GHz frequency bands. Comments are due by no later than 8 February 2007.
Auction / game theory experts (both of you) take note: Ofcom want your opinion on ...
January 11th 2007
By: Russ
More commentary on Ofcom’s recent publication… Today, I will briefly review the essay submitted by Martin Cave titled 'New spectrum-using technologies and the future of spectrum management: a European policy perspective'. Professor Cave is a well-known expert in the area of radio spectrum policy and he was the author ...
January 11th 2007
By: Luke
The MediaGuardian is reporting that -
"...the BBC has set up a £350m war chest for expansion into social networking on the internet and international acquisitions.
The BBC is to increase its presence in the social networking world with a series of new and improved websites, based around its favourite brands ...
January 10th 2007
By: Luke
ZDNet reports -
Cable & Wireless has accused BT of overcharging it regularly for connecting customers to unbundled exchanges.
In a complaint now lodged with Ofcom, the provider has claimed BT broke rules set by the national telecommunications regulator, which were supposed to see BT charge other operators fair prices for setting ...
January 10th 2007
By: Luke
Ofcom today announced plans to simplify the licensing of private radio communications used by a wide range of businesses, including taxi and courier firms, utilities and supermarket chains.These changes will come into effect in early 2008 and are designed to:
Reduce complexity: 21 different types of licence, covering 50,000 licensees, will ...
January 10th 2007
By: Russ
Dear readers,
As you may have already noticed, we have re-designed and migrated OfcomWatch to a different publishing platform. There's still some more work to do (this new site is still not entirely functional), but our archive is now fully searchable back to 2003. A special 'thank you' to ...
January 8th 2007
By: Russ
The Internet Service Providers' Assn (ISPA) apparently just released something called their Heros and Villains list for 2006.Ofcom received a 'hero' nomination for its opposition to Europe's Audiovisual Media Services Directive amendment to the Television Without Frontiers Directive. Viviane Reding received a 'villain' nomination for her policies on .eu domain ...
