March 30th 2007
By: Russ
* Jeff Pulver likes Ofcom's VoIP code of conduct. He writes:
Recognizing that VoIP services have the potential to offer significant new benefits to consumers, including more competition and choice, lower prices and new services such as second lines and nomadic services, my first read suggests to me that ...
March 29th 2007
By: lisavanhala
The European Commission released its 12th report on the EU’s telecom markets today. The Commission report provides an overview of Europe's telecom markets, worth almost €290 billion in revenues, just prior to the reform of the EU telecom rules. It includes individual chapters covering the situation in each EU Member ...
March 29th 2007
By: lisavanhala
Over the last year a range of new Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services have been launched and industry forecasts predict that there could be as many as three million users in the UK by the end of this year.
Following public consultation in 2006, Ofcom decided to put in place ...
March 29th 2007
By: Russ
The Times business section has an interesting comment today about Gordon Brown's budget and the prospects for raising money from further radio spectrum auctions. James Harding writes in part:
To be fair, the Treasury is being deliberately vague about the value of spectrum. This is partly because they ...
March 28th 2007
By: lisavanhala
Of course another reason that mobile operators are relatively pleased with Ofcom over the mobile termination charges is that it is quite likely that they will face steeper cuts to revenues from the European Commission’s plans to force reductions in roaming charges (what you pay when you use your mobile ...
March 27th 2007
By: lisavanhala
And this is a follow-up to Russ’s post below.
Everyone seems to have their opinions on what good regulation should look like as Russ demonstrates (and I agree with all his points). However, one thing that hasn’t been mentioned yet is the EU’s role in all of this because they have ...
March 27th 2007
By: Russ
This is a follow-up to Lisa's post below.
Whilst almost everyone in the communications regulation sphere is talking about the phone-quiz scandal, Ofcom yesterday quietly released a massive regulatory statement on mobile call termination (MCT). It's 411 pages long, but the best thing about it is that Ofcom really gets ...
March 27th 2007
By: lisavanhala
Ofcom announced new controls this morning which will limit the amount that mobile network operators can charge other telephone companies for connecting calls on their mobile networks. The current charge controls expire this week. In June 2005 Ofcom began a review of the market to decide whether regulation remains necessary.
The ...
March 26th 2007
By: lisavanhala
The “complaints-regulation-more complaints” spiral - where complaints of improprieties rise after new regulation meant to moderate behaviour is introduced – may be set to continue with Ofcom launching its investigation into the quiz TV sector. We saw this trend with the MAC migration rules issue.
According to the Guardian:
Ofcom said today ...
March 26th 2007
By: Luke
Associated Press are running this story -
"The Tories will seek to agree a code of conduct for television premium phone-ins today, at a summit with broadcasters, regulators and consumer groups.
Official inquiries are already under way following the emergence of a series of scams affecting high-profile quizzes and other shows.
But the ...
