March 24th 2007
By: Russ
The BBC responded to Ofcom on the DDR earlier this week. Click here (go to the bottom of the page) for a copy from the BBC's website -- as of today, Ofcom had not posted a copy on its website. Not including the associated Indepen report, the beeb's ...
March 23rd 2007
By: lisavanhala
Last month Ofcom implemented new broadband migration rules which require companies to provide customers with Macs within five days and free of charge. This system replaced one of self-regulation and was meant to provide customers with choice and protect them from firms going bust.
Price wars have put consumers into the ...
March 23rd 2007
By: lisavanhala
Ofcom has published its Public Service Broadcasting Report [pdf] which aims to provide an evidence base for monitoring the delivery of PSB. The designated PSB broadcasters are the BBC, ITV1, GMTV, Channel 4, Five, S4C and Teletext.
The report's purpose is to enable both Ofcom and its stakeholders to gain a ...
March 22nd 2007
By: lisavanhala
The Telegraph this morning wrote that “Ofcom was under mounting pressure yesterday to take a tougher stance against broadcasters involved in the premium rate phoneline scandal.”
Sure enough, Ofcom later today announced an inquiry into the use of premium rate telecoms services (PRS) in television programmes.
The news release stated:
Viewers and a ...
March 21st 2007
By: KeithJamesMc
I don’t know if anyone else’s ears pricked up when Gordo mentioned Spectrum in his budget statement. The context was related to the government raising money from asset sales.
£36bn of asset sales less £18bn already announced gives £18bn of new asset sales in the next three years from 2008/9 onwards. ...
March 21st 2007
By: KeithJamesMc
The UK PayTV market has never been so competitive: we have the relaunched Virgin Media, the newly refinanced TopUpTV and Tiscali (aka Homechoice), the financial might of BT, Vodafone, Orange (France Telecom) and O2 (Telefonica) which have just launched or are about to launch IPTV services and of course 800lb ...
March 21st 2007
By: lisavanhala
Ofcom’s consultation on the DDR closed yesterday and a final decision is expected by June of this year. We found another petition on the issue on the No. 10 website which has now closed and received a response from the government.
The petition’s title: We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister ...
March 21st 2007
By: lisavanhala
We’ve been hearing about it in the U.S. press on a regular basis for about a year now and it definitely picked up pace before the elections there last November. Now the trend of debating the issue of Net Neutrality has hit the UK. But like most American imports, the ...
March 20th 2007
By: lisavanhala
Tired of reading about the BSkyB and Virgin Media skirmishes? Another battle is being played out in Europe over mobile wireless intellectual property.
Nokia went to German and Dutch courts yesterday seeking to invalidate some Qualcomm patents. Qualcomm in response launched a counterattack against Nokia today and tomorrow the firm will ...
March 20th 2007
By: lisavanhala
I've just been reading with bemusement about the Sky, Virgin, Ofcom malarkey that was playing out earlier today - the likes of which I have never seen before and was reflecting on how Ofcom is basically playing the role of referee on the playground. I can’t think of another industry ...
