April 3rd 2007
By: Russ
In case you missed it, Ofcom released another excellent report yesterday -- this time about broadband. Click here for the 56-page pdf document.
I was discussing some new media regulation issues with a friend last night and today and -- whilst searching the internet -- saw that Microsoft had just ...
April 3rd 2007
By: Russ
Wow, there are so many interesting responses to Ofcom's DDR consultation. They are great for two reasons. First, many of them persuasively argue for whatever outcome they think should result. More importantly for regulation watchers, however, in this proceeding many of the respondents criticise Ofcom's regulatory process ...
April 2nd 2007
By: Russ
Our friends at the D.C. firm Fletcher Heald & Hildreth alerted us to recent FCC action that would ultimately permit use of so-called 'white space' (unused radio spectrum) in the television bands for internet access devices -- after the U.S. switchover concludes in Feb 2009.
A six-partner coalition of heavyweights in ...
April 2nd 2007
By: Russ
I thought I would start sampling some of the 600+ responses to Ofcom's digital dividend review (DDR) consultation. Today, I'll start with the mobile telephony firm Vodafone. Vodafone's response is here. [9-page .pdf]
Vodafone appears to be primarily concerned with technical and legal issues associated with the co-existence of ...
April 1st 2007
By: Luke
Today's Sunday Telegraph reports...
"The impartiality of communications industry watchdog Ofcom was being questioned last night, after it emerged that its two most senior radio executives attended a dinner party at the Hilton hotel in Dallas hosted by a company which weeks later won a bid to operate a UK radio ...
