June 29th 2007
By: Russ
I just read this report from the HD Masters Conference in London. TVBEurope states:
[Ofcom's Greg] Bensberg also dismissed a suggestion that the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of ASO [analogue switch-off] be seized with a 'big bang' conversion of Freeview to an all-HD platform, claiming that viewers needed to have the choice ...
June 28th 2007
By: Russ
Details here. Ofcom report:
Ofcom's Radio Licensing Committee made licence awards to the following applicants in Northern Ireland and Scotland (in no particular order):
Drive FM (Derry/Londonderry)
Aldergrove and Antrim FM (Aldergrove and Antrim)
Ballykinler FM (Ballykinler, County Down)
Holywood FM (Holywood, County Down)
Speysound Radio (Badenoch & Strathspey)
Each of these services will be licensed for ...
June 28th 2007
By: Russ
Folks, the news is coming in fast and furious today:
* James Purnell MP is to take up the DCMS post. Jowell will retain a cabinet-level position overseeing the Olympics.
* DTI has morphed into something called The Department for Business, Entreprise and Regulatory Reform (DBERR) and will be ...
June 28th 2007
By: Russ
Ed Richards gave an interesting speech yesterday. The full text is here. For someone like me who is not very technical when it comes to the Digital Dividend Review (DDR), the most interesting nugget to come from the speech is this:
At the technical level, there is much ...
June 27th 2007
By: Russ
The news from Brussels:
“The Commission has repeatedly warned Germany that its new telecom law violates EU Telecom Rules, but without success†said EU Telecom Commissioner Viviane Reding. "We want to ensure Germany can benefit from a healthy, competitive and fully functioning market and encourage both competition and investment in broadband ...
June 27th 2007
By: Russ
The Guardian reports today that Sky is frustrated with Ofcom over the regulator's decision to employ a delayed public consultation over Sky's DTT pay-package plans when rival Setanta did not have to go through the same procedure.
I think Sky have a fair point.
Probably the most important duty of a regulator ...
June 26th 2007
By: scottlunt
For those of you wishing to tune in to a late night listen to somafm.com, KCRW.org or live365, you'll have to tune in another day.
Why? Today (Tuesday, June 26) thousands of US-based internet radio broadcasters are shutting down their stations to protest a royalty rate increase that, if unchanged, will ...
June 25th 2007
By: Russ
I'm sure Ofcom didn't like reading this in yesterday's Sunday Times:
Britain is one of the most expensive places in Europe to get high-speed internet access, according to switching site Moneysupermarket. French broadband customers pay an average of only 83p a month for every 1Mb per second connection – UK consumers ...
June 21st 2007
By: Russ
Ofcom yesteday released another consultation document in its Digital Dividend Review, this time promising to find a better way for programme making and special events (PMSE) spectrum users to access spectrum without having to bid in auctions. The consultation closes on 31 August 2007. You can comment via ...
June 20th 2007
By: Scott
The Government has announced the creation of a new Parliamentary group, the All Party Parliamentary Communications Group (apComms). apComms is a merger of the All Party Parliamentary Internet Group (APIG), the All Party Parliamentary Mobile Group (apMobile) and the All Party Parliamentary Group on Communications. The merging of these groups ...
