June 11th 2007
By: Russ
... in Australia
This report from today's Sydney Morning Herald:
"Labor on Sunday accused the government of having been as sceptical about broadband as it had been about climate change.
Opposition communications spokesman Stephen Conroy said Labor welcomed the government's discovery that broadband was actually important to Australians, albeit on the eve of ...
June 8th 2007
By: Scott
The Competition Appeals Tribunal has held its first case management conference in the appeal by Rapture against a ruling by Ofcom, which concluded that charges levied by BSkyB for the provision of electronic programme guide (EPG) services between November 2005 and November 2006 were fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory. Rapture claims ...
June 6th 2007
By: Russ
Folks, I know I bang-on about this issue, but I still cannot get it out of my head how broadband providers in the UK can go around claiming such fast internet download speeds when most of them simply deliver something much much slower to the vast majority of their customers. ...
June 6th 2007
By: Russ
A while back we reported that Ofcom CEO Ed Richards visited the U.S. Apparently, part of his trip included his testimony before a U.S. Congressional sub-committee on telecommunications matters. The link to Richards' testimony is here. Here are some nuggets, along with my reaction:
On Ofcom's structure:
"Whilst we ...
June 5th 2007
By: Scott
The Federal Communication Commission got a bit of a kicking yesterday when the Second Circuit Court of Appeals handed down its decision in Fox Television v. FCC
The case dealt with an appeal by Fox (and several other broadcasters) against the FCC's expansion of its rules to deal with obscenity ...
June 5th 2007
By: Russ
On May 22, Luke and I sat down with Peter Luff MP, and talked to him about Ofcom and other regulatory and political issues facing the media and communications sector. We had seen Luff in action about a month earlier in his role as Chairman of the Trade & ...
June 5th 2007
By: scottlunt
Surely most of us who read this blog are aware of the goings-on in the world of copyright, digital rights management (DRM), and the big music labels. But, in case you missed it, last week marked somewhat of a milestone. On the last day of May Apple announced the availability ...
June 4th 2007
By: leepetro
As some of you might be aware, television broadcasters across the pond have slowly been making the transition to digital television service. The process started in 1997 with the Commission releasing a table of allotments for existing broadcasters, which has now been all but finalized by ...
