By Russ on July 24th, 2008
OfcomWatch: on holiday…
Well folks, the lazy days of summer are upon us. Let’s face it: the regulatory environment in the UK was turning into a bit of a mid-summer bust — capped off with the BBC’s report that it adds billions of pounds to the UK economy each year. Funny how the reports are either bullish (BBC) or bearish (C4) depending on the flow of money. Follow the money…
I’m off to Isle of Palms, South Carolina. Heart of Dixie. In a sign of the times, our beach house has wi-fi, plasmas in every room, and my nephews and brother are bringing multiple XBox 360 consoles. The beach is not bad either:
Well so long as you considered your carbon footprint, what with the long-haul and all those TVs ((o))
Yesterday Ofcom published their latest consultation on charging aeronautical and maritime users for spectrum. They had planned to start charging this year for the large amounts used by radar but it seems it’s defferred until at least 2010.
By chance I wrote an article in last month’s Land Mobile :
http://www.landmobile.co.uk/articles/2008/0608-jamespage.pdf
on how Ofcom should consider the environmental impacts of its decisions as I thought all government departments are supposed to do, following 2003 legislation. There’s still time to get it written in to the new EU Directives…