CMA
BT is wrong on broadband say telecoms managers
News According to research from the CMA more than 70 per cent of CMA members questioned said they would like to use broadband internet services and their businesses were suffering because they could not,... [10 Oct 2001]
Companies take action over telecoms fraud
News The CMA is pushing for telcos to bear the brunt of any loss incurred when a hacker accesses the corporate network. According to the CMA, global figures for fixed and cellular related fraud will rise to... [10 Apr 2001]
IT-literate lawyers unleashed to help cybercrime disputes
News As a result, the Communications Management Association (CMA) has created the Institute for Communications Arbitration and Forensics (ICAF) to arbitrate in such cases. A recent survey of CMA members found... [03 Apr 2001]
Ofcom: The superfluous super-regulator?
Comment According to David Harrington, director general of the telecoms lobby group CMA, this structure is a disaster waiting to happen. Since media and entertainment and the means of delivering them began to converge, the need... [14 Dec 2000]
Ofcom 'could slow reform', warns telecoms lobby group
News The CMA is concerned that 'management by committee' within Ofcom could make that problem worse. David Harrington, director general of CMA, said that while he agreed in principle with not giving too much... [13 Dec 2000]
BT break up: You ain't seen nothing yet
News The Communication Managers Association (CMA) has been hammering Oftel for years about BT's monopolistic position in most of the country - especially in Scotland - because it feels that this raises prices for both... [09 Nov 2000]
Oftel to get tough over 'confusing' business tariffs
News The CMA would like to see Oftel take action here. silicon.com has learned that Oftel will discuss instigating a full review of the situation at an internal meeting to be held on 2 November. It's understood that the... [30 Oct 2000]
BT gets off lightly
News Speaking to silicon.com, David Harrington, director general of the CMA, said: "It's OK if you're in London, but if you've got a countrywide net - there's only one supplier. The Communications Managers Association... [27 Oct 2000]
SDSL pilot promises high-bandwidth data transfer
News John Wright, chairman of the Communications Managers Association (CMA, formerly TMA), welcomed the concentration on broadband. Fibernet is to launch a pilot scheme of symmetric digital subscriber line (SDSL) networks for... [11 Oct 2000]
Government, mismanagement and the telco: A market in disarray
Comment CMA has previously pointed to a disparity between the public utterances of BT and those of Oftel on this very subject. The above are extracts from 'Coalface', to be published in the October issue of Newsline, the journal... [02 Oct 2000]
A holy trinity of acronyms
Comment The Telecoms Managers Association, which renamed itself the Communications Managers Association (CMA) this week, conducted a poll of over 400 senior comms professionals to garner their opinions of broadband rollout in... [29 Sep 2000]
TMA celebrates new name with old woes
News The outburst comes on the back of the 'Communications Market 2000' survey from the Telecommunications Managers Association (TMA) - which was today renamed as the Communications Managers Association (CMA). [26 Sep 2000]