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Round-Up The first travel-themed report of the week is news that Ofcom has waved a couple of table tennis racquets in the air and signalled take-off for mobile phones on aircraft. Planes, trains and automobiles - the title of an amusing comedy flick...
[28 Mar 2008]
Comment O is for Ofcom O is for Ofcom During 2007, LinkedIn doubled in size in all of its major regions including Europe and signed up its millionth UK member in October, making Blighty the largest market outside the US.silicon.com spoke to LinkedIn CEO...
[28 Feb 2008]
Comment And that's the argument and it is a point that we have made to Ofcom. And we are having those discussions with Ofcom on a regular basis because we have to because the discussion has moved on to fibre to the curb.
[21 Feb 2008]
Comment O is for Ofcom O is for Ofcom It also gives bands unprecedented access to accurate and valuable feedback from the music public.silicon.com spoke to founder David Courtier-Dutton to get the lowdown on Slicethepie and how it is taking on the...
[18 Feb 2008]
Comment O is for Ofcom Written at The Atlantic Hotel on the island of Jersey and dispatched via a free wi-fi service that actually needed no password - hurrah for common sense Every year of my life seems to have been challenging for one reason or another.
[20 Dec 2007]
Round-Up According to an Ofcom report we're mad for it. We British may be rubbish at almost all sports, possess terrible dental hygiene and labour under outrageously high taxes, but by God there's one thing we are the best at in Europe - and that's...
[14 Dec 2007]
Comment So now there's an e-petition on the 10 Downing Street website asking the PM "to insist that Ofcom and the ASA [Advertising Standards Authority] stop broadband providers advertising 'unlimited' services that are in fact limited in the small print...
[05 Apr 2007]
Round-Up And in November 2006 Virgin Media had attempted to add ITV to its media empire but hit the considerable roadblock of Sky's 17.9 per cent stake in the terrestrial broadcaster which is now a matter up for discussion at Ofcom and possibly even one...
[02 Mar 2007]
Round-Up Ofcom is currently receiving very high volumes of complaints alleging racism in Celebrity Big Brother 7. This follows a record number of complaints to regulator Ofcom and broadcaster Channel 4 from viewers alleging racist behaviour towards one...
[19 Jan 2007]
Leader Telecoms and media watchdog Ofcom has published research into consumer protection for Brits on the internet. In terms of the former, the UK is doing pretty well - the view of Ofcom, this publication and indeed others.
[21 Jun 2006]
Comment With IP-based telecoms technologies coming into widespread use, Ofcom is playing catch up. As voice services fragment, Ofcom is concerned to make sure consumers are told about limitations to their services.
[14 Mar 2006]
Comment Along with regulator Ofcom, it will have all the powers necessary to deal with a variety of problems on the internet. As a strong believer in accredited self-regulation, I can see value in Ofcom and Soca devolving a range of activities to the...
[13 Mar 2006]
Leader Ofcom has a role to play here. It sounds like a throwback but it's actually a step forward: pay-as-you-go broadband. Yes, it reminds us of the dial-up days before the all-you-can-eat plans took over, when we'd cut short web-surfing sessions to save...
[16 Nov 2005]
Comment The main stumbling block for DVB-H, the superior broadcast technology, is that it requires a new tranche of spectrum to be allocated to it, and Ofcom has so far not recognised the need, or urgency, for doing so.
[06 Oct 2005]
Leader Well, BT has dodged Ofcom's axe once again and given birth to a new network access unit, openreach. To a certain extent, yes - BT has done what Ofcom wanted in order to stop the regulator splitting the telco's Wholesale and Retail arms.
[22 Sep 2005]
Comment Ofcom's own research indicates that businesses think that regulation does hamper negotiation when it comes to big contracts and BT still gains between 40 and 70 per cent of such contracts, depending on the types of services tendered for.
[16 Jun 2005]
Comment This research broadly agrees with Ofcom's and BT's own figures and strongly suggests that the so-called digital divide is something that will remain with us for the foreseeable future, with a hard-core of resistance from parts of the population...
[26 Apr 2005]
Leader Ofcom is being involved too with a request to take broadband to the masses and ensure the whole country has a fast reliable and affordable connection to the internet. But of course Ofcom doesn't own the infrastructure or provide the services so it...
[01 Apr 2005]
Leader The group claims BT still has a 90 per cent "stranglehold" on the non-cable wholesale broadband market despite regulator Ofcom's intervention and that there needs to be a level playing field to ensure Britain has a competitive broadband market.
[29 Nov 2004]
Leader We're not sure but first thing this morning it was assumed that the announcement was timed to douse talk that new super-regulator Ofcom is finally looking at breaking up the telco. Local loop unbundling.
[27 Apr 2004]
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