Category: Regulation

BT and Ofcom have agreed on new regulation policies that should bring more equality of access to the wholesale market. Six objectives have been set out that should encourage competition, increase the services offered, and lower the cost to the consumer.

The topic of whether BT should be split into several companies has raged on. The ISPA has thrown its comments into the ring, saying it believes Ofcom can achieve equality of access to BT's networks without splitting BT into different companies.

The Select Committee on Trade and Industry has published its report into the ongoing review of the UK Telecommunications market by Ofcom.

Friday 1st April 2005 saw the latest update from the Office of the Telecoms Adjudicator on how the LLU processes are progressing in the UK.

Ofcom has published a summary and the non-confidential submissions from its consultation phase of its Strategic Telecommunications Review.

The OTA has announced that Bulldog have withdrawn a complaint over terms and conditions for fault repair on BT LLU circuits.

ZDNet has run a news item with comment from Tiscali raising the issue that they feel BT is too secretive about its 21st Century Network plans.

Bulldog (and other LLU providers) have been trying to get a parity of service levels from the BT Group for sometime now on LLU products. The Office of the Telecoms Adjudicator has now started an investigation into this.

The Advertising Standards Authority has published its ruling on a complaint made about Bulldog in the summer of 2004.

Many people are only just becoming aware of the impact of CBC pricing, particularly now as service providers introduce various fair usage or hard cap systems.