Category: Regulation

Ofcom has published its proposal to set a figure of £81.85 as the top price BT can charge for a fully unbundled line per year.

Peter Black who is the man referring the contest that is the UK LLU market, is reporting that the UK has around 90,000 unbundled lines.

For the last week the news story about a person being fined £500 for accessing an unprotected wireless network has been attracting a lot of attention.

Alternative Dispute Resolution Schemes (ADR) are intended to provide an independent path for the resolution of complaints with service providers. Ofcom is proposing tightening up on this area with service providers.

Ofcom has presented its annual lecture entitled "Trends in Television, Radio and Telecoms" - The Future of Evolution of Television, Radio and Telecoms.

Naked DSL, as in the ability to buy a DSL service, without having to pay line rental to the line provider is on the cards again, courtesy of Vonage.

Ofcom has published another batch of documents outlining the progress in the communications markets of the United Kingdom up until the end of 2004.

Another update from Ofcom this time looking at the issue of Broadband 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.