Category: Regulation

Ofcom has published its judgment on a complaint about the Bulldog Terms and Conditions that was lodged in October 2004.

Ofcom has issued an update on LLU, which shows that by the end of January 2005 there were 31,000 unbundled lines.

Ofcom has published its first update of 2005, revealing the UK has over six million broadband connections.

The Advertising Standards Authority (www.asa.org.uk) is the organisation responsible for dealing with complaints regarding certain types of advertising such as press advertisements. It was asked by BT and members of the public to look into an advertisement from Telewest Broadband (blueyonder) which made several comparisons about its 256 Kbps service to BT Broadband's 512 Kbps service.

Ben Verwaayen has been talking to The Sunday Times about what he feels may transpire in the current UK broadband market place.

In what almost seems a news item from a dream, MPs are set to review the big 12 month long Ofcom review of UK Telecoms.

The United Kingdom Internet Forum (certainly a better name than UK Internet Federation) has announced that Dr. Willie Black who just stepped down as Executive Chairman of Nominet UK has become its first chairman. The unofficial group sprung up as smaller ISPs started to voice their concerns at BT's price increases on the IPstream Office range of products and it is now taking its position as a campaigning organisation.

Ofcom has announced the connection and on-going rental charges for wholesale Local Loop Unbundling (LLU) services that have arisen from the consultation that took place earlier this year. These prices are due to come into effect on 1 January 2005. The connection charges are being reduced both for fully unbundled lines where the copper pair is given by BT to another operator as a whole and partially unbundled 'shared access' lines where BT provides telephone services but provides unbundling of broadband service to another operator.

Ofcoms second part of its great broadband market review is on the way, but the fall-out from the the MST is still continuing.

Sir George Young increases the pressure on Ofcom by pushing for urgent answers to ISPs questions.