Category: Regulation

The UK tried to break the stranglehold of BT when the original cable franchises were handed out and the next big step was the LLU explosion in 2006. The next step that is the full fibre dream is underway and to try and give competitors some breathing space Ofcom is proposing restrictions on how flexible FTTC and G.fast pricing can be.

After a long wait a final decision has been arrived at on how consumer broadband advertising needs to change in terms of what speeds are shown, and while the median speed is what most expected the inclusion of peak period will make the next few months interesting.

The days of having to plead for compensation to make up for long outages due to faults or missed appointments and delays to installs are set to end now that an automatic compensation has been agreed.

Openreach has been talking about the responses to its full fibre consultation and this raises wide ranging questions about the UK broadband market and what Government and regulators want to do or whether to stand back and let the battle commence.

Hyperoptic is the latest provider to fall foul of the ASA after one complaint about a leaflet has led to a ruling that an advert must not be used again in its current form.

The online world suffers from all the foibles of real life but the persistence of online content and circle of contacts that runs into the billions can have the unfortunate effect of amplifying negative content. Into this maelstrom the UK Government has announced an Internet Safety Green Paper to make the UK the safest place online.

With the push by the Government to push the UK from being a little fibre Britain to a big fibre Britain a renewed investigation by the EU into the existing business rates regime comes at a bad time.

Ofcom has announced a set of proposals that will strengthen the Broadband Speeds Code of Practice and extend things like peak and off-peak speeds to operators like Virgin Media and others.

The Competition Markets Authority has published its report on comparison tools and this means its time to highlight some of the nice tweaks we have compared to even some of the approved comparison sites.

Ofcom is firmly wearing its consumer protection hard hat today with its latest changes to the General Conditions that telephone and broadband services in the UK operate under.