Category: Regulation

Rory Cellan-Jones in an exclusive for the BBC has uncovered details of email blocking by the charity that acts as the clearing house for Virgin Media business connectivity for schools across London.

Sky is continuing its pressure to try and force the regulators hand to create a separate Openreach and one where the vision of Gigabit connectivity is central to the operator.

After some confusion in the Matt Warman MP debate on broadband in the House of Commons on the 12th October about what the USC and USO targets are, Ed Vaizey MP in the final replies for the Government indicated that the new USO may be going beyond widely expected 5 Mbps.

The majority of the big players have gone public with their submissions to the Ofcom Market Review so no surprise to see BT issuing a press release on theirs.

The announcements by the BT Group on what it believes it can achieve with if given some regulatory stability was announced today, but Sky has responded in a way that it best summed up as 'not good enough'.

It is interesting to see Sky taking an interest in rural broadband affairs after many years when even over the old copper networks the provider seemed more interested in the dense urban environment and still is with its CityFibre Joint Venture.

Until some time after Ofcom issues its once a decade review of what to do with BT and the UK Telco infrastructure we expect to see continued posturing from all sides.

The voices circling around the damaged Openreach continue to cry for the split of Openreach away from BT.

The NBN plan in Australia was for a short while a template for a dream, but was then watered down and it appears as more time is spent on costing out the plan the cost is continually going up.

Ofcom is trying to improve information on mobile coverage, but we thought they had a system previously for checking this, maybe the new system is better.