Category: Regulation

The previous attempts to record everyone's web activity failed in the previous Parliament, however a new draft bill has now been published which introduces more limited data retention proposals.

The provisional report on the EE/BT merger is now available with a deadline of January 2016 for concerned people to raise any issues with the current proposal.

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.