Category: Regulation

With on-demand TV becoming the big driver for broadband it was only a matter of time before the ASA looked at the claims and compared them to the usage allowances offered.

The issue of not knowing where the areas without superfast broadband will be has been the cause celeb of various broadband bloggers, and there is a sense of measured reality in the latest presentations from the DCMS.

The way of words between the major providers in advertising continues, with Sky falling foul of the ASA in how it has compared its services with Virgin Media.

The UK broadband landscape may not please everyone, but compared to many countries the choice to the consumer and SME at the retail level is unparalleled and the latest figures from the Telecoms Adjudicator reflect this.

The Public Accounts Committee has influenced a lot of the commentary from politicians and campaigners in the last two months and the full report has now been published.

No one will deny that the really rural areas of the UK could benefit from better broadband, the real debate is over who pays for it and what time scale. The Labour Conference will be announcing £75m of extra funding for rural areas.

While the BT adverts on TV might be cringeworthy and bear no relation to the lifestyle those of us who went to University years ago remember, in the world of advertising they are not that unusual. The ASA though has ruled against some of the sequences and in particular the impression given for upload speeds.

Ofcom is trying to broaden its information base for consumers by publishing more information on traffic management, a decade after it began being an issue for consumers.

The UK is far from perfect in the broadband sense, but the EU appears intent on creating a common market with uniform pricing across Europe for wholesale broadband access.

Ofcom announced the next round of its proposed price controls for 2014 to 2017 in July, but has issued a correction due to some errors in how they calculated the proposed prices.