Category: Regulation

While Ofcom has mandated decreased costs for WLR and MPF line rentals for some time, they have had little effect on the actual retail cost which has been rising, but continued cuts are welcome and more significant cuts are being made to migration charges.

It seems that Sky is pushing the regulator Ofcom to make Openreach open up access to its FTTC service to give the 2nd largest retail provider in the UK more scope for unique products.

The growth of full LLU services has undermined the MAC process for switching providers, and increased the potential for slamming and Ofcom has slowly been working towards a solution with more information expected this summer.

The final 10%, or should that be the final 5% now that more funding has been announced has always been a fluid object, so it will be interesting to here about the outcome from a meeting with Maria Miller, BT and rural providers on 15th July.

With the GEA fibre products from Openreach now some four years old and take-up starting to accelerate Ofcom is moving to try and make migration between providers cheaper to encourage more competition.

The much publicised Online Child Safety summit has now taken place and it appears the outcome is that the four major providers in addition to some funding from Google will be contributing to the work of the IWF and CEOP.

The PIA process to allow Openreach competitors to share ducts and poles has had a troubled past, but with the price set to drop outside of BDUK areas to match the regulated price in the BDUK areas we may start to see increased infrastructure competition in the cities and larger towns.

Some six months after TalkTalk were told off for how they promoted their YouView boxes and subsequently made it available without an activation fee BT Retail has got into trouble for a £49 activation fee.

The debate about how to stop young people from accidentally accessing adult content continues, with the biggest names in the UK Internet industry summoned to tea and biscuits with the DCMS on 17th June.

The issue of how unlimited is used in advertising and whether the imposition of a fair use policy is allowed.