Category: Regulation

On World Suicide Prevention Day the UK Government has announced a £1.5m research programme, and will step up efforts to educate parents on availability of parental controls.

The much publicised changes to UK planning rules has irked some councils and reactions are starting to appear.

Rules to allow broadband infrastructure to be installed without prior planning permission in more of the UK are likely to see a rise of complaints like this in the local press.

The UK Government is attempting to help kick start the UK economy with changes to planning regulations, and this does not just mean making it easier for home owners to extend their home.

The consultation looking into several options for parental controls on Internet connections in the UK has closed, with it seems a last minute rush of submissions.

The ten week consultation into parental controls ran by the Department of Education had attached over 2,000 responses on the eve of its closure.

With the Governments consultation on parental controls ending today, TalkTalk has published results of its own survey, while also promoting its own voluntary Active Choice parental controls implementation.

Parental controls have been in the news a lot, and are something of a hot political topic, but the ramshackle consultation is now coming to an end on 6th September.

Consumers over the July/August period have been posting ever longer lead times for activation of telephone and broadband services. The latest OTA report confirms this to be the case.

A new MP is in charge at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport so the question is now whether a new boss will result in changes with the direction of the BDUK and Digital Britain.