Category: Regulation

Many outlets are announcing the approved Ofcom imposed price changes on BT as signaling a new wave of price reductions, but with changes of just 20p to 40p per month this is unlikely.

Long overdue changes to the migration systems for broadband, which are starting to address the problems of migrating off of full LLU services is to be delayed.

The letter writing campaign that was a core part of the Digital Economy Act is one step closer to starting, after BT and TalkTalk lost an appeal to stop the act forcing them to send letters to customers.

While the UK is still to set it own baseline metrics for judging its superfast broadband progress, Europe is proceeding to ensure it can monitor progress to the longer term 2020 deadline.

IT Pro has highlighted the plight of PIA which for a short while promised access to Openreach ducting and the possibility of a non-BT Group company rolling out fibre to the premises across large parts of the UK.

From the day that funding for Superfast Broadband and a USC was announced under the previous Labour Government, it has been clear that only the larger telco's in the UK stood a chance of major amounts of funding. NextGenUs looks set to challenge the status quo if Cumbria County Council awards the contract to BT.

With the latest court ruling, it seems likely that The Pirate Bay will be the next website to be the subject of a blocking order.

The social networking site NetLog has won an European Court case saying that it cannot be obliged to install a filtering system that actively searches for copyright infringing material.

Further evidence that no new laws are needed to actually get websites blocked is evident today, with Newzbin now to be blocked by TalkTalk.

All forms of media over the last few hundred years have gone through a birthing process, that eventually ends up it being bound up in lots of legal jargon, and the internet is no different.