Category: Regulation

The original Migration Authorisation Code system worked well when most people used a single wholesaler, but the technology mix for telephone and broadband across the UK means that an improved system is overdue.

The popularity of LLU continues to grow, adding almost half a million lines since May 2011 to reach 8,000,200 lines at the end January 2012.

Ofcom has published what is one of the closest things to a baseline on which the various BDUK projects can be judged, with a local authority speed and availability map of the United Kingdom.

The average speed in the UK for broadband has risen some 0.8 Mbps to 7.6 Mbps at the end of November 2011 according to Ofcom research.

Megaupload was just one of a number of web based file sharing websites, but it is the latest casualty in the way being waged to protect perceived loses by the media industry.

Local authorities around the UK that have not submitted their broadband plan for access to BDUK funds have just six weeks to get their paperwork in order and the plan lodged with the BDUK.

Most coverage questioning whether the UK will be the best in Europe with respect to broadband uses the simple metric of where the UK stands in various speed league tables, but the measurement system the UK will us is more complex.

Andrew Crossley the solicitor behind ACS Law has been fined and suspended for two years by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.

Ofcom has looked at the big telecoms providers and published the latest levels of complaints received by Ofcom.

The pace of progress towards Scotland tendering for a company to head up plans to provide superfast broadband across large areas of Scotland appears to be annoying BT.