Category: Regulation

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.

Battery backup has in the UK being under discussion for some time, and to date has resulted in existing copper networks being left in place for lifeline services.

It appears Sky is complying with a court order asking it to block access to the Newzbin website.

It comes as no shock to most people, that people when buying a utility like broadband look towards the best value service, that they believe will meet their needs. Thus in countries like Japan which has had fibre and a tech driven society for years take-up is high.

Ofcom is often seen as disconnected from the general public, and in January 2012 there will be meetings in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland where there will be a chance to discuss Ofcom's approach to all the areas it covers.

The European Court of Justice has ruled that ISPs cannot be forced to implement filtering on their network to block access to illegal file sharing sites

Ofcom has set out a variety of steps that providers should provide to help build on the previous key facts indicator system.