Category: Regulation

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.

Ofcom published a consultation into the WLR and LLU markets in March 2011, it has published a further consultation building on the feedback from communication providers.

Geo perhaps most well known for the FibreSpeed backbone project in North Wales has indicated that it will not be seeking to bid for BDUK projects.