Category: Regulation

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.

Will the UK be facing a superfast digital divide by 2015? And will it fail to reach the EU 2020 target?

The old Digital Economy Act was going to result in a letter writing campaign, but it seems even without the DEA, copyright holders are engaging in a letter writing campaign to the providers.

Ed Richards has given a speech at the Total Telecom World Conference where he outlined Ofcoms approach to developing superfast broadband in the UK.

It was expected that the blocking of Newzbin would be the signal for further copyright holders to request blocks and we are now seeing record labels requesting a block of The Pirate Bay.

The costs for blocking Newzbin for BT Retail products and the time scale for when it should start are now known after a ruling from the High Court.

Plusnet omitted to mention the differential pricing across the UK that it offers in a recent radio advert.

It looks as if the ASA has been doing its reading up on broadband issues as a new adjudication against Virgin Media would probably have slipped through as OK a couple of years ago.

While the publication of the 65 page Delivery Model carries very few surprises for those following the march of Digital Britain, it does put more of the talk down into black and white print.