Category: Regulation

The Digital Economy Act places internet providers a requirement to pass on notification letters of copyright infringement. The DEA supports an appeals process, but there is some debate other whether this should be free, or incur a cost to stop frivolous appeals.

The price of broadband for those who can only receive up to 8Meg products look set to receive a 12% reduction in price at the wholesale level following adjustments to wholesale charge controls by Ofcom.

Ofcom have released a broadband map to show data required to be released by the Digital Economy Act. It includes broadband take-up and average broadband sync speeds along with an estimate of numbers unable to receive broadband faster than 2Mbps.

Ed Vaizey has re-iterated the need for site blocking to stop people accessing illegal content online but still favours a light-touch approach to regulation, hoping that industry will provide a solution.

The latest update from the Office of the Telecommunications Regulator has pointed to a decline in LLU numbers for the first time in several years with the last few months indicating we may have plateaued.

The Prime Minister has backed a report which could recommends that ISPs should block access to adult material online unless the customer has opted in to receiving it.

Ofcom have launched a consultation into the coexistence of next generation mobile broadband such as LTE with digital terrestrial TV.

A confidential document from the European Commission is proposing that ISPs should help enforce copyright infringement.

The UK has been set ambitious targets of delivering 25Mbps super-fast broadband to 90% of the country by 2015, a timescale that may prove tough to reach.

Ofcom are seeking consumer responses to reasons why they have received unexpectedly high bills, known as 'bill shock'.