Category: Regulation

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'.

TalkTalk have received the most complaints about their broadband and telephone services according to a report from Ofcom which ranked Virgin Media as the best.

ISPs BT and TalkTalk have had their Judicial Review against the Digital Economy Act mostly dismissed as the judge only partially granted one of the five grounds of complaint.