Category: Regulation

The Crown Prosecution service will not be pursuing a case against BT or Phorm over trials the company took which were believed to be in breach of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act.

Otelo, one of the alternative dispute resolution schemes approved by Ofcom has rebranded to 'Ombudsman Services: Communications'.

Ofcom has announced a consultation with the aim of introducing new controls which would result in lower wholesale broadband and telephone line rental prices from Openreach.

Spectrum auctions for the 800MHz and 2.6GHz bands are to take place early next year with licenses to be valid from January 2013.

The UK's Digital Economy Act will not come in to force until at least spring 2012, although the judicial review to take place this week could delay this further.

A debate arranged by the government to thrash out concerns about net neutrality has seen broadband providers holding fast over their right to run their networks in a way that best suits them

Ofcom are proposing a change that will stop phone and broadband providers from automatically renewing contracts for another 12 or 18 months at the end of the initial contract term period.

The ASA have upheld complaints by BT and Plusnet about a TalkTalk regional press advert.

Ofcom has this morning released findings of its broadband speeds research showing that in the last two months of 2010, the average UK broadband speed increased to 6.2Mbps which compares with the average advertised speed of 13.8Mbps. Again, Virgin Media's broadband service comes out on top for delivering the promised speeds.

The communications consumer panel have called for a ban in the use of 'up-to' phrasing in broadband advertising instead favouring single speed qualified by an estimate of the number of users who can achieve this.