Category: Regulation

The UK could be heading towards a more liberal environment in terms of personal use of copyrighted media, learning (or is that copying) from US rules on copyright.

Ofcom are pressing communications providers to improve their processes for issuing refunds to customers following data which suggests over £10 million has gone unclaimed from consumers who have left their previous provider.

The Government has announced in its spending review that the BBC is to contribute to £530m to be spent on broadband over the next four years.

The former head of Warner Music argues that record labels need to seriously slash the prices of albums in an effort to reduce the level of piracy for music albums.

The scale of the price changes from the recent ruling against Openreach have now been revealed with Ofcom releasing revised Charge Controls.

Irishing ISP UPC has won a major legal battle against record labels which will see it not need to implement a three-strike policy to notify and disconnect users who participate in illegal file sharing.

The broadband timewarp engine has moved forward to 2003, with Ofcom now looking to try and increase competition for Next Generation services in the same way it did for first generation broadband, which saw the low prices of LLU drive take-up.

The Telecommunications Adjudicator update for September reveals that with some 7.14 million unbundled lines, the proportion of fully unbundled lines is exceeding that of shared LLU.

The recent data leaks from ACS:Law and ongoing debate amongst broadband users of how copyright infringement is currently handled are once more back in the spotlight.

The European Commission is planning court action over the UK's failings to implement specific European Laws with regards to ePrivacy and Data Protection