Category: Regulation

The concerns over three big providers entering into a partnership with Phorm continues.

Ofcom plans to introduce new regulation that will require communications providers to be more transparent on hidden and extra charges. The proposals are aimed at the various services under its remit, including fixed voice, mobile, broadband and pay TV.

Given the level of noise from industry about the need to move on and embrace true next generation technologies it comes as little surprise the government is to carry out a review.

The government is to impose legal sanctions on ISPs by April 2009 if they do not take action against piracy on the Internet.

Two people in Berwick were arrested for unauthorised use of a wireless network.

The data from Ofcom suggests the number of complaints over migrations are dropping.

The collapse of an agreement between the BPI and Tiscali that would see the BPI providing details of copyright infringers and Tiscali warning customers and eventually suspending their service does not bode well for the the media and broadband industry reaching a working agreement.

The EU Telecoms regulator has given the go ahead for a big stack of rules governing broadband supply in parts of the UK to be dropped.

The migration rules governing moving between broadband providers came into force on Valentine's Day 2007.

In a leaked document, the government is considering a three-strikes policy forcing Internet Service Providers to disconnect users found to be downloading pirated music or film online.