Category: Regulation

Virgin Media is losing out to BT Retail in terms of broadband market share according to Ofcom data.

Ofcom has released a consultation today on the introduction of GSM and GPRS based mobiles services on aircraft that are registered in the UK.

The European Union looks set to act on the broadband digital divide that is widening across the EU countries.

France Telecom has been fined for the way it abused its dominant market position in 2001 and 2002.

Be Unlimited has caused a stir with some users who have reported the inability to access some websites hosted by Lycos. It appears that the cause has been Be's implementation of blocking access to child abuse images based on a list published by the Internet Watch Foundation.

The Ofcom Consumer Panel Chairman has written a letter to the top six largest broadband service providers to ask them to provide clearer information to consumers about the speeds they should expect to receive on their broadband service.

The number of unbundled lines continues to rise, but repair processes and migrations away from fully unbundled lines are still lagging.

Ofcom (www.ofcom.org.uk) has this morning published a consultation document on the future of broadband regulation in next generation access networks in light of the increasing interest in new technologies requiring significant investment to meet the increasing demands for bandwidth.

Ofcom has released a consultation on the liberalisation of the 900MHz and 1800MHz radio spectrum, currently used by mobile operators for 2G GSM services, to be redployed particularly to encourage mobile broadband growth.

The OTA has published its state of play for August 2007, revealing 2.997 million unbundled LLU lines.