Category: Regulation

One of the ongoing problems with exchange work has been long queues of work, and not enough staff to do everything.

Ofcom has announced the appointment of Ed Richards as its new Chief Executive Officer.

The UK has now exceeded the 850,000 line total for LLU.

Ofcom has published figures for up to the first quarter of 2006 showing the number of broadband subscribers.

Following complaints by NTL and members of the public, the Advertising Standards Authority (www.asa.org.uk) has this morning published an adjudication against Bulldog Communications regarding its advertising of an "up to 8 meg" Broadband service as part of the "The gate is open" campaign.

Ofcom has considered the issue of migrations between mainly ADSL provides, and has published a set of proposals for a new system.

The Advertising Standards Authority (www.asa.org.uk) has ruled against Virgin.Net on a public complaint regarding a banner advertisement which read "... Get broadband without the commitment. No 12 month contract. £14.99 a month ...". The complaint alleged the advertisement was misleading due to the £50 fee charged if the service was terminated within the first 12 months.

Ofcomm has launched a website to allow comparison of various aspects of telephony providers

Ofcom is consulting the industry on the possibility of increase the power limits for the the 2.4GHz and 5.xGHz licence exempt bands.

After an exchange between BT Wholesale and Ofcom, Ofcom is allowing BT Wholesale an extension of time, before it has to take the same feed of data as all other Openreach customers.