Category: Regulation

With the increasing competition in the residential telephone market Ofcom has decided to relax some of its price controls on BT Retail.

As highlighted over the last few days the ruling from the ASA has now been published in full.

The Advertising Standards Authority (www.asa.org.uk) is due to publish its decision on complaints against Carphone Warehouse's TalkTalk service using the claim of providing "Free broadband ...forever".

The Association of Independent Music which represents many independent record labels has suggested that Internet Service Providers should be responsible for the traffic that passes through their network, including the downloading of music and thus reimburse artists and record labels.

Some Tiscali customers complained to the ASA challenging whether Tiscali could provide the full 1Mbps or 2Mbps services.

It seems that after four years of investigations that Ofcom may be about to pass judgement on whether BT abused its dominant position in the UK broadband market.

Local loop unbundling is continuing to increase in its popularity as this months report from the Telecommunications Adjudicator shows.

The current CEO of Ofcom is to step down with effect from 15th October 2006.

The Government has set a deadline for ISPs in the UK to block access to illegal child abuse material by the end of 2007.

E7even is the latest provider to gain the unwanted attention of an Ofcom investigation.