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Net neutrality – what’s behind the headlines
Friday, August 13th, 2010A few months back, the prospect of policy focus falling on net neutrality in the UK provoked some apprehension. The issue had failed to provoke the intensity of debate seen in other markets such as the U.S. and there was a sense from some that this was an “American disease we didn’t want to catch”.
Fast [...]
Ofcom the best regulator in Europe?
Thursday, January 29th, 2009While we wait for the publication of the government’s interim Digital Britain Report, the annual ECTA (European Competitive Telecommunications Association) Regulatory Scorecard was released yesterday, and as last year Ofcom scored the highest of all European NRAs.
Ofcom generally scored strongly in most areas. However, for economic market conditions for broadband, Ofcom ranked as ‘neutral’, rather [...]
The broadband vision
Monday, October 27th, 2008As someone who spends a lot of his time discussing the importance and value of broadband, in all of its forms, to the economy and wider society I’m struck by how few manage to articulate a worthy vision for the impact of broadband.
A recent example of this was Ofcom’s timid attempt at a vision in [...]
Through the looking glass? What lies within Ofcom’s Comms Market Report?
Monday, August 18th, 2008Last week saw the publication of what has become a bit of a bible in the TMT sector – Ofcom’s Communications Market Report for 2008.
Perhaps some of you who are more diligent than me and have worked through the 2inch thick report by now, may have more detailed views, which I would certainly be interested [...]
One small step from BT, one giant leap from Virgin Media?
Friday, August 8th, 2008Virgin Media’s statement today that it could be offering broadband speeds of 200Mbps by 2012 certainly puts the cats amongst the pidgeons in the ever noisier debate surrounding next generation broadband.
Last month, BT announced that it would invest £1.5bn to bring next generation broadband to 10 million homes by 2012. The speeds that would be [...]