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Rob Bratby

Rob Bratby provides expert legal, regulatory and transactional advice in the telecoms, digital and data sectors.

UK Government asks Ofcom to assess practicality of blocking copyright infringing web-sites

1 February 2011 by Rob Bratby

Jeremy Hunt, the UK’s Culture Secretary (who also has responsibility for telecoms) today asked Ofcom to review sections of the Digital Economy Act to assess whether it …

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Mobile operators to acquire more fixed assets in 2011?

1 February 2011 by Rob Bratby

Any twitter followers (to follow go to: @rbratby) may have seen my live tweet commentary from the AnalysysMason city briefing last night. I thought the four speakers …

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UK wholesale broadband access proposed charge control: Ofcom estimates BT’s weighted average cost of capital downwards to between 8.5% and 10%

31 January 2011 by Rob Bratby

Ten days ago Ofcom published a lengthy consultation on charge control for Wholesale Broadband Access, accompanied by a report from the Brattle Group on BT’s …

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LinkedIn announces first social media IPO of 2011: dot.com hype or sustainable business model?

28 January 2011 by Rob Bratby

It is a sign of the changing times that I learnt about LinkedIn’s IPO through twitter last night, and that LinkedIn itself blogged about it.  Seasoned …

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Funding content, funding networks: what matters?

27 January 2011 by Rob Bratby

On 16 February we will be hosting an event for the UK Chapter of the International Institute of Communications. The event’s title is ‘Funding content, …

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Will Apple’s move into NFC mobile payment reshape industry alliances?

26 January 2011 by Rob Bratby

My eye was caught today by a story on TechCrunch (an excellent blog BTW) that Apple may incorporate near field communications technology (NFC) into its next generation …

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Smart meters: intelligently connecting to a lower carbon future

25 January 2011 by Rob Bratby

I am awaiting with interest the response of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and Ofgem to their consultation on implementing smart metering in …

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Cognitive radio: the road to mobile broadband delivery, or the path to anarchic interference?

24 January 2011 by Rob Bratby

For those who are not familiar with the term, cognitive radio (also sometimes described as white-space radio) describes a way of using radio spectrum in which …

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UK telecoms policy moves government department as proposals for new Communications Act announced

23 January 2011 by Rob Bratby

In a week of Westminster resignations, with Andy Coulson accused of condoning mobile voicemail hacking and Ed Balls taking over as Chancellor you may be …

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Mobile broadband event: net neutrality, mobile content, network capacity and handsets

21 January 2011 by Rob Bratby

Regular blog readers will know that I hosted a mobile data event for Cambridge Wireless yesterday. I found the event thought-provoking. For those on twitter, I attempted …

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