Fujitsu announces UK FTTH roll-out to 5 million homes
In today’s connected world a lot of what passes for news is more of a rolling update – a snippet of new information that is …
Government policy
UK Government publishes plan for smart meter rollout
Whilst the Watcher was on holiday, the UK’s Department for Energy and Climate Change published a series of documents on 30 March: Smart Metering Implementation …
European Commission tries to marshal stakeholders for World Radiocommunications Conference 2012
The European Commission published on 6 April a Communication on policy objectives for the International Telecommunications Union World Radiocommunications Conference 2012 (WRC 12). WRC 12 is the next quadrennial …
Mobile operators obliged to retain location information across Europe
There has been some coverage recently of the case of Mr Spitz. Malte Spitz is a German green party politician and privacy advocate. He went …
Does it add up: who will pay for network investment?
Today post is a guest post from John Enser and Matt Phillips, and is the executive summary of Chapter 2 (‘Pipes’) of their 2011 Convergence Survey: …
UK to auction 800 MHz and 2.6 GHz spectrum in 2012
Ofcom yesterday started a consultation on the rules for a proposed auction of 250 MHz of spectrum in the 800 MHz (aka ‘digital dividend’) band …
Reform of UK Competition law to lead to flood of merger notifications?
On 16 March the UK’s Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (although as regular readers will know, no longer telecoms) published a consultation on options …
Rules applicable to all UK telecoms operators to change
Last week Ofcom started a consultation on revising the UK’s General Conditions of Entitlement and Universal Service Conditions. The consultation closes on 7 April, and …
‘It is not possible to assess whether Ofcom delivers value for money’ says Public Accounts Committee
The House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts scrutinises the accounts of publicly funded bodies to assess whether those bodies deliver value for money (which …
Regulatory uncertainty casts shadow over otherwise positive results from BT and Vodafone
Positive results out yesterday from both Vodafone and BT. One fact that caught my eye was the news from BT that (for the first time …