UK telecoms regulation, Ofcom, General Conditions, numbering, spectrum, switching, enforcement
This article was published in February 2011 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. In some areas, it seems that Europe is always following the US. One of those areas is white space cognitive radio. Whilst European and UK regulators seem…
This article was published in February 2011 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. In a decision dated 21 January, but only released this week, the EU’s General Court in Luxembourg has dismissed Vtesse’s appeal against a decision of the…
This article was published in February 2011 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. Ofcom today published proposals for consultation to: make 900, 1800 and 2100 MHz public wireless network licences tradable; and vary the terms of existing 2100 MHz…
This article was published in February 2011 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. 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 considers…
This article was published in February 2011 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. 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 were…
This article was published in January 2011 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. 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 equity…
This article was published in January 2011 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. 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, funding…
This article was published in January 2011 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. 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 of…
This article was published in January 2011 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. 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 the…
This article was published in January 2011 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. 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 unlicensed…
This article was published in January 2011 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. 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 forgiven…
This article was published in January 2011 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. 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 do…