UK telecoms regulation, Ofcom, General Conditions, numbering, spectrum, switching, enforcement
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 last night by a story in the Financial Times this morning reporting analyst speculation that in the wake of the approvals of 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. Over the festive break I was musing on the broad benefits on getting the populations of developing countries connected. Amongst the barriers hindering ‘in-country’ network roll-out are…
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. Before Christmas, this blog flagged that last-mile fibre access (also know as next generation access, or NGA) was a commercial and regulatory issue that would be high on…
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. Whilst it is very tempting to blog about the new government’s reconsideration of the Bribery Act announced yesterday (and if you are not aware of this, you…
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. Have you ever used an international calling card? If you have, perhaps it was at a time when you didn’t have a fixed address, or were…
I get a regular selection of recent corporate finance deal activity summaries in my email. Last week, I got one from Regent. Their view was that with the exception of a dip in August, valuation multiples in the European TMT sector have steadily edged upwards over the year, with: price / earning at 16 (as…
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 7 January the UK’s Department for Business, Innovation and Skills published a ‘call for evidence’ relating to principles of economic regulation. As those who have…
Sadly I’ve not been in Las Vegas at CES, but remained at my desk in London reading the various updates. As the dust starts to settle it seems that tablets are the story of this year’s show. Not having had the opportunity to personally play with any shiny new toys, I am not in a…
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. Ofcom permits 2G spectrum refarming Ofcom yesterday varied the spectrum licences of the UK’s three 2G spectrum licensees (EverythingEverywhere (JV between Orange and T-Mobile), Vodafone and O2) to permit them to use those…
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. There has been a lot of discussion this week of BT’s wholesale content connect product, so I thought it would be helpful to unpack the story…
I’m very excited to have had my first re-tweet, so today’s post develops the thought further. The retweet was of an economist article which, in contrast to the emerging consensus that traditional telephone calls are dead quotes a recent Ofcom international research report as evidence that whilst fixed line volumes are declining across the world,…
This article was published in December 2010 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. I write today’s blog from sunny Switzerland. The news seems rather slow and I can’t bear to write a top ten lists of things that either…