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Setting fixed termination rates for all UK operators benchmarked to BT’s cost-orientated termination rates appropriate SMP remedy say Ofcom

27 April 2011 by Rob Bratby

It is a logical quirk of the European telecoms regulatory system that the provision of call termination is a regulated activity for all Communications Providers …

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Europe to review data retention rules

18 April 2011 by Rob Bratby

Readers will recall from the curious case of Mr Spitz that European telecoms operators already retain very large amounts of information about their customers. In an …

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Spectrum, broadband, customer switching and online piracy Ofcom’s telecoms priorities for 2011/12

4 April 2011 by Rob Bratby

I hope all readers noticed the date for Friday’s blog post (taken down on 2 April) and are not planning on bidding in the teleportation …

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Premium rate regulation extended across the value chain from 1 September 2011

30 March 2011 by Rob Bratby

News item topics are like buses – nothing happens for weeks or months, then everything happens at once. Following yesterday’s publication of the Phonepayplus annual …

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Phonepayplus publishes market trends report and 2011/12 plan

29 March 2011 by Rob Bratby

Phonepayplus, the UK’s premium rate services regulator, has today published: a Report on Emerging Trends in the Premium Rate Services Market; and its plan and budget for the …

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Does it add up: who will pay for network investment?

25 March 2011 by Rob Bratby

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: …

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Rise of social media means that successful converged services must appeal to early adopters

17 March 2011 by Rob Bratby

Today saw the launch of the sixth Olswang Convergence Survey: ‘Does it add up’. I may now be able to see rather more of the authors, …

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European Commission refers Spain to European Court over ‘telecoms tax’ and tells them to speed up spectrum refarming implementation

16 March 2011 by Rob Bratby

Hola! As yesterday’s readers will know, I am currently in Madrid working from Olswang’s new Spanish office, soI thought it appropriate to give today’s post …

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Annual renewal of funds for liabilities certification by Code Power operators

10 March 2011 by Rob Bratby

I saw today that Ofcom is consulting on the grant of Code Powers to Gigaclear Limited, and it reminded me that we are fast approaching that …

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‘Ladder pricing’ for calls to 08 numbers: stairway to litigation?

9 March 2011 by Rob Bratby

I have spent the last day and a half in court (British Telecommunications Plc (Termination charges: 080 calls, NCCN 1007) v Office of Communications and British Telecommunications …

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