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O2 applies for first UK e-money licence whilst Everything Everywhere and Barclaycard announce contactless payment service

13 February 2011 by Rob Bratby

Mobile money is a recurrent theme for the watcher. See the mobile money overview post and Apple’s incorporation of NFC into iPhone post. As anticipated, …

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Microsoft to rescue Nokia?

11 February 2011 by Rob Bratby

“There is a pertinent story about a man who was working on an oil platform in the North Sea. He woke up one night from …

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‘It is not possible to assess whether Ofcom delivers value for money’ says Public Accounts Committee

10 February 2011 by Rob Bratby

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 …

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FCC approves nine White Space Database Adminstrators

9 February 2011 by Rob Bratby

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 …

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‘Illegal state aid’ challenge to tax levied on BT’s UK fibre network fails in European Court

8 February 2011 by Rob Bratby

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 …

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Ofcom consults on proposals to permit trading of 900, 1800 and 2100 MHz spectrum and to vary 3G licences

2 February 2011 by Rob Bratby

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 …

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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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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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