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: …
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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 …
Rise of social media means that successful converged services must appeal to early adopters
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, …
Ofcom moves to pure LRIC approach for mobile termination rate charge control
Ofcom yesterday announced a forward looking charge control on the UK’s mobile operators which is designed to reduce mobile termination rates to pure LRIC over …
Fresh evidence may be introduced in telecoms appeals
Yesterday the Court of Appeal confirmed (in British Telecommunications Plc v Office of Communications [2011] EWCA Civ 245 , judgment of 10 March 2011) that there was …
Annual renewal of funds for liabilities certification by Code Power operators
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 …
‘Ladder pricing’ for calls to 08 numbers: stairway to litigation?
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 …
Ofcom extends 999/112 investigation by another six months
Ofcom announced yesterday that it was extending for another six months its ‘own-initiative’ investigation into whether communications providers were complying with their obligations under General Condition …
Ofcom proposes prohibition of evergreen customer contracts
Earlier this week I discussed the changes Ofcom are proposing to the General Conditions of Entitlement to implement the revised European Regulatory Framework. It now seems that …