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Ofcom chairman to step down
News Lord David Currie became the inaugural chairman of Ofcom's board in 2002, after the super-regulator was formed out of the ashes of Oftel, the Broadcasting Standards Commission, the Independent Television Commission, the Radio Authority and the...
[June 25, 2008, 12:51]
New Ofcom chief denies cronyism charge
News The newly appointed head of forthcoming super-regulator Ofcom, Lord David Currie, has denied claims from opposition MPs that he was appointed because of his links to the government. Lord Currie rubbished allegations of cronyism on Thursday, and...
[July 26, 2002, 16:23]
Government announces Ofcom head
News The government announced on Thursday that Lord David Currie will be the first chairman of Ofcom. Lord Currie, a Labour peer in the House of Lords, will be paid £133,000 per year in return for working up to four days per week.
[July 25, 2002, 12:28]
Netscape feared MS would kill merger
News Currie, who appeared before attorneys from both sides in the ongoing Microsoft antitrust trial, said, "We did wonder if AOL, by acquiring Netscape, would secure the animus of Microsoft .if AOL got weak-kneed or cold feet, the deal could vanish.
[April 29, 1999, 9:51]
Ofcom puts businesses centre stage
News Speaking at the annual conference of the Communications Management Association (CMA), a representative body for business comms users, Lord Currie said there was a widely held misconception that Ofcom was interested only in benefitting consumers.
[February 8, 2007, 7:52]
Ex-Oftel chief quits Ofcom early
News Lord Currie, chairman of Ofcom, said in a statement that Edmonds had "made a significant contribution to the sector through some of its most formative years. Oftel had a very civil service-like mentality, while Currie and [Stephen] Carter [Ofcom...
[December 10, 2004, 12:00]
ISPs fear greater Net regulation
News Lord Currie, Ofcom chairman, told the forum that it was important to strike a balance between taking action to protect people and trusting them to judge and address dangers themselves. But while Lord Currie applauded the UK ISP sector for its track...
[January 27, 2005, 15:35]
Ofcom pours cold water on fibre in the local loop
News Delivering a keynote speech at the CMA's annual conference on Wednesday, the regulator's chairman, Lord Currie said: "For customers who live too far from an exchange, technically this is a problem that could be solved by fibre.
[February 9, 2007, 12:28]
Broadband TV could spark tighter Web controls
News Peacock's comments echoed an earlier speech given by Ofcom chairman David Currie to the Royal Television Society in October. Currie said that the UK's technological landscape, with fixed-line broadband, mobility and storage all buoyant, had massive...
[December 6, 2004, 11:15]
Bill Gates' grip on UK media 'is slipping'
News Third on the list was Lord Currie, the chairman of Ofcom, which will replace five existing regulators including Oftel and the Radiocommunications Agency. Lord Currie will soon be facing tricky issues such as the rollout of broadband, and the...
[July 7, 2003, 13:02]
SmartDraw Healthcare Edition Saves Medical Tutor and PhD Student Hundreds of Hours
White Papers Helen Currie, who runs Perth GamPrep-GAMSAT Preparation Courses for medical students while she studies for her PhD at the University of Western Australia in Perth found herself spending hours creating medical and science diagrams by hand for...
[April 15, 2009, 1:22]
Startup Spotlight: Tots get wired with atkidz.com
News We feel we're doing too much in some ways, but we can't compromise the children's safety," says Paul Currie, chief executive of atkidz.com. Currie acknowledges that this prevents their audience from making pen-pals online, but has found the...
[November 29, 2000, 11:28]
Edinburgh Pocket A-Z map
Downloads The map covers an area of Edinburgh, extending to Cramond, Granton, Leith, Portobello, Musselburgh, Whitecraig, Dalkeith, Bonnyrigg (part), Loanhead, Fairmilehead, Juniper Green, Currie, Balerno, and Edinburgh Airport.
[June 1, 2004, 8:00]
Netscape posts another solid quarter
News In a conference call with reporters, Chief Administrative Officer Peter Currie said he was comfortable with Wall Street expectations that the company will report sales in the fourth quarter of between the high $150 million to low $160 million mark.
[October 22, 1997, 13:57]
BT break-up back under the spotlight
News But in 2002 Lord Currie, now head of Ofcom, wrote a report that said "careful consideration" should be given to separating BT, which led to speculation that Ofcom could take this drastic step. Ofcom is considering whether the break-up of BT would...
[April 28, 2004, 11:10]
A Year Ago: Netscape posts another solid quarter
News In a conference call with reporters, Chief Administrative Officer Peter Currie said he was comfortable with Wall Street expectations that the company will report sales in the fourth quarter of between the high $150 million to low $160 million mark.
[October 22, 1998, 6:15]
Ofcom chief executive quits
News A spokesperson for Ofcom told ZDNet UK that "continuity and an orderly transition" to the next chief executive would be aided by the fact that the body's chairman, Lord Currie, was recently reappointed until 2009.
[May 26, 2006, 12:30]
RSA Conference puts security in the spotlight
News Ofcom's chairman Lord Currie is due to embrace the conference with a Wednesday lunchtime keynote, and issues such as fixed-mobile convergence and next-generation telecoms networks will also come under scrutiny.
[February 5, 2007, 11:48]
Break-up calls leave BT unmoved
News Lord Currie, the head of Ofcom, wrote a report earlier this year that said that "careful consideration" should be given to separating BT. BT has brushed off claims that it should be broken up to prevent it dominating Broadband Britain through its...
[November 4, 2002, 12:48]
More calls for BT's break-up
News BT denies these charges, and insists that break-up is neither necessary nor desirable, but the idea is understood to be popular with a number of influential MPs, and possibly even Lord Currie, the new chairman of Ofcom, who wrote a report earlier...
[September 17, 2002, 13:24]
