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OFT To Shake Up Government IT Spending
News In what could lead to a wide-ranging shake-up of government purchasing processes, the Office of Fair Trading has launched an economic analysis of government procurement and the affects it has on competition and innovation.
[February 6, 2004, 16:55]
Becta Takes Microsoft To The OFT
News Becta, the UK government's adviser on IT in schools, has taken Microsoft to the Office of Fair Trading over anti-competitive practices — but open-source campaigners say Becta is still effectively promoting Microsoft.
[October 19, 2007, 16:44]
Online Shopping Still Causes Security Fears
News Businesses are still not doing enough to soothe consumer fears about buying online, says the Office of Fair Trading. In its latest market report into internet shopping, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) said shoppers still have significant worries...
[June 20, 2007, 9:35]
How The E-commerce Directive Affects Your Business
News The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is understood to have launched another crackdown on sites which fail to comply with distance selling legislation, so businesses ignore the new measures at their peril.
[October 20, 2002, 21:11]
E-commerce Sites Open To Legal Attack
News The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) recently carried out a "mystery surf" of 637 UK Web retailers. Failure to tell consumers about their right to cancel and to a full refund is a breach of the new Distance Selling Regulations and something which must...
[March 14, 2001, 16:11]
BBC Internet Services Labelled Anti-competitive
News BIPA co-ordinator Angela Mills wants the Office of Fair Trading to investigate the BBC. We think the Office of Fair Trading needs to look at what the BBC is doing. The Office of Fair Trading has never brought a challenge to us or questioned that we...
[November 24, 1999, 14:22]
Dixons Invites Pricing Investigation
News On Sunday, Peter Mandelson secretary of state for Trade and Industry told the Mail on Sunday that he will write to John Bridgeman, director-general of the Office of Fair Trading, expressing concern about Dixons' computer prices.
[November 24, 1998, 9:16]
OFT Can't Cope With Internet Scams
News The Office of Fair Trading has admitted that it does not have the technical expertise to deal with internet criminals. Mike Haley, head of the OFT Scambusters team, said on Wednesday that his team's expertise lay in dealing with "real world...
[January 25, 2007, 11:32]
OFT Raps Dell's Knuckles Over Contract Terms
News The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has negotiated changes to Dell's sales contracts, after a large number of consumer complaints over terms and conditions. The OFT received advice from Consumer Direct and Trading Standards of a large number of...
[July 7, 2006, 15:15]
OFT: Printer Firms Have Started Cleaning Up Their Act
News Businesses and consumes who buy IT equipment such as printers are getting a fairer deal than three years ago, according to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT). Complaints to Trading Standards Services about IT purchases have dropped by almost 50...
[December 20, 2005, 16:05]
News Burst: OFT Highlights "lawbreaking" Internet Traders
News The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) warned consumers on Tuesday that many e-commerce Web sites may be breaking the law. The OFT recently carried out a "mystery surf" of 637 Web retailers. Caroline Banks, director of consumer affairs at the OFT, said...
[March 13, 2001, 9:45]
US Spam Scams Slammed
News The UK's Office of Fair Trading (OFT), which is leading a coordinated "Internet sweep" for people who send spam scams and host fraudulent Web sites, has come up with some alarming results. In the UK, the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit, the Home Office...
[February 24, 2005, 14:50]
OFT Clamps Down On Domain Name Scheme
News The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has clamped down on an individual who it says used misleading sales tactics to persuade companies to register a new domain name, following numerous complaints from businesses.
[January 5, 2005, 16:25]
Transatlantic Anti-spam Alliance Mooted
News Although the initiative represents the latest in a string of events discussing the problem of spam, which to date have yielded little result and little agreement on the best approach, John Vickers, chairman of the Office of Fair Trading, who is...
[October 11, 2004, 12:55]
BT Hoovers Up Broadband Punters With 'free' Flights
Talkback The ASA has asked the Office Of Fair Trading to consider taking legal action against Fones4Free.com which is running a "free" flights promotion on its website despite being asked on the grounds that it is misleading.
[January 12, 2005, 12:32]
OFT Gains Powers To Seize Spammers' PCs
News The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) will gain the power to seize computer equipment it suspects is being used to perpetrate cross-border internet scams, the OFT has told ZDNet UK. We could set up a dedicated unit [to investigate electronic scams], or...
[February 28, 2007, 15:13]
BT's Free Flights Offer Hits Turbulence
Talkback i was promised free 2 days in NEW YORK 2nd jan 2005, but they have done a runner, nothing to confirm flight or hotel, passing you to mkm and they dont even answer e mails, these two firms want shutting down by the office of fair trading and the...
[December 8, 2004, 14:50]
OFT Plans Crackdown On PC Makers And ISPs
News The Office of Fair Trading is to begin investigating home PC suppliers and Internet service providers to explore whether the needs of customers are being properly served. If a study reveals the need for further investigation or action under any of...
[October 4, 2001, 13:55]
Online Retailers Rapped Over Unfair Contracts
News Computer supplier Micro Anvika is among a dozen online retailers to have stopped including what the Office of Fair Trading called "unfair terms" in the contracts they formed with their customers. All 12 companies are understood to have ceased to...
[June 13, 2003, 16:38]
BBC Accused Of Anti-competitive Practice Online
News ITV is preparing a report for the Office of Fair Trading, which could result in the BBC governors being brought to court. ITN is also considering talks with the EC's competition regulators because the BBC have been "breaking their own fair trading...
[July 18, 2000, 9:58]
