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Regulator considers VoIP phone numbers
News The UK's telecoms regulator is considering issuing ranges of telephone numbers to voice and video services carried over the Internet. Oftel will launch a consultation paper on the future of the 05 prefix later this month, and will consider...
[April 2, 2002, 13:12]
Regulator wants cheaper fixed-line-to-mobile calls
News Calls from fixed lines to mobiles could become cheaper if proposals by the telecoms regulator come into force. Speaking to ZDNet UK on Wednesday, a spokesperson for Ofcom said the regulator was following guidelines laid down by the European...
[September 14, 2006, 13:30]
Super-regulator to shake up media
News The future of all electronic media is to be shaken up with the arrival of a super-regulator, "Ofcom", which will have powers to investigate all broadcasting and telecommunications companies. The communications white paper charts the "third...
[December 12, 2000, 16:11]
Regulator wants cheaper fixed-line-to-mobile calls
Talkback Still, it should be down to market processes to determine price not regulator intervention. It's a good idea and i really doubt it even costs 1 pence to connect the call to a mobile phone! Bad move ofcom (and i dont call mobiles!
[September 15, 2006, 16:42]
Euro telco super-regulator plan savaged
Talkback A cross Erope regulator is a certain way to ruin an enterprising and expanding industry that is geared to the economics of it's national infrastructure. A pan European co-ordinator with no regulatory powers would be a far more amenable, albeit...
[October 23, 2006, 21:21]
Telco regulator to give ICSTIS teeth
News The regulator wants an increase in the £100,000 limit for fines that the Independent Committee for the Supervision of Standards of Telephone Information Services (ICSTIS) watchdog can levy. Ofcom is to beef up the powers and penalties of the...
[December 9, 2004, 12:55]
Euro telco super-regulator plan savaged
Talkback There is no proposal for a telco super-regulator. Please do some research before writing an article based on random nonsensical hearsay.
[October 24, 2006, 9:36]
Super-regulator Ofcom merges tasks
News According to culture secretary Chris Smith the unified super regulator will streamline the processes expected when Internet meets broadcast media. To cope with accelerating convergence between different broadcasting media and telecommunications...
[December 13, 2000, 15:51]
UK regulator Oftel's role examined
News Oftel, the UK telecoms regulator, is coming under increasing fire for its failure to move forward cheaper, competitive Internet services in the UK. Tue, 26 Sep In a strongly worded letter to Oftel Tuesday, World Online lays down a challenge to the...
[September 27, 2000, 15:14]
Regulator clamps down on rogue dialler cash
News The regulator announced on Thursday that telecoms companies such as BT will no longer be allowed to pass on call revenues to premium-rate service operators until at least 30 days after the call was made.
[August 5, 2005, 15:25]
Government hopes ex-gas regulator can kick-start Broadband Britain
News Clare Spottiswoode, formerly the UK gas industry regulator, has been asked by the Treasury to advise how the take-up of broadband Internet services in the UK can be increased. The move has been reported as a vote of no confidence in David Edmonds...
[December 3, 2001, 11:32]
Euro telco super-regulator plan savaged
News The European Commission's proposal for a pan-European telecommunications super-regulator was widely derided at a major seminar in Westminster on Thursday. However, Granberg said that "on balance" his company disagreed that one regulator would be...
[October 20, 2006, 17:00]
News Burst: Super-regulator to shake up media
News The future of all electronic media looks likely to be shaken up with the arrival of a super-regulator to be dubbed "Ofcom" which will have powers to investigate all broadcasting and telecommunications companies.
[December 12, 2000, 9:35]
EC repeats call for telco super-regulator
News The European Commission's Information Society Commissioner has reiterated her desire to introduce a pan-European telecommunications super-regulator. Reding cited a recent incident where the EC was forced to convince a national regulator that its...
[November 20, 2006, 12:25]
Financial regulator investigates iSoft
News The growing crisis at troubled UK software firm iSoft deepened on Thursday morning after the company revealed that it was being investigated by the UK's financial regulator. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) launched its investigation after...
[August 24, 2006, 12:10]
EC pares down plans for telecoms super-regulator
News The European Commission has agreed to pare back plans for a telecoms super-regulator, following a European Parliament vote in September. Telecoms commissioner Viviane Reding had wanted a large body that could manage and potentially overrule...
[November 11, 2008, 11:38]
UK regulator clamps down on porn sites
News The UK's premium rate phone services regulator has fined and barred two online porn providers. Regulator ICSTIS imposed fines of £75,000 on Greenock and £50,000 on Premium Call GmbH, while access to both services was barred for a period of two years.
[October 23, 2002, 10:44]
Euro telco super-regulator plan savaged
Talkback Anonymous: Having sat through the eForum meeting, I can confirm that this is a real issue that prompted hours of debate. If however you have information that would suggest it to be otherwise, do feel free to let us know.
[October 26, 2006, 10:06]
Internet regulator considers anti-paedophile powers
Talkback There is a vile bug which has found its way onto my computer and keeps changing my homepage (however many times I remove the 'spy' ) to a site which portrays sexual activity/nudity of chidren and very young teens - my ISP is not interested other...
[November 20, 2003, 19:17]
Regulator demands more powers to fight rogue diallers
Talkback We had a similar problem last year in Germany, the illegal dialers made over 1bn€, but it is now illegal, although the rougue diallers are still turning up from unscrupulous sources. They are also switching to foreign numbers now.
[July 9, 2004, 9:02]
