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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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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. This viewpoint was acknowledged by Reding in her speech on Thursday, but she maintained that "two...
[November 20, 2006, 12:25]
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]
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]
Analysis: Ofcom To Give BBC Remit For Universal Net Access?
News It is not just the BBC that will benefit from the new super regulator. And while it may finally find a solution for getting the UK online, even a super regulator faces an uphill struggle to unite the industries it has been charged with overseeing.
[December 13, 2000, 16:20]
Reding On The Warpath Again (and Again)
Blog Judging from this Dow Jones piece, Reding is still adamant on creating a Eurotelco super-regulator, something she's been "suggesting" for a while now. The so-called "nuclear option" is a super-regulator, which, as we have established, is not wildly...
[February 2, 2007, 15:42]
ZDNet.co.uk - The Tabloid You Can Trust
Blog Others criticise it as they fear unnecessary centralism and new bureaucracies, often summarised under the term 'Super-Regulator' preferred by some tabloid newspapers for the Commission's plans. So we're a tabloid (see here and here for our most...
[October 15, 2007, 12:39]
UK Still Failing On Broadband Unbundling
News Latest figures from communications regulator Ofcom show that UK telecoms firms are still struggling to get access to the local telephone network, and BT is at the heart of the problem. The regulator warned that this is making it difficult for...
[February 9, 2005, 13:15]
Oftel Boss Wins Place On Ofcom Board
News David Edmonds, director-general of Oftel, has been appointed to the board of Ofcom, the new super-regulator that will oversee the UK's broadcasting and telecommunications sectors. The posting means that Edmonds, who has ruled Oftel since 1998...
[September 25, 2002, 11:13]
Tory Rage Over Ofcom Stitch-up
News The head of the super-regulator will need to juggle the interests of both the telecoms industry and the broadcast world, and handle any trade-offs along the way. The Conservative party has condemned rumours that former culture secretary Chris Smith...
[August 21, 2001, 9:26]
Ofcom Seeks To Speed Up UK Fibre Rollout
News Telecoms regulator Ofcom has launched a review into the most financially viable ways of replacing the existing copper networks. Consultation on Ofcom's proposed regulations for new-build fibre networks will finish on 25 June and the regulator...
[April 17, 2008, 8:43]
Communications Bill Ignores Broadband
News The Communications Bill, under which a "super-regulator" will be created to oversee Britain's telecommunications and broadcasting sectors, does not include any new measures to support the rollout of broadband in the UK.
[May 8, 2002, 17:16]
Industry Confused Over Role Of Ofcom
News Despite a positive response from the telecommunications and broadcasting industry for super-regulator Ofcom, evidence suggests it feels the government has given the BBC too much leeway. The much-awaited communications White Paper, published in the...
[December 14, 2000, 8:39]
BT Calls For Euro-wide Telecoms Regulations
News The European Commission is keen on the idea of creating a "super-regulator" to oversee and potentially veto national telecoms regulators in Europe — an idea that has met with strong resistance from national regulators such as Ofcom.
[April 7, 2008, 13:18]
EU Telecoms Gets Regulatory Shake-up
News However, the Commission has stopped short of instituting the full "super-regulator" many national regulators had feared. Ofcom is the model regulator, in the opinion of the Commission. The European Commission has adopted a raft of proposals that...
[November 14, 2007, 13:24]
EC To Make Fibre 'recommendation'
News On the subject of a new "super-regulator" for European telecoms, Ofcom chief Ed Richard made a speech to a hearing at the European Parliament on Wednesday, in which he said the co-ordination of regulatory efforts to promote a single market "can be...
[February 27, 2008, 16:23]
