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E-commerce Strategy Could Damage UK Economy - Report
News The House of Commons Trade and Industry Select Committee report, attacks the Department of Trade and Industry Bill on several fronts ranging from statutory licensing to key escrow and concludes that UK e-commerce has been "severely damaged" as a...
[May 19, 1999, 12:42]
MPs To Scrutinise Broadband
News The Trade and Industry Select Committee announced on Friday that it is beginning an investigation into the "development of broadband in the UK". Should the committee feel that the telecoms industry isn't to blame for the broadband divide, the...
[September 15, 2003, 11:40]
UK E-commerce Bill Comes Under Fire
News Initially conceived to promote e-commerce in the UK the bill has come in for heavy criticism from privacy groups, industry watchers and a Trade and Industry select committee. This follows damning criticism from the Trade and Industry select...
[July 23, 1999, 15:02]
ID Card Scrutiny Under Threat
News Brian Iddon, MP for Bolton South East and a member of the House of Commons Science and Technology select committee, said on Thursday that proper oversight of scientific and technological issues could be threatened by the abolition of both the...
[July 12, 2007, 16:01]
BT To Call For Broadband Regulation Changes
News Verwaayen will make his case on Tuesday to the Trade and Industry select committee, which has organised an inquiry into the "development of broadband in the UK". The select committee is taking evidence from a number of telcos, as well as Oftel and...
[November 10, 2003, 16:15]
Local Loop Unbundling 'farcical' Say MPs
News The damning criticism comes from the Trade and Industry select committee set up last December to investigate local loop unbundling, the process by which other operators install equipment in BT's exchanges in order to roll out high-speed Internet...
[March 21, 2001, 13:34]
Bonfield Deflects Government Grilling
News Managing director Sir Peter Bonfield faced a grilling from the Trade and Industry select committee as part of its investigation into unbundling of the local loop, the process which will allow other companies to compete on an equal footing with BT.
[December 20, 2000, 10:03]
MPs Unhappy Over ADSL Dominance
News The Trade and Industry select committee, in a report published on Tuesday, said that it didn't believe BT should be broken up but regretted the fact that ISPs have little option when buying wholesale broadband services to resell to users.
[February 10, 2004, 16:50]
Broadband's Inspectors Sport Varied Track Records
News The Trade and Industry select committee launched its investigation into the UK's broadband market last week. Several MPs, including Sir George Young, Richard Allan, Brian White and Derek Wyatt, have played a key role in parliamentary debates -- but...
[September 16, 2003, 18:30]
Collaboration By Association
White Papers Why spend time traveling to another meeting when instead you can have an online chat with your fellow committee members? For almost every industry there is a trade association, and for almost every interest group there is an organization.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
BT Broadband Strength Sparks Parliament Fight
News Members of the Trade and Industry select committee angered Ben Verwaayen, chief executive of BT, by claiming that BT had an unhealthy dominance over other telecoms companies in the UK, and that splitting the telco in half would benefit the British...
[November 12, 2003, 15:00]
MPs To Scrutinise Tech Industry
News The House of Commons Trade and Industry select committee will investigate why the UK is not measuring up against government targets set at the height of the technology bubble. Martin O'Neill, chairman of the select committee, told ZDNet UK's sister...
[August 19, 2003, 11:00]
Government Accused Of Hidden E-commerce Agenda
News The latest Select Committee on Trade and Industry report on the re-named e-communications bill, is far kinder on government than the last report. In May the Committee slammed the then e-commerce bill as a "damaging and embarrassing failure" and...
[November 4, 1999, 12:16]
Microsoft On Trial: After Tech Hearings, Now What?
News But after three days of hearings in Congress' Joint Economic Committee on the high-tech industry and the economy, many observers characterised the event as largely cosmetic, and not likely to be followed up by substantive legislative action.
[June 18, 1999, 11:15]
Australia May Permit 'personal' Music Copying
News Music business analyst Phil Tripp has lauded the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties' recommendations on the Free Trade Agreement between Australia and the US, which support the copying of purchased music for personal use.
[June 25, 2004, 10:20]
Local Loop Unbundling Still Stumbling Along
News Before the cross-party trade and industry select committee, chief executive Sir Peter Bonfield promised MPs that BT would make 600 exchanges available to competitors by June 2001 and 1,000 by the end of this year or early 2002.
[July 27, 2001, 14:31]
Government's E-commerce Strategy Under Attack
News The all-party select committee report is expected to criticise the government's two year delay introducing an e-commerce bill. The bill has attracted as much controversy and criticism as the man originally responsible for pushing it through -- the...
[May 18, 1999, 11:38]
MPs Warn Of 3G Mobile Price Sting
News The public accounts committee recommended that 3G operators should share networks wherever possible, and also be permitted to trade 3G spectrum. The Public Accounts Committee published a report on Friday that warned that some 3G licence-holders may...
[April 26, 2002, 11:57]
US Government, Net Firms Fail To Agree On Data Retention
News James Sensenbrenner, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and a close ally of President Bush. Sensenbrenner said through a spokesman last month, though, that his proposal is on hold because "our committee's agenda is tremendously...
[June 5, 2006, 10:25]
E-government Plans Are Doomed To Failure
News The e-envoy has been absorbed into the machinery of Whitehall and is now an adjunct of the e-minister," the Trade and Industry select committee report concluded. The man charged with overseeing the government's digital plans -- e-envoy Andrew...
[June 5, 2001, 10:19]
