UK still lags in broadband extensiveness
News A new report by research group Analysys has found that the UK now boasts the third most competitive broadband market of all the G7 industrialised nations, e-commerce minister Stephen Timms told the Westminster Media Forum on Tuesday.
[May 21, 2003, 16:58]
Comms minister calls for universal broadband access
News Speaking at a Westminster eForum and Westminster Media Forum Keynote Seminar on Digital Britain in London today, Lord Carter, the minister for communications, technology and broadcasting, said the communications sector is at a "turning point...
[January 15, 2009, 7:32]
Revised online video rules attacked
News The TVWF directive] was as entirely sclerotic and ill-conceived as the Common Agricultural Policy," Woodward said at the Westminster Media Forum event on privacy convergence and content regulation. The Mobile Entertainment Forum suggested that such...
[March 14, 2007, 11:59]
Could copyright crackdown kill superfast broadband demand?
Blog I just spent the morning at a Westminster e-Forum (ISPs, policy makers, politicians, etc) about the future of next-generation broadband in Britain. If I may approach this issue from an anecdotally-based starting point, many of those I know who have...
[November 26, 2009, 13:18]
Policing the web (or not)
Blog Well, just over a month ago, I attended a Westminster Media Forum (basically a talking shop involving government, regulators and industry) on the subjects of privacy, convergence and content regulation (I bring this up again now because I have...
[April 23, 2007, 15:59]
NTL hits back in 128Kbps broadband row
News Alex Blowers, director of regulatory affairs at NTL, claimed in a speech at a Westminster Media Forum event in London that this infighting over definitions was damaging for the whole industry, and deterred some users from upgrading to broadband.
[May 20, 2003, 15:45]
EC cool on data-roaming regulation
News Speaking at a Westminster e-Forum on data roaming on Monday, Fabio Colasanti said the Commission was loath to impose a cap on the wholesale price of data usage while abroad, and said greater transparency to the consumer would be more appropriate...
[July 21, 2008, 17:17]
Government attacks EC's 'dangerous' online media plans
News Companies may relocate, taking jobs and services elsewhere, while the content is still consumed here," said Woodward, speaking at a Westminster Media Forum seminar in London. Reding is the EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media, who is...
[June 29, 2006, 16:05]
Broadband Britain booms with two million home users
News A new report by research group Analysys has found that the UK now boasts the third most competitive broadband market of all the G7 industrialised nations, e-commerce minister Stephen Timms told the Westminster Media Forum on Tuesday.
[May 22, 2003, 9:43]
Oftel urged to improve its broadband stats
News At last month's Westminster Media Forum, concern was raised that it is often difficult for one person trapped in a broadband black spot to find details of local groups that may have been set up to address the issue.
[June 2, 2003, 13:47]
The light at the end of the fibre
Leader Ofcom must overcome its rather 1990s assumption that nothing good can come from Westminster, and lead the discussion about how, not if, the UK can work for itself to get some fibre in its backbone. And at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco...
[September 28, 2007, 14:55]
MPs worried by broadband divide
News Go to the Telecoms forum. However, as the select committee for culture, media and sport warned this week, ".none of this fund, for all it might achieve, has yet been spent". MPs have called on the government to do more to address the lack of...
[May 3, 2002, 12:58]
