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• Wheres kids TV in our digital future?

  
  Media: Organ Grinder | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 132
  Hopes of subsidy for Britains once-thriving and still creative childrens TV industry seem to have subsided Colette Bowe, the chair of Ofcom, drew attention yesterday to one of the most glaring omissions in the digital economy bill published last month : the failure to commit to subsidies, through a production ...
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• BSkyB attacks plans to allow BT to raise prices

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  BSkyB has attacked proposals to allow BT to charge its rivals more for access to the telephone network in order to help plug its £9.4bn pension fund deficit.
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• Most complained about TV and radio shows in 2009

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  The programmes that have caused most people to complain to Ofcom this year 1. The X Factor (ITV1): 5,975 2. Big Brother (Channel 4): 1,154 3. Britains Got Talent (ITV1): 708 4. Celebrity Big Brother (Channel 4): 428 5. Question Time (BBC1): 364 6. Coronation Street (ITV1): 336 7. Im a Celebrity ...
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• TV complaints double in four years

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Media regulator Ofcom seeing rise in TV complaints to match growing channel choice, says chief executive Ed Richards Complaints to the media regulator Ofcom about TV shows have more than doubled over the past four years following an explosion in the number of satellite and cable channels. Ofcoms chief executive, Ed ...
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• BSkyB attacks plan for BT to raise prices to cut pension deficit

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Broadcaster angered by Ofcom proposal that BT could charge rivals more for access to services BSkyB has condemned proposals by the telecoms regulator that could allow BT to charge its rivals more for access to its telephone lines to help plug the former monopolys £6.8bn pension deficit. Ofcom, which sets the ...
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• Ofcom chief hits back at James Murdoch criticism

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  BSkyB is uncomfortable with pay-TV investigation because it is specific response to area of activity, Ed Richards tells MPs The Ofcom chief executive, Ed Richards, has today defended the regulator against News Corporation executive James Murdochs claim that it is too interventionist. Richards said Ofcom worked "to ...
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• Regulator may let BT raise charges to reduce £9.4bn pension deficit

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  BT, Britains former state telecoms company, could be allowed to increase fees it charges telecom rivals such as BSkyB and Carphone Warehouse in its push to reduce its gaping pensions deficit.
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• Mandelson sideswipes absurd Meyer

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Lord Mandelson calls Christopher Meyer a slightly absurd individual, without naming him, in praise of successor Lord Mandelson attacked the former head of the Press Complaints Commission, Sir Christopher Meyer, today, calling him an "absurd individual". Mandelson praised the current PCC chair, Lady Buscombe, who ...
  2 days ago

• MAC Code Rules No Longer Needed for Changing Broadband Service Providers

  
  Your Online Pill Shop — Authority: 128
  Telecoms regulatory body Ofcom has recently announced that the MAC code rules governing the switching of broadband service providers by users is no longer valid. These rules were initiated to ensure safe and quick migration processes between users through the creation of the GC22 enforcement programme. These rules ...
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• Broadband Mac-code Rules No More a Requirement, Says Ofcom

  
  The Fast Mystic — Authority: 131
  The communications industry is about to witness a change in stance of the communications watchdog Ofcom with respect to the MAC-related complaints against internet service providers. In a recent announcement, Ofcom decided to close the scheme of GC enforcement program that had been in place for over two years. The ...
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• MAC Rules Rendered Redundant, Says Ofcom

  
  Truly Affordable — Authority: 128
  According to communications watchdog Ofcom, the MAC-related code rules are no longer necessary for prohibiting the internet service providers from indulging into violation of the norms. While deciding upon a case related to MAC code where a user was giving MAC code to change his provider, Ofcom announced that ...
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• Britain’s broadband leaders: arrogant and ambitionless

  
  PC Pro blog — Authority: 516
  How is Britain going to get the next-generation broadband network it desperately needs to compete in the modern world? That was the question posed to a panel of more than a dozen industry leaders and experts at the latest Westminster eForum, but convincing answers were desperately thin on the ground.Instead of ...
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• Online Shopping Safety Tips Given by Ofcom

  
  Cheap Broadband Internet — Authority: 137
  As Christmas is just a few weeks ahead, it was warned that an increased number of shoppers tended to ignore the high street enticement, to follow the craze of ordering on the internet. This inclination of the people in the United Kingdom has prompted the telecommunications regulator of the country, Ofcom to issue a ...
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• Internet Safety: Media Literacy Tips From Industry Insiders Pt 1

  
  Shaping Youth — Authority: 123
  Nov. 24, 2009 As fall weather kicks in and families hunker indoors to ‘more screen time’ than summer time norms, I hear tales of media management missteps that would spin heads faster than a Linda Blair Exorcist antic. (yes I know it’s almost Thanksgiving, but I’m still seguing from Halloween here…) I ...
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• Is Ofcom lean?

  
  | OfcomWatch | — Authority: 113
  From ‘letters’, the Daily Telegraph, 21 Nov: SIR – You say (Leading article, November 20) that Ofcom is “vastly overstaffed”. Ofcom was formed by merging five bodies into a single, leaner organisation. It now employs more than 300 fewer people than the combined headcount of the previous regulatory bodies, ...
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• Letters: Music industry is moving with the times

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Victor Keegan just cant bring himself to give the music industry credit for anything, can he ( The strange death of illegal downloading , Technology, 19 November)? He cant acknowledge that the industry has been changing in recent years, enabling and supporting the small, smart technology companies which he champions. ...
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• Minogues X Factor comments and treatment of Boyle cleared by Ofcom

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Ofcom clears Dannii Minogue of breaching broadcast code over comments about sexuality of contestant Danyl Johnson Ofcom has cleared The X Factor judge Dannii Minogue of breaching the broadcasting code for her remarks about the sexuality of contestant Danyl Johnson, despite receiving almost 4,000 complaints that her ...
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• An insidious argument for censorship | David Henshaw

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  The legitimate questions raised by Dispatches deserve better than to be dismissed as Islamophobia and antisemitism So whats it like to go from being Britains top Islamophobe (Dispatches Undercover Mosque ) to Britains top antisemite (Dispatches Inside Britains Israel Lobby )? Well, its a remarkably easy, not to say ...
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• Ofcom Recieves Karoo’s Bundled Broadband Request

  
  Cheap Broadband Internet — Authority: 137
  A request has been made to the broadband regulator of the United Kingdom, Ofcom by internet service provider Karoo seeking permission to offer bundled broadband phone deals to its customers in the country. The broadband provider operating in the United Kingdom has given on its Facebook page that it was engaged in ...
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• Britain’s Ofcom investigates potential for new wireless communications technology

  
  TelcoNews.com - Telecom and VoIP Industry News — Authority: 142
  [news release] Ofcom today published a discussion document to explore the potential of a new technology that could wirelessly link up different devices and offer enhanced broadband access in rural areas. The technology works by searching for unoccupied radio waves called “white spaces” between TV channels to ...
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