- ITV Launching Made For Mobile TV Series “The Gym”: ITV (LSE: ITV) premieres its second made-for-mobile (and internet) TV show on Monday. The “mobicom” The Gym, is a comedy…

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Ofcom’s initial verdict in its assessment of the UK pay-TV market, prompted by complaints by rivals - pretty good, could do better. The regulator said the sector had grown from…

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Here’s another reason for Ofcom to convince telcos to build high-speed open networks - the very future of the BBC’s online provision. The broadcaster’s future media and technology director Ashley…

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British consumers are getting some of the best deals for broadband, mobile and television services in Europe, thanks to cheap bundled services, according to an exhaustive report from Ofcom, looking…

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Ofcom will launch an investigation into the UK’s mobile phone industry next year, amid worries that in the rush to convergence regulation is not keeping pace with the rapidly changing…

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British regulator Ofcom will auction spectrum next year: “The 1452MHz to 1492MHz radio spectrum is being freed up by the transition from analogue to digital switchover” reports Tech.co.uk. While the…

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In the red corner - BT, (NYSE: BT) Setanta, Top Up TV and Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) team up to complain about BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) in a 59-page joint submission…

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UK broadcasting regulator Ofcom is taking over premium-rate phone regulator PhonepayPlus (formerly Icstis) to take a tighter rein on the call-TV industry after a year of scandals. It’s one measure…

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[With Dianne See Morrison] If the UK’s broadband network is to be upgraded to the kinds of speeds enjoyed in South Korea, somebody’s going to have to pay for it…

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Nearly nine out of 10 households in the UK choose broadband to connect to the Internet, according to Ofcom’s second annual Consumer Experience study. The regulator’s 153-page tome is an…

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British telecoms regulator Ofcom is proposing to deregulate nearly 65 percent of the market where it believes competition has developed strongly enough for it to step back. Under the proposal…

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Life’s not always a Picnic for satellite broadcaster BSkyB (NYSE: BSY). The company, which is 39.1 percent owned by News Corp. (NYSE: NWS), may be the UK’s largest pay-TV provider,…

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The UK’s Competition Commission today dealt a blow to the all-mighty BSkyB (NYSE: BSY), the pay-TV provider 39.1 percent owned by News Corp. (NYSE: NWS), by ruling that its 17.9…

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UK media regulator Ofcom has acknowledged the strains bandwidth-heavy services like IPTV will place on broadband lines by publishing a consultation to examine how to implement even faster offerings (release…

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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is “considering” buying some of the mobile spectrum Ofcom yesterday said it would auction in 2009, laying the ground for what would be a move in to…

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The European Commission wants telecoms companies elsewhere in Europe to follow the UK’s lead by encouraging national market leaders to split their services and infrastructure divisions. In the UK, BT…

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Broadcasters are not the only ones trying to figure out how best to use emerging platforms like the internet and mobile to deliver their content; now it seems regulators are…

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