Following European telecom commissioner Viviane Reding’s call last week to reduce and cap roaming data and SMS charges (see our post), news orgs claims to have seen specific prices in…

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-- Setanta: Setanta Sports has got carriage from Inuk, the south Wales-based IPTV operator whose FreewireTV service pipes channels to PCs in students’ halls of residence rooms. It’s part of…

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Mobile content news from our sister site mocoNews.net: -- What’s Happening With Vivendi Games Mobile? Possible Sale Coming: What is going on with Vivendi Games Mobile, the mobile gaming unit…

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Ofcom has opened a wide-ranging consultation on the UK mobile sector, in order to prepare the industry for “a second mobile revolution, bringing together the ease and portability of mobile…

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Tom Loosemore is leaving Ofcom in October to head Channel 4’s £50 million 4iP digital investment project - his latest key role in UK public service digital media. Tomski was…

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Joost, which is already frustrated at its failure to get any content from BBC, ITV (LSE: ITV) and C4, has told the Competition Commission that the broadcasters’ Kangaroo JV will…

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One of the UK’s top ISPs is preparing to launch an unlimited music service that would see it pay record labels for songs illegally downloaded by its customers, paidContent:UK can…

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The Competition Commission, which was handed the Kangaroo VOD JV proposal in June for a six-month inquiry, is delaying the process for a further month because BBC Worldwide, ITV (LSE:…

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The UK should create a Council For Child Internet Safety that would monitor user-generated content sites for offensive material, according to a wide-ranging paper from the House Of Commons media…

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Three parent Hutchison Whampoa is calling for roaming data charges to be lowered across Europe. It said it had reached a million mobile broadband subscribers across the continent but is…

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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) - a relative newcomer to broadcast policy lobbying - responded to Ofcom’s ongoing second review of public service broadcasting (PSB) by picking holes in the regulator’s vision…

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Two new government initiatives to crack down on rogue mobile phone services: Just days after the EU said it would force operators to lower SMS roaming charges, its consumer chief…

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Here it is: After months of threats and warnings, the European Commission announced today that it will end “roaming rip-offs” for text messages abroad after calls to the industry to…

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So BT (NYSE: BT) is going ahead with its investment in super-fast broadband--as long as Ofcom plays along. The telecoms firm announced today that it will spend £1.5 billion in…

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The European Commission is expected to announce tomorrow that it will propose legislation to cut the cost of sending and receiving text messages while roaming, according to the IHT. On…

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Though the European Commission last week told me Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) hadn’t flagged its Google (NSDQ: GOOG) search partnership to its antitrust authority, when I asked Yahoo whether it would…

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Two European Parliament committees last night approved the so-called EU Telecoms Package, a wide-ranging set of housekeeping measures on telecoms regulation that will allow media regulators in EU states to…

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Throwing a small lifeline to newspapers coping with the twin pressures of digital investment and falling print revenue, European media commissioner Viviane Reding pledged: ”There should be no new advertising…

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Fresh from winning a European court case forcing Google (NSDQ: GOOG) News to stop exercpting their articles, Belgian news publishers have lost their similar case against the European Commission itself…

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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) have elected not to seek the European Commission’s permission for their ad sharing deal - but that doesn’t mean the proposal won’t face…

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-- News International: More fall-out from the Boston Consulting Group report that advised axing the magazine unit and introducing a single management layer - The Sun and Times publisher is…

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Regulation here we come. June 30th was the deadline for European operators to let the EU telecoms commissioner Viviane Reding know how much they were charging for roaming text messages…

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A day before Ashley Highfield (pictured) becomes CEO, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), has referred the BBC Worldwide/ITV/C4 Kangaroo VOD JV to the Competition Commission, for a more thorough…

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The message couldn’t be clearer: Don’t expect media ownership regulation to ease up anytime soon. In a hefty report published today by the House of Lords Communications Committee, it firmly…

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy has made good on his promise to shake up the country’s media industry. Starting on January 1 next year prime-time advertising on public television will be…

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