New EU Communications Body (can you hear us?)

Posted by Kieron on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Yesterday I retweeted a link to an article which appeared in Abu Dhabi’s The National entitled Genuine competition needed in telecoms. The article is extremely pertinent and timely given Thursday’s IRG/ERG press release regarding the creation of BEREC, the election of its officers and secretariat and the decision to locate the body in Brussels. (Acronym [...]

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Make FREEPHONE free campaign!

Posted by Kieron on Friday, January 15th, 2010

You’ve probably detected a little frustration in the posts on this blog. It’s become a bit of a crusade really – this desire for a level playing field for fixed and mobile communications providers. Unfortunately, more than 25 years since their introduction, 0800 “freephone” numbers are still not free when dialled from most UK mobile [...]

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Letter to BBC Breakfast

Posted by Kieron on Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

Dear Bill and Sian I am shocked and extremely disappointed to see the following text on your on your website in relation to your 03 contact number: “Calls cost no more than calls to 01/02 geographic numbers, although calls from mobiles will vary according to your provider.” Worse still, the text which appears on the [...]

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Archive for the ‘Premium Rate’ Category

Ofcom’s PRS Scope Review. Come on guys!

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Today, Ofcom published a Statement establishing an “analytical framework that will help inform future Ofcom considerations on whether the scope of [PRS] regulation should be widened or narrowed”. From a consumer perspective, there can only be one outcome of such considerations. Surely. The level of confusion and ambiguity in PRS regulation – particularly pricing – [...]