Ofcom Archives - Mobile Industry Review

Three launches new 40 GB mobile broadband plan, but is 40 GB enough?

Mobile phone company Three UK has recently added a new option for anyone looking to sign up for mobile broadband. There is now a...

Smartphones have overtaken laptops as the most popular device for getting online in the UK

Smartphones are ubiquitous and are one of the primary means for us to get online these days - more so than laptops and computers for...

Morgan Mullooly of Analysys Mason gives us a viewpoint on the EE/Ofcom/Vodafone spectrum debacle

Further to my earlier post, here's some rather useful perspective from Analysys Mason's spectrum specialist Morgan Mullooly. Ofcom’s decision is really rather startling – if...

Vodafone UK is “shocked” at the “careless disregard” of Ofcom on 4G spectrum

The team at Vodafone UK are seriously annoyed. Enough to use some rather emotive language when describing the behaviour of the industry's regulator, Ofcom....

After years of doing next to nothing, Ofcom finally wants 0800 numbers to be free from mobiles

I was pleased to come across this post from today's Telegraph pointing out that Ofcom, the generally ineffectual UK telecoms regulator, has finally got...

Ofcom plans to open-up Whitespace in UK — good news!

Thank you to Steve Kennedy who sent in this overview of the developments going on in the whitespace spectrum segment of the industry that...

Ofcom overruled by Competition Commission

Ofcom was planning to reduce the termination charges of the UK MNOs to 5.1p per minute by 2010/2011. Now the Competition Commission have ruled...

WIN Plc and the 72 £1.50 text message bomb

Back in 2006, a MIR reader's daughter got a text message. And another. And another. And woosh. Across what appeared...

4 in 10 of us have ditched our mobile provider

Watchdog Ofcom has been taking a look at how much we're spending on telecoms these days and rather happily has discovered we're paying less...

UK needs age ratings for under-18 mobile content

Guess what? The mobile industry is actually doing something right for once. Yep, according to watchdog Ofcom, the system of self regulation operators have...

O2 hits 80 percent 3G coverage at last

When operators bought their 3G licences back in 2000, they all promised to get coverage to 80 percent of the population by the end...

Ofcom gives green light to mobiles on UK planes

If you've been reading the news about Emirates and Qantas' launches of in-flight mobile access and wondering when such mile-high talk and text would...

Operators ask to dodge termination fees

The Competition Appeal Tribunal has referred the question of wholesale mobile termination rates - the fee each operator charges another to connect a call...

Ofcom cracksdown on mobile misselling

After it warned the mobile industry last year that mandatory regulation could be on the way if it didn't clean up its act, Ofcom...

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