Tech News : Ofcom To Investigate Competition In Cloud Services

By Paul Stradling | September 28, 2022

UK communications regulator Ofcom has announced that it will soon be launching a market study under the Enterprise Act 2002 into competition in the UK’s cloud sector and its ‘hyperscalers’. What Is The Enterprise Act 2002?  The Enterprise Act 2002, which came into force on 20 June 2003, reformed competition, and consumer law enforcement in…

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Featured Article: Scam Calls : A Significant Update

By Paul Stradling | October 28, 2021

This week, we heard the good news that the big phone networks have agreed to automatically block foreign scam calls, and we heard the bad news that an Ofcom survey has revealed that 45 million people in the UK were targeted by scam text messages or phone calls this summer! The Challenge The challenge has…

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Tech News : Networks Angered By Ofcom’s Openreach Decision

By Paul Stradling | October 7, 2021

Independent broadband network providers (altnets) have been angered by Ofcom’s decision to take no action over anti-competition concerns about (BT) Openreach’s “Equinox” offer. What Is Equinox? The Equinox Offer from BT’s Openreach essentially proposes that big ISPs can buy discounted wholesale Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband products. Openreach’s Equinox Offer gives ISPs (e.g., TalkTalk or Sky) cheaper/discounted…

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