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Ofcom to Let Mobile Users Bail Mid-Contract if Prices Rise
Mobile regulator Ofcom is looking into the difficult issue of mid-contract mobile price rises, putting forward the idea that customers might soon be able to walk away from a long term deal if the price...
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Vodafone: Ofcom’s Mid-Contract Cancellation Plan Could Raise Costs for Everyone
Ofcom’s welcome decision to look at mid-contract mobile cancellations hasn’t gone down very well with Vodafone, which claims “millions of people” might end up paying more for their phones to the...
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Playboy Gets a £100,000-Slap Across the Face From Ofcom
Looks like Playboy’s been a naughty bunny. Ofcom’s fined the smut-peddlers for doing what they do best, all while not protecting the kids well enough. Apparently anyone could gob an eyeful of hardcore...
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The UK 4G Auction Is Now Officially Underway With Seven Bidders Going for It
Hooray, the official UK 4G auction bidding war is finally underway. Bidders are now free to throw their cash at Ofcom, using what basically sounds like Ofcom’s own version of a top-secret eBay. How...
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Ofcom’s Looking at Letting All the Networks Broadcast 4G on Existing 2 and 3G...
Following EE’s 1800MHz 2G to 4G licence swap, Ofcom’s been reviewing current mobile network licensing. It seems the UK mobile regulator has come to the conclusion there’s no reason other network...
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The 4G Auction Results Are In: Vodafone Wins Big
Yes, this is it folks. The auction’s over after 50 rounds of bidding, and now the networks have up until midnight tonight to fork out the collective £2.3 billion odd in cash. But who won what, and how...
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Vodafone Says Ofcom Changes May Trigger Spam Text Tsunami
Ofcom’s looking into ways of stopping controversial mid-contract mobile price rises, with one option being to separate charges the networks are responsible for from ones outside of their control. This,...
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TalkTalk Wants Nanny Ofcom to Put BT on the Naughty Step
Ofcom has agreed to deeply and thoroughly probe BT’s business practices, following complaints from TalkTalk that BT’s been a naughty boy, charging third-party ISPs more than it should for access to...
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We’re Getting Some More 4G Spectrum By Stomping All Over Radio Enthusiasts
You want the good news first, don’t you? Well, the UK will be bathing in an extra 105Mhz of 4G spectrum, if Ofcom has its dastardly way. The bad news? In order to have aforementioned dastardly way,...
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Guess Which Broadband Provider Sucks the Most?
Ofcom has just published its shit list for ISPs: a little document detailing which broadband provider is the most bitched-about. The findings? Well, all the broadband providers need to up their game,...
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Ofcom’s Going to Tell Us Who the Fastest Networks Are, Once and For All
The networks spit out various speeds they reckon we should be getting. Maximum speeds we never come close to, as well as “average” speeds that always seem a tad optimistic. It seems Ofcom’s become a...
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More Gs Coming as Ofcom Opens 2G and 3G Spectrum to 4G Networks
Telecom regulator Ofcom has rejigged the rules regarding 4G mobile networks in the UK, opening up more of the existing 2G and 3G spectrum for use with fancy new 4G services. The change will allow our...
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The BBC’s Spitting Out Five New Free HD Channels
The BBC’s just announced that all of its TV channels are going HD. That means BBC News, Three, Four, CBBC and Cbeebies will all get HD versions pumped out across both satellite and Freeview for all...
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No More Landline and Broadband Downtime When Switching ISPs, Says Ofcom
Phone industry regulator Ofcom is planning to simplify the rules covering switching landline and broadband providers, which should streamline the process and make the nightmare scenario that is losing...
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Two Per Cent of Web Users do Three-Quarters of the Illegal Downloading
Stats from UK telecom regulator Ofcom reveal that the piracy problem is perhaps a bit less widespread than is often claimed, with just two per cent of the UK’s internet users responsible for...
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Ofcom Wants ISPs to Make Broadband Switching Quicker and Easier
Ofcom boss Ed Richards wants the UK ISPs to introduce new measures to make switching broadband provider much more straightforward, so we can enjoy flip-flopping between internet pipes with ease...
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Mobile Networks Furious Over Huge Spectrum Price Hikes
Four of our mobile networks are in a sulk with communications regulator Ofcom, after it announced plans to raise the licensing fees paid to use existing mobile networks. It may mean more expensive...
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Cold-Callers Watch Out! There’s an Ofcom Taskforce Ready to Take You Out
“No I’ve not had an accident in the last three years, and yes, I’m certain I don’t want to take you up on your shady life-insurance offer”. Who can save us from these unsolicited cold-callers,...
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You Can Soon Quit a UK Mobile Contract Without Penalty if Prices Rise
Mobile phone contracts can be lengthy, expensive things, leaving you paying through the nose for an out-of-date handset by the back end of a 24-month deal. Adding insult to injury, carriers could up...
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Ofcom Greenlights the Use of Vehicle-Mounted Earth Stations to Enable Solid...
Committing to a train, plane, coach or boat journey is usually also signing yourself up for a few hours of broadband-detox — trains offer extortionately priced (and almost uniformly slow) web access,...
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