Monday, September 06, 2004

Keeping regulation at bay

It is music to one's ears when regulators talk like this: "Broadband voice services are a new and emerging market," said Stephen Carter, Ofcom Chief Executive. "Our first task as regulator is to keep out of the way."

Ofcom, UK's communication regulator, is currently working on a framework to make voice over telephony services user-friendly and popular. Their plain english summary is worth a read for people not keyed into VoIP.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Very intresting someone is raising the debate, on this most important issue we have PTA here and really frannky its incompetant the goverment has signed a five year lockout dela dor any long sdistance services really we are been led into the techonological backwaters and a much need pipe to international comuications is being cut we really need to begin Lobbying for change the better, keep up the good work do mail me malik@eurodesi.com. My intrests are european media and telecom regulators.