| All options on the table in UK broadband policy review |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Thursday, 28 February 2008 | |
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So, the review will consider possible barriers to any new models of investment involving collaboration between telecommunications suppliers and between suppliers and content providers and will aim to identify potential solutions. It will examine whether the EU and UK statutory framework has given the regulator, Ofcom the necessary powers to establish a regulatory regime which will provide regulatory certainty for investors and sufficiently incentivise new investment in high speed access. A key statement comes from the head of BERR. Shriti Vadera, who said: "We must not be in a situation where our creativity and growth of our businesses are stifled by inadequate communications and regulatory frameworks." In other words, the review is going to question the entire telecoms regulatory framework. And it appears that the review is intended to completely bypass the current regulator in the UK. Eyebrows have been raised by the fact that Ofcom - which, as a generalisation, combines the access regulation administered by Australia's ACCC and the communications regulatory regime of the ACMA - has been sidelined and an independent figure, a former head of Cable & Wireless, has been named to head up the review. |
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