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A direct line to marketing hell | Simon Davies

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:12:29 GMT

Like millions of people across Britain, I now refuse to answer my home landline number, and with good justification. I am plagued night and day by relentless and unwelcome marketing calls.
Source: Guardian Unlimited

Telecoms operators offer reasons to be cheerful

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:18:59 GMT

On the face of it, 2009 has been an exciting year for the UK telecoms sector with more and more people upgrading to smartphones and trials of next-generation broadband technology finally taking place.
Source: Times Online

It’s not all bad news for Scotland’s defiant papers

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:48:27 GMT

From The Shetland Times in the north to the Dumfries and Galloway Standard in the south, Scotland’s 90-plus weekly newspapers are enduring the most torrid time in their long, placid history.
Source: Times Online

Public warned: putting the word ‘über’ in front of everything isn’t cool or sassy

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:56:22 GMT

Media watchdog Ofcom has slammed the use of the word ‘über’, warning that the German prefix isn’t especially cool or fashionable. According to a recent report, it is, in fact, ‘rather tiresome and makes one look and sound like a twat’.
Source: NewsBiscuit

Mandelson defends copyright infringement plans

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:33:35 GMT

Business secretary Lord Mandelson introduced the Digital Economy Bill at second reading yesterday. He began by explaining how the Bill is "an important part of the wider Digital Britain agenda".
Source: ePolitix

Mandelson vs. Murdoch,

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:52:22 GMT

I never expected to agree with Peter Mandelson but it has happened today.
Source: openDemocracy

NGA faces election test

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:48:11 GMT

The next-generation access (NGA) network rollout, a key subject of Lord Steven Carter’s Digital Britain report published earlier in June, is starting to become shrouded in uncertainty, courtesy of next year’s general election.
Source: VNUNet.com

Mandelson calls on Tories to support Ofcom, not Murdoch

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:46:29 GMT

Mandelson told fellow members of the House of Lords: "There are some in the commercial sector who believe that the future of British media would be served by cutting back the role of the media regulator.
Source: Brand Republic

Quoted in 'Lord Mandelson labels former PCC head Sir Christopher Meyer 'absurd''

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:09:53 GMT

said in Guardian Unlimited:

The goal seems to be less impartiality, and more marketisation of broadcasting, with the BBC and Ofcom being cut down in order to give greater space to commercial providers, and to enable them to charge more for it

Ofcom's Local and Regional Media Review and the Future of Scotland - Glasgow 10th November 2009

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:05:06 GMT

Quoted in 'Dannii 'homophobic' jibe cleared'

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:51:48 GMT

said in The Scotsman:

In Ofcom's view, it was not outside the established nature of the programme for an X Factor judge to make such a comment as Dannii Minogue's especially in circumstances where the performer had placed information about his sexuality in the public domain ... Ofcom did not discern a pejorative or homophobic intent behind her comment.