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UK Office of Communications to allow in-flight cellphone calls - OfCom plan allows voice calls

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2008-03-26 22:48:13 by willpark in IntoMobile
...OfCom , the UK equivalent to the US FCC) has announced that it will allow lofty voice calls from UK-registered airplanes later this year. The OfCom decision is still pending European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). OfCom says that the approval was granted in cooperation with other EU countries and will...
 
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Ofcom moves forward on in-flight Mobile usage

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2008-08-01 10:03:48 by Ben Robinson in IntoMobile
...Ofcom. It said radio equipment for mobile communications on aircraft (MCA) would be licensed under the 2006 Wireless Telegraphy Act and that licenses would be issued to UK aircraft operators on request. But Ofcom added that EU regulators would have to approve any system as would the European Aviation Safety Agency and the UKs Civil Aviation...
 
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UK: Phones4U looking at an investigation by Ofcom

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2008-05-16 22:21:01 by Ben Robinson in IntoMobile
...Ofcom, the UK Telecoms regulator, has said that it has had numbers of complaints about misrepresentation, hidden charges, and so-called "cashback" offers, which have proved to be unclaimable Ofcom has said it will provide a judgment on it's findings within 6 months - and Phones 4U has said it will comply with all requests for information Via:...
 
Tags: ofcom, ofcom plan, phones, ofcom announces, plan, in-flight cellphone calls, popular highstreet retailer, swallows dial-a-phone, release spectrum
 
 
 
 
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UK: Ofcom announces it's plan to release spectrum (via auction) for Mobile TV

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2008-03-17 22:56:34 by Ben Robinson in IntoMobile
Ofcom (the UK regulator for [Tele]comms) has announced it's plan to auction off a chunk of radio spectrum, which would be suitable for Mobile TV . The deadline for applications to the auction will be 10/4/08, with a view to having the auction stating end of April But I thought Mobile TV wasn't due till 2010 or later? " I hear you say - well, yes...
 
Tags: auction, spectrum, wireless spectrum auction, public radio spectrum, radio spectrum, mobile tv, 700mhz wireless spectrum, fcc approves auction, ofcom
 
 
 
 
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Ofcom pushes back UK phone spectrum auction

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2008-06-11 15:07:41 by Ben Robinson in IntoMobile
Ofcom (the UK communications regulator ) has pushed back plans for an auction of radio spectrum due to legal challenges from O2 and T-Mobile As you might remember from past postings I have made, there was due to be an auction this September for 2.6 gigahertz and 2010 megahertz spectrum - which could be used for things such as wireless broadband,...
 
Tags: auction, spectrum, wireless spectrum auction, 700mhz spectrum auction, canadian aws spectrum, aws spectrum, megahertz spectrum, public radio spectrum, radio spectrum due
 
 
 
 
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UK's Ofcom follows FCC, agrees to sell-off public radio spectrum

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2008-02-01 17:26:00 by Donald Melanson in Engadget
...Ofcom has already given some indication that it intended to follow the FCC and sell off some public radio spectrum of its own, and it now looks like its really about to get the ball rolling, with it giving the official go-ahead for some key spectrum to be sold off through a "market mechanism." As The Independent reports, that spectrum could...
 
Tags: spectrum, public radio spectrum, key spectrum, ofcom, regulator ofcom, official go-ahead, market mechanism, exact mechanism, pounds start
 
 
 
 
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UKs Ofcom follows FCC, agrees to sell-off public radio spectrum

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2008-02-01 22:26:00 by Donald Melanson in
...Ofcom has already given some indication that it intended to follow the FCC and sell off some public radio spectrum of its own, and it now looks like its really about to get the ball rolling, with it giving the official go-ahead for some key spectrum to be sold off through a "market mechanism." As The Independent reports, that spectrum could...
 
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UKs Ofcom follows FCC, agrees to sell off public radio spectrum

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2008-02-02 23:02:01 by admin in Cool Gadgets and Gizmos
...Ofcom has already given some indication that it intended to follow the FCC and sell off some public radio spectrum of its own, and it now looks like its really about to get the ball rolling, with it giving the official go-ahead for some key spectrum to be sold off through a market mechanism. As The Independent reports, that spectrum could...
 
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Ofcom Backs The BBC Against ISPs

2008-04-26 08:04:22 by admin in Cool Gadgets and Gizmos
 
Telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has told MPs that the BBC should not be forced to pay to upgrade the UKs broadband networks just because its iPlayer service has proved so successful. Ofcom chief executive Ed Richards, speaking to a session of the Commons Culture, Media & Sport and Business and Enterprise committees, said: I am More: continued here
 
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