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Firms Face Massive Fine for Placing Silent Calls in the United Kingdom
Kevin Brennan, United Kingdom Minister for Consumer Affairs has confirmed that firms which cause nuisance and distress to consumers through silent and abandoned calls will face a new maximum fine of £2 million. The new penalty is an increase on the current...
Europe Wide Standards Adopted for Audio Visual Media Services
Better consumer protection and a formal industry-led co-regulatory system will be introduced for the first time as common standards for video-on-demand services are adopted across Europe. The new measures are part of the European Union Audio Visual Media...
U.K. Government Publishes Ideas to Allow for Swifter And More Flexible Measures to Tackle Unlawful Peer-to-peer File-sharing
New ideas to allow for swifter and more flexible measures to tackle unlawful peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing have been published by the U.K. Government. The Government is seeking views on the idea of including a power, under the forthcoming Digital Economy...
Companies Investigation Branch Disconnects U.K. Cell Phone Retailer
A Midlands based company that offered cash back incentives to members of the public to encourage them to sign up for expensive mobile phone contracts has been wound up in the High Court following an investigation by the Companies Investigation Branch...
ITV, Channel 4 And BBC to Launch HD Channels on Freeview in 2009 – Political Opinion
We’re told that the future of broadcasting is high definition, yet ITV’s HD proposal for Freeview contains no regional content whatsoever apart from something that’s entitled “programs about the UK’s nations and regions”....
British Government Advice Service Sees a 45% Increase in Timeshare Complaints in the First Six Months of the Year
If you sign a timeshare contract which you later regret, you may have the right to cancel, but you need to act fast advises Consumer Direct. The government advice service has received more than 1800 timeshare related complaints in the first six months...
Plans for Reduced Public Service Role are Good News for ITV
Despite much talk of ‘radical’ solutions being required for the “digital age” – whatever that is, although for the majority of people it just means more repeats, woefully produced reality TV, shopping channels, a few more...
Ofcom Chairman Disputes BBC’s ‘unique Link’ with License Fee Payers
There’s more than a hint of trying to defend the indefensible when Ofcom chairman David Currie yet again attempts to weaken the connection between the license fee and the BBC, and it’s hard not to conclude that you can clearly hear the sound...
