OW Guest Opinion:  Ofcom’s duty to the general public, by David Mason My first contribution to Ofcomwatch was in January 2009, but there is a back-story to that contribution. Back then I said: Ever since it had a duty to citizens thrust upon it...

Earning around 400,000 per year from Ofcom, it cannot be a comfortable week for Ed Richards. From Gordon Brown’s speech: It cannot be right that taxpayers fund 300 local authority officials who have salaries over £150,000, or that in total over 300...

It’s probably a central tenet of regulatory theory:  The more symbolic and pointless a regulatory activity is, the more interested the public seem to be.  In the media and communications sector, this means that broadcast content adjudications by...

From ‘letters’, the Daily Telegraph, 21 Nov: SIR – You say (Leading article, November 20) that Ofcom is “vastly overstaffed”. Ofcom was formed by merging five bodies into a single, leaner organisation. It now employs more than 300 fewer people...

Today is the deadline for submitting comments on the FCC’s study (prepared by the Harvard Berkman Center under the leadership of Yochai Benkler) as it relates to the National Broadband Plan.  So, yeah, only nerds are interested, but late last week an...