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This month the European Commission published an updated Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) and new e-commerce rules to help consumers and companies, in support of its Digital Single Market Strategy.
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The National Infrastructure Commission launched a 5G call for evidence further to announcements earlier this year in the 2016 Budget, where the Commission was asked to consider what the UK needs to do to become a world leader in 5G deployment and to ensure that the UK can take early advantag
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This month saw the State Opening of Parliament for the 2016-17 session; the Queen’s speech sets out the government’s agenda for the coming session, outlining proposed policies and legislation. This included details of the Digital Economy Bill which aims to make the UK a world leader in digital provision. Key elements of the Bill include:
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A final roundup of April’s news and developments:
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The US Federal Communication Commission (FCC) this month published new broadband labels to provide consumers of mobile and fixed broadband Internet service with easy-to-understand information about price and performance. This is in support of the Commission’s Open Internet regulations:
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This month the European Commission set out “a set of measures to support and link up national initiatives for the digitisation of industry and related services across all sectors and to boost investment through strategic partnerships and networks.” It also proposed “concrete measures to speed up the development of common standards in priority areas, such as 5G communication networks or cybersecurity, and to modernise public services”; more information in this
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Ofcom – Broadband USO developments: Ofcom, having been commissioned by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) to provide technical analysis and recommendations on the proposed universal service obligation (USO) for broadband, launched a consultation on its design (also see last month’s update and further background
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BT announced that Openreach’s fibre network now passes 25 million UK premises. ISP Review reported that Openreach’s has confirmed a trial of long reach VDSL broadband, which could potentially double the length of copper line over which 10Mbit/s broadband speeds can be delivered.
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Ofcom updates:
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A final round-up of March’s news and developments:
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University have developed a system that decreases web page load times by 34 percent: the “Polaris” framework determines how to overlap the downloading of a page's objects so that the overall page requires less time to load.
