Ofcom Receive Euro Redundancy Notice

[Jacques]

Times, they are a changin'

"The European Union is planning to seize regulatory control over the UK's communications sector in a plan that government officials have branded ?harmonization by force,? a report from the UK's Daily Mail said.

The report said the idea was being promoted by EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media Viviane Reding.

But regulators and senior industry figures were queueing up to scrap the proposals, the report said.

The plan suggested that national regulators should give up powers to a new European central power. It would effectively be in control of regulating all broadcasting, telecom and the Internet, the report said.

The proposal is that Europe should be able to veto any penalty demanded by a national regulator. We are not happy with this. The impact could be enormous, Alex Blowers, international director of Ofcom, the UK communications watchdog, was quoted as saying."

[Jacques]

Oops!!! Forgot his quote:

"Giving every national decision a further layer of regulation would not only rob local regulators of power but add a needless layer of complex red tape, Blowers claimed, according to the report."