Are Ofcom creating 'market distortion'?
News: 2nd June 2010 by Stef Loukes under Finance, Law & Music Business
Owing to the speed in which the bill passed through parliament recently, Ofcom have been quick to put forward their draft code last week, detailing a set of regulations for ISPs on how they should be approaching users they are accusing of copyright infringement. However, the ISPs themselves are more than concerned that the initial code is only applicable to those companies who have 400,000 or more subscribers. In fact, mobile operators and those ISPs with subscribers lower than 400,000 have not been factored into the bill at all. Andrew Heaney of Talk Talk commented that the exclusion of such smaller ISPs 'seems arbitrary and could lead to market distortion'.
Consultations on the initital draft will continue until July 30, and Ofcom intend to roll out the code in full early next year.
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