BBC Trust bashes together plan for director general succession November 15, 2012 THE BBC Trust met yesterday to put together a plan to appoint the next director general following George Entwistle’s weekend departure, with the most likely solution appearing to be a direct approach for a former candidate. “They decided that there was a pressing need to make an appointment as soon as possible,” one source close [...]
Ofcom sets out the rules for 4G airwaves sale November 12, 2012 BRITAIN will have wider access to high-speed 4G mobile services from late spring next year, the communications regulator confirmed yesterday, as it published final terms for an auction of airwaves to be held in January. The auction of 4G-approved spectrum, some of which was previously used for analogue TV signals, will raise at least £1.3bn [...]
It is time for the BBC to allow its viewers freedom to choose November 12, 2012 WHAT a mess. The BBC, Britain’s most powerful and influential media company, is in crisis; the resignation of its director general hasn’t been enough to halt the chaos. Radical changes are needed to reform, strengthen and preserve the BBC; if Lord Patten, the chairman of the BBC Trust, doesn’t want to introduce them then he [...]
It is time for the BBC to allow its viewers freedom to choose November 12, 2012 WHAT a mess. The BBC, Britain’s most powerful and influential media company, is in crisis; the resignation of its director general hasn’t been enough to halt the chaos. Radical changes are needed to reform, strengthen and preserve the BBC; if Lord Patten, the chairman of the BBC Trust, doesn’t want to introduce them then he [...]
BBC search for successor is on after boss quits November 12, 2012 THE SEARCH for a new head at the BBC started yesterday after George Entwistle’s dramatic Saturday night resignation left the broadcaster’s radio boss Tim Davie at the head of the organisation. Although he had not known about the Newsnight report that falsely implicated a former leading Tory as being involved in a child abuse scandal, [...]
German hospitals have stolen a march on 4G cost savings November 4, 2012 BATTERSEA saw the launch of the UK’s first major fourth generation (4G) mobile service last Thursday. Nicole Scherzinger of X-Factor chose a dress made up of live Tweets for the occasion, while a 4D light show transformed the grim exterior of Battersea’s derelict power station into a lively illumination of what a future super-fast Britain [...]
James Murdoch eases through BSkyB meeting November 1, 2012 JAMES Murdoch sailed through a shareholder vote over his future on BSkyB’s board at the broadcaster’s annual meeting yesterday, on the same day that it posted results above expectations thanks to moving more customers onto its “triple-play” contracts. BSkyB said it now has a third of its 10.7m customers taking pay-TV, broadband and home phone [...]
EE rolls out UK’s first 4G mobile network amid contract criticism October 30, 2012 THE UK finally saw its first high-speed 4G service switched on yesterday after years of delays and legal threats between the country’s mobile networks. EE, the parent of Orange and T-Mobile formerly known as Everything Everywhere, launched its 4G service in 11 UK cities and moved the first customers onto its new, third, network, also [...]
Shareholder pressure on BSkyB’s Murdoch eases ahead of meeting October 28, 2012 JAMES Murdoch is set to survive campaigns calling for him to be thrown out of BSkyB at Thursday’s annual meeting, with investors ready to approve his re-election as a non-executive director. Advocacy groups FairPensions and Pirc have hit out at Murdoch, claiming his father Rupert’s 40 per cent stake in BSkyB means he does not [...]
EE chief encouraged Apple to change iPhone 5 for 4G October 22, 2012 OLAF Swantee, the chief executive of Orange and T-Mobile owner EE, personally intervened to convince Apple and other smartphone manufacturers to make their devices run on EE’s new high speed “4G” network, Swantee claimed yesterday. The new EE service, the details of which were announced today, will be the first 4G network in the UK, [...]