{"id":9092,"date":"2015-04-17T08:14:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T07:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=9092"},"modified":"2015-04-17T08:17:19","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T07:17:19","slug":"ofcoms-new-ceo-hints-at-uk-telecoms-and-broadband-deregulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/04\/ofcoms-new-ceo-hints-at-uk-telecoms-and-broadband-deregulation.html","title":{"rendered":"Ofcom&#8217;s New CEO Hints at UK Telecoms and Broadband Deregulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> might be pleased to hear that the new boss of the United Kingdom\u2019s communications and media regulator, Sharon White, is considering whether the entry of &#8220;<em>newer players and technology<\/em>&#8221; into the country&#8217;s Internet access and telecoms market should result in a &#8220;<em>lighter approach<\/em>&#8221; to regulation.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At the end of last year <strong>Sharon White<\/strong>, an ex-Treasury official and economics graduate with 25 years&#8217; of experience working in the public sector (albeit little telecoms knowledge), was formally announced to take over from Ed Richards in the technically demanding role of <strong>Chief Executive Officer<\/strong> (CEO) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/12\/ofcom-uk-appoints-hm-treasurys-sharon-white-ceo-role.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Officially Ms White has only just taken office, replacing acting CEO <strong>Steve Unger<\/strong> who briefly held the reins until March 2015, and as a result everybody has been keen to know her viewpoint on some of the markets most pressing issues.<\/p>\n<p>Ms White&#8217;s appointment couldn&#8217;t have come at less stable time for the industry, which is currently going through a period of significant top-level convergence in the broadband and mobile markets. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> is merging with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/eebroadband\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">EE<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/threeuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Three UK<\/a> is acquiring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/o2uk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">O2<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/bskyb\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Sky Broadband<\/a> is preparing to launch a Mobile service and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafoneuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Vodafone<\/a> are about to re-enter the consumer fixed line market etc.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time the way we all access and view Television is continuing to change, largely thanks to the new Internet-based platforms like Netflix, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/nowtv\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">NOW TV<\/a> and so forth, not to mention how TV content itself is licenced and sold (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> Sport vs Sky Sport etc.).<\/p>\n<p>Naturally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a> needs to move with the times and to that end the regulator has already launched its first major <strong>Strategic Review<\/strong> for a decade (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/03\/ofcom-starts-major-uk-strategic-review-of-all-things-broadband-and-telecoms.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), which among other things will have to consider what changes might be necessary in order to keep the market fair in an environment where BT&#8217;s merger with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/eebroadband\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">EE<\/a> could give the operator a big advantage.<\/p>\n<p>But those calling for more regulation of BT may be displeased to hear that White&#8217;s direction is already hinting at a more <strong>pro-deregulation<\/strong> approach to boosting competition, which may dishearten those who continue to hope that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a>, which maintains BT&#8217;s national fixed line telecoms network, might someday become a completely separate company.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Sharon White, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a>&#8217;s CEO, said (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/8a9b5ef8-e435-11e4-9039-00144feab7de.html#axzz3XXjVpMNz\" target=\"_blank\">FT Paywall<\/a>):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Convergence has started to happen in a very rapid timeframe, be it fixed and mobile [telecoms] or the blurring [of] the distinctions between the traditional telco and traditional media company. [Ofcom will] see if there are ways to promote competition. Are there areas we can deregulate? But with the consumer at the centre of it all.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>One of the big issues in my in-tray is going to be the internet. [The regulatory response] is something we are going to have to look closely at. We will certainly look at whether there is scope for a lighter approach given the entry of newer players and technology that we wouldn\u2019t have dreamt of a few years ago<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>White also hinted that Ofcom would look at the question of &#8220;<em>whether the pay-TV world needs a fundamental rethink<\/em>&#8220;, although this won&#8217;t take place until after the regulator has completed its on-going investigation into how the <strong>Premier League<\/strong> sells their live TV and related rights for football matches (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/11\/bt-sky-watch-ofcom-investigates-premier-league-tv-football-rights.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Readers might recall that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a> originally started the complaint after it aired concerns about how the costs for related content could have become too high. Indeed, in February 2015, Sky and BT broke a new record by spending <strong>\u00a35.136bn<\/strong> on a huge Premier League TV Rights Deal (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/02\/sky-bt-spend-5-136bn-huge-premier-league-tv-rights-deal.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>). BT continues to offer much of this content for free to their existing broadband subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>However White also cautioned that Ofcom were not planning a &#8220;<em>fundamental review of pay-TV<\/em>&#8220;, which suggests that if a probe does emerge then it will probably remain limited to specific aspects of Pay-TV content or services.<\/p>\n<p>But perhaps White&#8217;s biggest challenge will be in learning to understand and navigate the complex world of telecoms and Internet technology. Understanding how computer networks and the Internet actually work is a key requirement for being able to interpret and set new policy, yet White&#8217;s seeming lack of experience in this area could be a hindrance.<\/p>\n<p>As a side note, White is also the wife of <strong>Robert Chote<\/strong>, Head of the <strong>Office for Budget Responsibility<\/strong> (OBR). In addition, White does not appear to have any particular affiliation and has served under both past and present Government&#8217;s without any major incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BT might be pleased to hear that the new boss of the United Kingdom\u2019s communications and media regulator, Sharon White, is considering whether the entry of &#8220;newer players and technology&#8221; into the country&#8217;s Internet access and telecoms market should result in a &#8220;lighter approach&#8221; to regulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[474,472,36,38],"class_list":["post-9092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-bt","tag-business","tag-ofcom-regulation","tag-politics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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