UK General Election 2010: Impact on the Regulation of Telecoms and Media

May 2010 | 10 pages | ID: U347FDF4191EN
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Abstracts

While telecoms and media have not featured as campaign issues, they will nevertheless be hot political topics in the near term following the election. Given the way in which the Digital Economy Bill was rushed through Parliament there are some issues which naturally must form action items for the next government. In this report we discuss what those items are likely to be and the possible direction in which the various political parties are likely to drive them.

Contents

Executive summary
In a nutshell
Ovum view
Key messages
The long-range outlook
UK broadcasting policy
The likely scenarios
The BBC
Channel 4
ITV
Local news
BSkyB
Broadcast and digital advertising
Digital media and copyright enforcement
Telecommunications
Ubiquitous broadband
Spectrum modernisation programme
Ofcom, BIS, and the DCMS
Institutional reform?