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The UK telecommunications regulator has issued a new consultative document on how to promote competition in services supplied over telecommunication networks; these services include electronic mail, on-line information services, video-conferencing, entertainment services and Internet access. This is part of a continuing process of consultation about how to regulate the changing telecommunications world, and set out details of proposed new regulatory controls. These include giving British Telecom the freedom to choose to set lower prices for independent service providers than for other users, and...

The Secretary of State for National Heritage, Virginia Bottomly, has issued an Order, The Broadcasting (Prescribed Countries) Order 1996, which will extend the existing regulatory and licensing powers of the Independent Television Commission (ITC) to all television services broadcast from the United Kingdom, regardless of which country the service was received. The Broadcasting Act 1990 describes one type of television programme service under that Act as a non-domestic satellite service. Part of the definition of this service is that it consists of the transmission of television programmes by...

The Independent Television Commission issued on 20 February 1996 a revision of its rule relating to the advertising of dietary supplements. The rule, which takes immediate effect, allows a broader range of people who may benefit from vitamin and mineral supplements to be identified within commercials. The previous version of the rule allowed only restrained advertisements for vitamins and minerals related to the dietary requirements of growing children, pregnant or lactating woman and elderly people. The Department of Health now recognises that a much wider range of specific groups of people may...

On 14 December 1995, the British Government introduced a Bill to amend the Broadcasting Act of 1990. The 116 pages of the Bill make new provision about the broadcasting in digital form of television and sound programme services and for the broadcasting in that form on television or radio frequencies of other services. The Bill also provides for the establishment and functions of a Broadcasting Standards Commission and for the dissolution of the Broadcasting Standards Council. Furthermore, it makes provision for the transfer to other persons of property, rights and liabilities of the BBC relating...

One of the unsuccessful appliants for a Channel 5 licence has failed in its attempt to gain judicial review of the decision of the Independent Television Commission awarding the licence to a competitor. Although the application has been granted leave to procede to a full hearing, at that hearing the High Court rejected the argument of the Virgin Group that the successful applicant, Channel 5 Broadcasting, had been allowed to enhance its bid after other bids had been submitted. The Court considered that it was not necessary for the applicant to have secured all funding required by the date of the...