It is interesting how Ofcom are doing this in the name of competition while they rejected Sky's attempt to increase competition and services on digital terrestrial via Picnic and appear to be quite happy with Virgin Media running a closed network.
EDIT: Then you remember who 'Lord Carter of Barnes' worked for prior to Ofcom - ntl - and all makes sense. Ofcom have always adored cable.
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Is this the deal that Murdoch has done for supporting the Tories? Has he said that the Sun will give its support to the Tory party, if "The Friends of Dave" see this little problem go away?
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Ofcom is a most 'New Labour' Quango, staffed to the hilt with New Labour-ites, it's where the New Labour worthy make mega-money.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/06/cameron_ofcom/
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That Ofcom should be top of Cameron's hit list is not surprising. It has more than 800 staff at its Southwark base, and its top brass are awarded some of the largest public sector salaries and benefits, including a total of about £400,000 for chief executive Ed Richards.
In political terms, Ofcom is seen as the most New Labour of quangos. Ed Richards' predecessor Stephen - now Lord - Carter went on to act as Gordon Brown's strategy advisor, and then communications minister. David Currie, who stepped down as Ofcom chairman this April, was previously a key advisor to Brown when he was Chancellor, and had been a major Labour donor.
Like Carter, Ed Richards worked as a Number 10 strategy advisor. Prior to that he was a Labour policy wonk and famously branded by then-BBC director general Greg Dyke - himself a Labour donor - as a "jumped-up Millbank oik".
Suffice it to say, the links between New Labour and Ofcom run deep, and the Tories most likely cannot wait to kneecap the organisation.
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