Contents

• About Oftel
• Broadcasting
• Competition
• Consumer issues
• Fair trading
• General approvals and general variations
• Information and feedback
• Information superhighway and future services
• Licensing
• Mergers, alliances and affinity deals
• Numbering
• Orders and determinations
• Pricing and price control
• Technical
• Relevant publications from UK and other Government departments
• Oftel responses to UK and other Government consultations

About Oftel

• Oftel Management Plan 1998–99 Projects, Programmes and their Managers – Oftel reorganisation (11/98)
• Oftel’s Draft Work programme for 1998/99 and beyond – (3/98)
• Oftel’s Draft Work programme for 1998/99 and beyond – Summary Guide (3/98)
• Improving Accountability: further steps – Statement (2/98)
• Consulting on Oftel’s work programme 1998/99 (2/98)
• Dealing with Anti-Competitive Behaviour – Oftel Guide (12/97)
• Oftel’s Management Plan for 1997/98 and Beyond (6/97)
• Improving Accountability – Consultative Document (7/97)
• Oftel’s Annual Report for 1996 – £20 from the Stationery Office or Oftel’s Research and Intelligence Unit (3/97)
• Oftel’s Management Plan for 1996/97 and Beyond (5/96)
• Oftel – Working for Customers – Consumer Guide (4/96)
• Oftel’s Plan for 1995/96 and Beyond – Statement (11/95)

Broadcasting

• Oftel’s response to the European Commission’s working document summarising the results of the public consultation on the Green paper on the Convergence of the Telecommunications, Media and Information Technology sectors. – Response (11/98)
• Digital television and interactive services: ensuring access on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms – Consultative Document (3/98)
• Beyond the telephone, the television and the PC – Regulation of the electronic communications industry – (3/98)
• Conditional Access Charges for Digital Television – Statement (2/98)
• Beyond The Telephone, The Television and The PC – II – Oftel’s first submission to the Culture Media and Sports Select Committee Inquiry into audio-visual communications and the regulation of broadcasting (1/98)
• Bundling in the pay television market – Oftel submission to ITC (12/97)
• Pricing of Conditional Access Services for Digital Television – Consultative Document (10/97)
• Extending the Regulatory Regime for Conditional Access Services – Oftel/DTI Consultative Document (7/97)
• Oftel’s submission to the ITC on competition issues arising from the award of digital terrestrial television multiplex licences (6/97)
• The Regulation of Conditional Access for Digital Television Services – Statement (3/97)
• Conditional Access – Draft Oftel Guidelines – Consultative Document (12/96)
• Competition Issues in Terrestrial Broadcast Transmission – Consultative Document (10/96)
• NTL Price Control for the Period 1997–2002 – Interim Statement (5/96)
• Submission by the Office of Telecommunications to the Office of Fair Trading review of the pay-TV market – Submission (2/96)
• NTL Price Cap Review – Consultative Document (1/96)

Competition

• Access to bandwidth : Bringing higher bandwidth services to the consumer – Consultative Document (12/98)
• Collocation and facility sharing - Statement (11/98)
• Recovering the Costs of Carrier Pre-Selection – Statement (11/98)
• Interconnection charges for pay-as-you-go Internet services - Consultation Document (10/98)
• Review of Cable and Wireless Communications' status as a Well Established Operator - Consultative Document (10/98)
• Operators with Significant Market Power for the application of detailed rules under purposes of the EC Voice Telephony and Universal Service Directiv (10/98)
• Carrier Pre-Selection in the UK – (7/98)
• Interconnection & Interoperability of Services over Telephony Networks – Statement (4/98)
• Identification of operators with Significant Market power for the Application of Detailed Rules under Purposes of the EC Voice Telephony and Universal Service Directive – Consultative Document (4/98)
• Rights and obligations to interconnect under the EU Interconnection directive – Consultative Document (3/98)
• Identification of Significant Market Power for the purposes of the Leased Lines Directive (as amended) (3/98)
• Delivering the benefits of the information age to customers in Hull – Consultative Document (3/98)
• Identification of Significant Market Power for the purposes of the Interconnection Directive – Statement (2/98)
• Effective Competition Review – Statement (2/98)
• Guidelines for trials of new services – Guidelines (12/97)
• Identification of Significant Market Power for the Purposes of the Interconnection Directive (as amended) – Consultative Document (11/97)
• Identification of Significant Market Power for the Purposes of the Leased Lines Directive (as amended) – Consultative Document (11/97)
• Duct and Pole Sharing – Statement (10/97)
• A Prohibition Approach to Anti-Competitive Agreements and Abuse of Dominant Position – Draft Bill (9/97)
• Provision of BT’s Call Minder service – Statement (5/97)
• Interconnection and Interoperability: A framework for competing networks – Statement (4/97)
• Promoting Competition in Services over Telecommunication Networks – Statement (2/97)
• Oftel’s Policy on Indirect Access, Equal Access and Direct Connection to the Access Network – Statement (7/96)
• Promoting Competition in Services over Telecommunication Networks – Statement (6/96)
• Duct and Pole Sharing – Consultative Document (2/96)
• A Review of the Trials Provision in BT’s Licence – Consultative Document (2/96)
• Promoting Competition in Services over Telecommunication Networks – Consultative Document (2/96)
• Use of Directory Information – Consultative Document (10/95)

• Competition Bulletin (Issue 10) – (11/98)
• Competition Bulletin (Issue 9) – (8/98)
• Competition Bulletin (Issue 8) – (4/98)
• Competition Bulletin (Issue 7) – (1/98)
• Competition Bulletin (Issue 6) – (10/97)
• Competition Bulletin (Issue 5) – (7/97)
• Competition Bulletin (Issue 4) – (5/97)
• Competition Bulletin (Issue 3) – (1/97)
• Competition Bulletin (Issue 2) – (10/96)
• Competition Bulletin (Issue 1) – (6/96)

Consumer issues

• Proposals for Publishing Information on Complaints Received by Oftel – Consultation Document (11/98)
• Comparable Performance Indicators (11/98)
• Telecommunications services for people with disabilities – Consumer Guide (9/98)
• Telecommunications services for people with disabilities – Statement (9/98)
• Your directory information: changes to give consumers more choice – Consumer Guide (9/98)
• Provision of Directory Information Services and Products – Statement (9/98)
• Premium Rate Services – Letter to Chief Executives (8/98)
• Comparable Performance Indicators (5/98)
• Towards Better Telecoms for Customers, 1997/8 progress report – Market Research report (3/98)
• Meeting consumer needs for accurate telephone bills – Consultative Document (3/98)
• Telecommunications Services for people with disabilities – Consumer Guide (2/98)
• Telecommunications Services for people with disabilities – Consultative Document (2/98)
• A Better Deal for Payphone Users – Consumer booklet (2/98)
• A Better Deal for Payphone Users – Consultative Document (2/98)
• Improving Accountability: further steps – Statement (2/98)
• Report of the work of Oftel’s Consumer Panel on Retail Price Controls and Universal Service – Consumer Panel Report (11/97)
• Buying telecoms services – could your business do better? Business Update (11/97)
• Access to the Superhighway for schools – Statement (10/97)
• Provision of Directory Information Services and Products – Consultative Document (9/97)
• Provision of Directory Information Services and Products – Annexes (9/97)
• Your Directory Information – Proposals to Give Consumers More Choices – Consumer Guide (9/97)
• Universal Telecommunications Services – Statement (7/97)
• Improving Accountability – Consultative Document (7/97)
• Access to the Internet for Schools – Consultative Document (7/97)
• Towards Better Telecoms for Customers – Market Research Report (6/97)
• Comparable Performance Indicators (4/97)
• Universal Telecommunications Service – Consultative Document (2/97)
• Information highway: Improving access for schools, colleges and public access points.
• Education Task Force Report – Report (2/97)
• Meeting Consumer Needs in Telecoms: The Role of Consumer Representation – Consultative Document (10/96)
• The Future Regulation of Premium Rate Services – Statement (10/96)
• Improving Access to the Information Society for Education and Public Access Points – Statement (6/96)
• Access to the Telephone: Right or a Luxury? – DIEL Publication (3/96)
• Universal Telecommunications Services – Consultative Document (12/95)
• Telecommunications: Price Control and Universal Service – Consumer Guide (12/95)
• Effective Competition: Framework for Action – Statement (7/95)
• The Future Regulation of Premium Rate and Similar Services – Consultative Document (7/95)
• Comparable Performance Indicators (4/96)
• BT’s Calling Line Identification Services: Customer Attitudes and Awareness – Market Research (4/96)
• Benchmarking Reports Commissioned by Oftel – (3/96)
• Is Your Business Getting the Best Deal from Telecoms? – Business Update (2/96)
• Telecoms Services: Influences on Customers’ Choice of Suppliers – Market Research (12/95)

Fair trading

• Interconnection & Interoperability of Services over Telephony Networks – Statement (4/98)
• Personal numbering services – Consultative Document (3/98)
• Report by Fair Trading Advisory Body on Chargecards and Oftel’s view – (12/97)
• Dealing with Anti-Competitive Behaviour – Oftel Guide (12/97)
• Guidelines for trials of new services – Guidelines (12/97)
• BT Internet Services Investigation – Statement (11/97)
• Fair Trading in the Mobile Telephony Market – Statement (4/97)
• Fair Trading Condition Enforcement Procedure – (3/97)
• Guidelines on the Operation of the Fair Trading Condition – (3/97)
• Procedural notes of the Advisory Body on Fair Trading in Telecommunications – (3/97)
• Subsidy of BT’s Managed Network Services Business – Statement (2/96)
• BT’s Steps to Comply with the ‘Telephone Equipment’ Direction – Statement (1/96)
• Fair Trading in Telecommunications – Statement (12/95)
• Fair Trading in Mobile Service Provision – Consultative Document (5/96)

• Competition Bulletin (Issue 10) – (11/98)
• Competition Bulletin (Issue 9) – (8/98)
• Competition Bulletin (Issue 8) – (4/98)
• Competition Bulletin (Issue 7) – (1/98)
• Competition Bulletin (Issue 6) – (10/97)
• Competition Bulletin (Issue 5) – (7/97)
• Competition Bulletin (Issue 4) – (5/97)
• Competition Bulletin (Issue 3) – (1/97)
• Competition Bulletin (Issue 2) – (10/96)
• Competition Bulletin (Issue 1) – (6/96)

Information and feedback

• Table of international accounting rates – (12/98)
• Table of international accounting rates – (9/98)
• Table of international accounting rates – (7/98)
• The collection and publication of international call information – (7/98)
• Advanced telecoms services : awareness, take up and availability in the UK – a NERA report (7/98)
• Regulatory issues asssociated with multi-utilities – Joint paper by Utility Regulators (5/98)
• Comparable Performance Indicators (5/98)
• Review of Utility Regulation: Submission by the Director General of Telecommunications – Response (9/97)
• Collection and publication by Oftel of Information on the International Market – Consultative Document (9/97)
• Improving Accountability – Consultative Document (7/97)
• Comparable Performance Indicators (4/97)
• International Accounting Rates (All destinations) – Statement (12/96)
• Comparable Performance Indicators (4/97)
• Comparable Performance Indicators (4/96)
• Is Your Business Getting the Best Deal from Telecoms? – Business Update (2/96)
• BT’s Calling Line Identification Services: Customer Attitudes and Awareness – Market Research (4/96)
• Benchmarking Reports Commissioned by Oftel – (3/96)
• Telecoms Services: Influences on Customers’ Choice of Suppliers – Market Research (12/95)
• International Accounting Rates (12/95)

Information superhighway and future services

• Connecting the Learning Society: Oftel’s response to the Government’s consultation paper on the National Grid for Learning – (12/97)
• Access to the Superhighway for schools – Statement (10/97)
• Access to the Internet for Schools – Consultative Document (7/97)
• Information highway: Improving access for schools, colleges and public access points. Education Task Force Report – Report (2/97)
• Improving Access to the Information Society for Education and Public Access Points – Statement (6/96)
• Beyond the Telephone, the Television and the PC – Issues for the Customer – Consumer Guide (9/95)
• Beyond the Telephone, the Television and the PC – Consultative Document (8/95)

Licensing

• A Review of Telecommunication Licence Fees in the UK – Consultative Document (11/98)
• Statement on the principles of affordability – Statement (11/98)
• Review of Cable and Wireless Communications' status as a Well Established Operator - Consultative Document (10/98)
• Oftel Statement on the Review of the Telecommunications Act Licence of Kingston Communications (Hull) plc and Kingston upon Hull City Council – Statement (7/98)
• Modification of the Licences of Orange and Mercury Personal Communications (MPCL) – Statement (4/98)
• Delivering the benefits of the information age to customers in Hull – Consultative Document (3/98)
• A Review of Telecommunication Licence Fees in the UK – Consultative Document (12/97)
• Siting and Moving of Public Call Boxes – Local Authority Briefing (10/97)
• International Facilities Licences – Statement (7/97)
• Mercury as a Well Established Operator – Statement (6/97)
• Fair Trading Condition: Incorporation into existing telecommunications licences – Statement (3/97)
• General approvals and the revised and the revised SPL and TSL (Technical Update 69) – (2/97)
• Mercury Communications Limited’s Licence Review – Stage Two Modifications – Statement (12/96)
• Guidelines for the Operation of International Facilities Licence – Consultative Document (11/96)
• Proposed Abolition of Mandatory Regulation of Installation and Maintenance Requirements for Certain Equipment Including Private Branch Exchanges – Statement (4/96)
• A Review of Mercury Communications Limited’s Telecommunications Act Licence – Consultative Document (12/95)

Mergers, alliances and affinity deals

• Domestic Obligations in a Global Market – Statement (7/97)
• Guidelines for assessing affinity deals – Statement (7/97)
• Domestic Obligations in a Global Market – Consultative Document (3/97)
• UK Government Comments on Respondents’ Comments to the FCC on the Merger of MCI Communications Corporation and British Telecommunications plc – (2/97)

Numbering

• Number Portability – Functional Specification – (10/98)
• Developing Number Administration – Consultation Document (7/98)
• Freephone numbers: Options for the future – (7/98)
• National Code and Number Change Framework Document – (5/98)
• Non-geographic Number Portability costs and charges – Determination and explanatory document (3/98)
• Northern Ireland: new telephone prefixes Easter 2000 – Numbering Briefing (1/98)
• Numbering for Corporate Networks – Statement (12/97)
• Number Portability in the Mobile Telephony Market – Explanatory Note (10/97)
• Economic Evaluation of Number Portability in the UK Mobile Telephony Market (7/97) – Report
• Numbering for Corporate Networks – Consultation Document (8/97)
• Number Portability in the Mobile Telephony Market – Statement (7/97)
• Numbering Conventions – April 1997
• Number Portability: Modifications to Fixed Operators’ Licences – Statement (4/97)
• Number Portability Costs and Charges – Determination and Explanatory Document £10 (1/97)
• National Numbering Conventions – (1/97)
• The National Numbering Scheme – Statement (1/97)
• The Future Numbering of Premium Rate Services: Identifying Consumer Needs – Report (8/96)
• The National Numbering Scheme – Consultative Document (8/96)
• Implications for Telecommunications Terminal Equipment of Increased Length of Digit Strings Allowed in International Dialling (Time-T) – Statement (3/96)
• Inquiry by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission into Telephone Number Portability – Explanatory Statement from the Director of Telecommunications (12/95)
• Telephone Number Portability: A Report on a Reference under Section 13 of the Telecommunications Act 1984 (12/95) – COPIES OF THIS REPORT ARE AVAILABLE FROM HMSO
• Telecommunications Numbering Policy – Statement (10/95)
• Geographic Telephone Numbers – Consultative Document (6/95)
• Annual Report by the Numbering Scheme Manager (7/94–6/95)
• Numbering Bulletins

For further information on numbering, please visit the Numbering Information page.

Orders and determinations issued by the Director General

• Provisional order - Oftel acts against BT calls & access problems -  (10/99)
• Provisional order - Oftel acts against BT calls & access problems -  (08/99)
• Provisional order against BT under section 16 to withdraw Talking Pages call completion free offer (6/99)
• Final order against James E James for unwanted telesales calls – (7/98)
• Notice of final order to James E James Ltd for unwanted telesales calls – (6/98)
• Final Order under Section 16 – The British Fax Directory (5/98)
• Notice of final order Cellnet’s service provider payment plan (3/98)
• Draft final order under section 16 – BT reconnection offer
• Notice of final order on BT reconnection offer

Pricing and price control

• British Telecommuncations plc – A report on a reference under section 13 of the Telecommunications Act 1984 on the charges made by British Telecommunications plc for calls from its subscribers to phones connected to the networks of Cellnet and Vodafone – MMC (12/98)
• Cellnet and Vodafone – Reports on references under section 13 of theTelecommunications Act 1984 on the charges made by Cellnet and Vodafone for terminating calls from fixed-line networks – MMC (12/98)
• Determination under Condition 13.40 of BT’s Licence to disapply Condition 13.35 of BT’s Licence with regard to the interconnect charge for conveying traffic at the daytime rate between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland – Determination and Explanatory Document (11/98)
• Statement on the principles of affordability – Statement (11/98)
• Interconnection charges for pay-as-you-go Internet services - Consultation Document (10/98)
• Tariffing Issues: Bundling of  Inbound and Outbound Services – Statement (10/98)
• Consultation on removing the obligation on CWC to publish backhaul prices – Letter of consultation (10/98)
• Determination of the Payphone Access Charge – Determination (8/98)
• Determination of competitiveness of access to indirect access operator services from payphones – Determination (8/98)
• Oftel's submission to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission inquiry into the prices of calls to mobile phones – (5/98)
• Interconnection & Interoperability of Services over Telephony Networks – Statement (4/98)
• Determination of Final Charges for BT’s standard services for year ending 31 March 1997 – Determination (4/98)
• Prices of calls to mobile phones – Statement (3/98)
• Guidelines on the operation of the Network Charge Controls – Guidelines (10/97)
• An Assessment of the Interim 1996/7 Top Down Model – NERA report (7/97) (This document is also available in hard copy from the Research and Intelligence Unit priced at £10)
• Interim Charges for BT’s Standard Services for Year Ending 31 March 1998 – Determination and Explanatory Document (7/97)
• Network Charges from 1997 – Statement (7/97)
• Evaluation of the Efficiency of BT’s Network Operations – Strategic Policy Research £10 (6/97)
• Final Charges for BT’s Standard Services for Year Ending 31 March 1996 – Determination and Explanatory Document £10 (5/97)
• An assessment of the 1995/96 Top Down Model – NERA report £10 (5/97)
• Network Charges from 1997 – Consultative Document (5/97)
• Prices of Calls to Mobile Phones – Consultative Document (3/97)
• Cost Benefit Analysis of Equal Access – NERA report £10 (3/97)
• Network Charges from 1997 – Consultative Document (12/96)
• Reconciliation and Integration of Top Down and Bottom Up Models of Incremental Cost: final report – NERA report £10 (12/96)
• Interim Charges of BT’s Initial Standard Services for year ending 31 March 1997 – Determination and Explanatory Document £10 (11/96)
• Reconciliation and Integration of Top Down and Bottom Up Models of Incremental Costs – NERA report £10 (6/96)
• NTL Price Control for the Period 1997–2002 – Final Statement (9/96)
• The Future Pricing of IPLCs in a Liberalised International Facilities Market – Consultative Document (7/96)
• Pricing of Telecommunications Services from 1997 – Statement (6/96)
• Pricing of Telecommunications Services from 1997 – Second Consultative Document (3/96)
• Pricing of Telecommunications Services from 1997 – Consulative Document (12/95)
• Telecoms Price Control: the final phase – Consumer Guide (6/96)
• Telecoms Price Control: the second phase – Consumer Guide (3/96)
• The Methodology to Calculate Long Run Incremental Costs – NERA report £10 (3/96)
• Interim Charges for BT’s Initial Standard Services for the Year Ending 31 March 1996 – Determination and Explanatory Document £10 (1/96)
• International Direct Dialled Calls – Consultative Document (12/95)

Technical

• Voluntary code of practice on call answering and charging arising from the attachment of private equipment and systems to the public switched telephone network – Code of Practice (NICC) (10/98)
• Proposal to determine that BT has Interface Control in the supply of certain telecoms services – Consultation Document (8/98)
• Code of Practice for Network Operators in Relation to Customer Line Identifcation Display Services and Other Related Services (2nd edition) – (6/98)
• A consumer guide to Calling Line Identification Services – (6/98)
• Guidelines on Wiring – Guidelines (2/98)
• BT’s Proposals to withdraw it’s telemetry service – Statement (10/97)
• General variation to approval of certain apparatus for attachment to telecommunication systems offering Centrex or virtual private network services – Technical Update (No 68) – (1/96)
• Implications for Telecommunications Terminal Equipment of Increased Length of Digit Strings Allowed in International Dialling (Time-T) – Statement (3/96)
• The Customer Interface to Public Networks – Consultative Document (7/95)
• Code of Practice for Network Operators in relation to Calling Line Identification Display Services and Other Related Services – Code of Practice (12/96)
• Assessment of BT’s Response to the NERA Efficiency Study – Note for Oftel (4/96)

General Approvals and General Variations

• General Approval for connection of terminal equipment to digital network termination points supporting the EIA/TIA-612 and EIA/TIA-613 high speed serial interface (HSSI) to SMDS services (NS/G/1/Y/100037) (11/98)
• General Approval for connection of terminal equipment to electrically presented digital network termination points using an ITU-T recommended G.703 or ANSI T1.102 interface operating at 45.736 mbit/s to circuits supporting either ATM permanent virtual connection (PVC) service or other services where public network addressing is not specified by the connected terminal equipment (NS/G/1/Y/100036) (11/98)
• General Approval for connection of terminal equipment to electrically presented digital network termination points using an ITU-T recommendation G.703 interface operating at 155 mbit/s to circuits supporting either ATM permanent virtual connection (PVC) service or other services where public network addressing is not specified by the connected terminal equipment (NS/G/1/Y/100035) (11/98)
• General Approval for connection of terminal equipment to digital network termination points of point to point services presented at optical interfaces complying with ITU-T recommendation G.957 (NS/G/1/Y/100034) (11/98)
• General Approval for connection of terminal equipment to digital network termination points using an ITU-T recommendation I.432.5 or ETSI I-ETS 300 811 interface operating at 25.6 mbit/s (NS/G/1/Y/100033) (11/98)
• General Approval of mobile stations manufactured on the basis of the etsi tetra standards (NS/G/4/Y/100032) (11/98)
• General approval for connection of terminal equipment to Centrex or Virtual Private Network 4-wire interfaces of the public telecommunication systems using D.C. signalling (NS/G/3/Y/100031) (10/98)
• General approval for connection of terminal equipment to Centrex or Virtual Private Network 2-wire interfaces of the public telecommunication systems using D.C. signalling (NS/G/3/Y/100030) (10/98)
• General approval for connection of terminal equipment to Centrex or Virtual Private Network 4-wire interfaces of the public telecommunication systems using A.C. signalling (NS/G/3/Y/100029) (10/98)
• General approval for connection of terminal equipment to Centrex or Virtual Private Network 2-wire interfaces of the public telecommunication systems using A.C. signalling (NS/G/3/Y/100028) (10/98)
• General approval for connection of set top boxes to public telecommunication systems (NS/G/1/Y/100027) – (5/98)
• General approval for connection of cable, wire and wiring accessories for connection between certain telecommunications apparatus (NS/G/1235/W/100025) Variation No 1 (1/98)
• General approval for connection of ethernet cards to public telecomunication systems (NS/G/1235/W/100026) – (4/97)
• General approval for connection of cable, wire and wiring accessories for connection between certain telecommunications apparatus (NS/G/1235/W/100025) (2/97)
• General approvals and the revised SPL and TSL SA69 – Technical Update 69 (2/97)
• General Variation to approval of certain apparatus for attachment to telecommunication systems offering Centrex or Virtual Private Network services (NS/V/12345/V/100024) (1/96)
• General Variation under section 22 of conditions in approval of certain apparatus to allow the standard warn tone to be replaced by an alternative form of warning (NS/V/1235/T/100023) (3/95)
• General approval for connection of certain apparatus to a public telecommunication system for test and development or exhibition purposes (NS/G/12345/R/100022) (10/94)

Relevant publications from UK and other Government departments

• British Telecommuncations plc – A report on a reference under section 13 of the Telecommunications Act 1984 on the charges made by British Telecommunications plc for calls from its subscribers to phones connected to the networks of Cellnet and Vodafone – MMC (12/98)
• Cellnet and Vodafone – Reports on references under section 13 of theTelecommunications Act 1984 on the charges made by Cellnet and Vodafone for terminating calls from fixed-line networks – MMC (12/98)
• Report on access network and regulatory measures – OVUM Report (12/98)
• European Commission's Working Document Summarising the Results of the Public Consultation on the Green Paper on the Convergence of the Telecommunications, Media and Information Technology Sectors. – European Commission (7/98) SEC (98)1284
• Implementation of the EC Licensing Directive Changes to Existing Licences – Consultation Paper (DTI) (11/98)
• UMTS: spectrum auctions – Consultation (Radiocommunications Agency) (7/98)
• Telecoms Data Protection Directive Implementation In The UK - Draft Regulations (DTI) (8/98)
• Implementation of the revised Voice Telephony Directive – Consultation paper (DTI) (5/98)
• A Fair Deal for Consumers: Modernising the Framework for Utility Regulation – Green Paper (DTI) (5/98)
• Licence Modification Procedure: Proposed changes to the Telecommunications Act 1984 DTI Consultative Document(5/98)
• Regulatory Issues associated with multi-utilities. A consultation paper. (4/98).
• Green Paper on the Convergence of the Telecommunications, Media and Information Technology Sectors, and the Implications for Regulation Towards an Information Society Approach – European Commission (12/97)COM(97)623
• Implementation of EC Directive (97/51/EC) on the Application of Open Network Provision (ONP) in a Competitive Environment – DTI Consultation Paper (11/97)
• Implementation of the Interconnection Directive – DTI Consultation Paper (10/97)

Oftel responses to UK and other Government consultations

• Oftel’s response to the OVUM final report on access network and regulatory measures – Response (12/98)
• Oftel’s response to the European Commission’s working document summarising the results of the public consultation on the Green paper on the Convergence of the Telecommunications, Media and Information Technology sectors. – Response (11/98)
• Oftel Response to the Green Paper A Fair Deal for Consumers: Modernising the Framework for Utility Regulation – (5/98)
• Regulatory issues asssociated with multi-utilities – Joint paper by Utility Regulators (5/98)
• Oftel response to the European Commission on the Green paper on the convergence of the telecommunications, media and information technolocy sectors, and the implications for regulation (COM(97)623) – Response (3/98)
• Oftel’s response to the Select Committee on Public Administration’s enquiry regarding the Government’s White Paper – Your Right to Know: the Government’s Proposals on a Freedom of Information Act – Response (3/98)
• Bundling in the pay television market – Oftel submission to ITC (12/97)
• Review of Utility Regulation: Submission by the Director General of Telecommunications – Response (9/97)
• Oftel’s submission to the ITC on competition issues arising from the award of digital terrestrial television multiplex licences (6/97)
• UK Government Comments on Respondents’ Comments to the FCC on the Merger of MCI Communications Corporation and British Telecommunications plc – (2/97)
• Submission by the Office of Telecommunications to the Office of Fair Trading review of the pay-TV market – Submission (2/96)