Ofcom
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New rules will guarantee broadband and landline users compensation for delayed repairs and missed appointments
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Customers whose faults aren’t repaired within 2 working days will get an automatic credit of £8 on their account for each subsequent day’s delay, while customers whose initial installation date is missed will receive £5 for each day they’re without service.
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Taking over Fox and Sky could see Disney competing against its own ESPN brand in the UK
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If the deal went ahead, and assuming it pushed on with the planned takeover of Sky, Disney would become the UK’s biggest pay-TV provider with a dominant status in sports broadcasting. But there’s a small local irony at play.
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BT Sport raises prices for Sky and TalkTalk customers
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The channels are the exclusive UK home of the Champions League and Europa League, Aviva Premiership Rugby, Australian Cricket – including the Ashes, plus several domestic European football leagues.
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New Ofcom rules requires BBC to provide annual diversity report and more regional output
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Coming into effect from January, the rules require the channels to show at least 6,000 hours of programmes “which are of specific interest to the nations and regions,” of which 95% must be made in the areas to which they relate.
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New rules would let customers quit broadband contracts penalty free if ISPs fail to deliver advertised speeds
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Telecoms regulator Ofcom has published a series of proposed changes to its Codes of Practice which would improve the pre-sales information customers receive about their likely speeds and let them walk away it ISPs failed to deliver.
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Sky “disappointed” at latest delay to Fox’s takeover bid
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The companies announced plans for the deal, which would see 21st Century Fox buy the 61% of Sky it doesn’t already own, last December.