Topic: No "overhaul" for Communications Bill

[Simon]

The Government has scrapped its Communications Green Paper, saying existing communications laws don't need an "overhaul" to bring them in line with the digital age.

Instead, the Department for Media, Culture and Sport will hold a series of "seminars" to steer the contents of the upated Communcations Bill.

The Government is looking to update 2003's Communications Act, looking into network investment, spectrum plans, superfast and rural broadband - as well as wider issues such as press regulation. As part of that, the DCMS had been working on a Green Paper - a consultation document that normally precedes a White Paper, which is the basis for many bills.

The Green Paper was widely expected to arrive this spring, after an open letter calling for input from the DCMS in May 2011 - although newspaper reports are speculating the delay has more to do with the political troubles surrounding Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt than the Communications Bill plans.

"The responses to the open letter showed there was no need for a complete overhaul of the legislation but they did recognise the need to update regulations to ensure they are fit for the digital age," the DCMS said in a statement.

Read more: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/375031/no-overhaul-for-communications-bill

[Rik]

UUUUUUUUUU.

[Simon]

Eh? 

[Clive]

I think it's been reclassified to PG Simon. 

[Simon]

[Rik]

Turns.

[Clive]

As opposed to e-mail deletions.   

[Simon]

I thought Clive would turn up, at the mention of ewes. 

[Clive]

   After ten long years this is what it's come down to.   

[Simon]