Oftel

Oftel has been superseded as the British telecommunications regulator by Ofcom (the Office of Communications).

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The Office of Telecommunications (Oftel) (the telecommunications regulator) was a department in the United Kingdom government, under civil service control, charged with promoting competition and maintaining the interests of consumers in the UK telecommunications market. It was set up under the Telecommunications Act 1984 after privatisation of the nationalised operator BT.

Oftel was accused by its critics of having been "captured" by BT, and of giving the dominant operator too much freedom to leverage its monopoly status in fixed line telephony into other markets such as ADSL.

On 28 December 2003 the duties of Oftel were inherited by Ofcom, which is the result of a consolidation of the British telecommunication and broadcasting regulators.

There are allegations of anti-competitive practice in marketing ADSL by BT made by Freeserve being overlooked by Oftel.^[1]

See also

organisation.

Notes

1. ^ Tim Richardson (2002-05-20). "Freeserve slams Oftel over BT Broadband". The Register. Archived from the original on 2009-06-23. http://www.webcitation.org/5hjZojEoj. Retrieved 2009-06-23. 

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