How was the package implemented in the UK?
What is the 2002 Framework?
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Through the Communications Act 2003, which set up Ofcom and set out the framework for day-to-day regulation of the electronic communications sector. Ofcom is wholly independent of Government and reports to Parliament rather than ministers.
Ofcom brought together five previously separate regulators:
- Broadcast Standards Commission
- Independent Television Commission
- Office of Telecommunications (Oftel)
- Radio Authority
- Radiocommunications Agency
Individual licences, that set out specific rules for providing electronic communications networks and services, were replaced by general conditions of entitlement, a standard set of rules that electronic communications providers have to follow.