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What (who) is Oftel - definition

BRITISH REGULATOR
Office of Telecommunications

Oftel         
['?ft?l]
¦ abbreviation (in the UK) Office of Telecommunications.

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Oftel

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 critics such as Freeserve 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 29 December 2003, the duties of Oftel were inherited by Ofcom, which was the result of the consolidation of five separate British telecommunications, radio spectrum and broadcasting regulators.

Examples of use of Oftel
1. But that wasn‘t good enough for the Government‘s then telephone regulator, Oftel.
2. Last time the issue was investigated, the mobile companies appealed to the Competition Commission after the then telecoms regulator, Oftel, ruled in favour of tough price controls.
3. In 2002 Oftel, a predecessor to Ofcom, rejected a complaint that its payment to Sky was too high for full conditional access.
4. The measures were the culmination of a long–running process to address termination rates, which began in 2001 with Oftel, the previous regulator.
5. Encouraged by its political masters, Oftel insisted on dumping the familiar 1'2 system and introducing more than 200 new numbers, promising they would improve services and bring down prices.