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Oftel Oftel is planning to deregulate the £300m market for telephone number information, in order to provide alternatives to the 192 directory inquiries service. 01-Aug-2001 Oftel is launching an investigation into telephone directory inquiry services, which could lead to the market being opened up to more competition. 22-Nov-2000 Oftel has been asked by the government to look at the possibility of achieving universal access to high-speed communications networks by 2005, ensuring that all households can receive services such as interactive TV and video-on-demand. 29-Aug-2000 The Independent Television Commission (ITC) and Oftel are to study the way that cable TV companies sell joint TV and telephone packages, due to concerns that it may be anti-competitive to refuse to supply the packages separately. 21-Apr-1999 Oftel has referred a dispute over the cost of making calls to mobile phones to the Monopolies & Mergers Commission, following criticism that the operators charge too much. 06-Mar-1998 Oftel is investigating new entrants to the payphones market and may force them to provide additional services such as access to other network providers and the ability to call freephone numbers. 17-Feb-1998 Oftel, the telecoms regulator, has reached agreement with the main operators to allow subscribers to keep their telephone numbers when they switch between operators, thereby eliminating a major barrier to competition. 31-Dec-1997 Oftel, the telecommunications industry watchdog, is launching an inquiry into the provision of undersea cable capacity to telecoms operators, following concern that new companies are not being offered fair terms. 09-Aug-1997 Kingston Communications, the Hull telephone company, is to undergo a further investigation by Oftel, the industry regulator, following allegations that it is cross subsidising its services and could be breaching its licence conditions. 30-Jul-1997 British Telecom is under pressure from Oftel, the industry regulator, to certify that it will not neglect domestic customers in its quest for international expansion, and this may become a new condition on the company's licence. 25-Jul-1997 British Telecom has been ordered by Oftel to stop a marketing campaign which was said to be aimed at winning back customers who have switched to cable operators. 04-Mar-1997 British Telecom is under threat from Oftel due to accusations of anticompetitiveness as BT tries to win customers for its new BTNet internet service. 24-Nov-1995 British Telecom is to increase prices of its phones, faxes and answering machines, following a ruling by Oftel that it was unfairly subsidising them. 26-Sep-1995 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2007