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Tanllan

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Re: Ofcom - Carter to Go
Reply #15 - Jun 3^rd, 2006 at 8:56pm

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Its strange that it takes so many overpaid employees simply for Ofcom to decide to no longer to carry out any effective or significant form of regulation of uk telecoms and broadcasting companies Roll Eyes

Come come, NGM. Surely you are being unfair. Is this not the Ofcom that refused to limit junk food advertisements, lest the ban affected advertisers? So they are effective - if not to the benefit of the Citizen-Consumer. Cry

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Re: Ofcom - Carter to Go
Reply #16 - Jun 3^rd, 2006 at 9:07pm

Tanllan wrote on Jun 3^rd, 2006 at 8:56pm:

Come come, NGM. Surely you are being unfair. Is this not the Ofcom that refused to limit junk food advertisements, lest the ban affected advertisers? So they are effective - if not to the benefit of the Citizen-Consumer. Cry

My Dear Tanllan,

The example you quote illustrates perfectly that precisely the same result could have been achieved far more cheaply for the uk taxpayer if Ofcom was simply closed down and all of its bloated, degenerate, overpaid and ineffectual cyphers of the uk telecoms industry thrown out on to the dark and cold streets of Southwark Bridge.

If we are going to pay a fortune to have a uk telecoms and broadcasting regulator and its hundreds of attendant overpaid executives surely it only serves a purpose if it prevents the organised price fixing and information withholding cartels of which most of the uk telecoms and broadcasting industries are made up. If however the preferred option is simply for zero regulatio then in my book that also then involves zero staff working for the regulator and the complete abolition of the regulator.

Of course if that little line of thinking was pursued much further then since Turkeys don't vote for an early Christmas perhaps Messrs Currie, Carter, Meek, Williams, Richards and co might suddenly discover a belated passion for actually protecting the best interests of the uk citizen consumer! Undecided

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Re: Ofcom - Carter to Go
Reply #17 - Jul 22^nd, 2006 at 6:51pm

Ofcom's annual report has been published - http://www.ofcom.org.uk/about/accoun/reports_plans/annrep0506/annual_rpt_0506.pd...

Total remuneration for the Ofcom Board members is as follows (figures in GBP):

Millie Banerjee CBE Non-Executive Member 45,719
Stephen Carter Chief Executive 440,667
David Currie Chairman 193,737
Philip Graf CBE Deputy Chairman 25,129
Ian Hargreaves Non-Executive Member 45,586
Richard Hooper CBE Deputy Chairman 60,869
Stephanie Liston Non-Executive Member 23,454
Kip Meek Chief Policy Partner 338,579
Sara Nathan Non-Executive Member 56,937
Ed Richards Chief Operating Officer 308,930
Sean Williams Partner, Competition 251,186

These people are being paid £1.8m annually to exploit the UK public by maintaining a corrupt NTS regime. Money for old rope.

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Re: Ofcom - Carter to Go
Reply #18 - Jul 22^nd, 2006 at 7:03pm

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Ofcom chief leaves early with industry on call

Stephen Carter can expect a flurry of phone calls from headhunters after the Ofcom chief executive revealed plans to leave the regulator at the end of July, three months earlier than planned.

Mr Carter will be available for hire in the media and telecoms sectors before Christmas, when his gardening leave at the watchdog expires.

Earlier this year the 42-year-old former chief operating officer of cable giant NTL hinted that he would like to run another media company when he leaves Ofcom.

Speculation has started that he could be a possible replacement for either ITV chief executive Charles Allen, who is coming in for fresh criticism for the broadcaster's poor share price performance, or for James Murdoch, should the BSkyB chief executive return to his father Rupert's News Corp in New York.

Full story here
Source: Telegraph

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NonGeographicalMan

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Re: Ofcom - Carter to Go
Reply #19 - Jul 23^rd, 2006 at 11:09am

idb wrote on Jul 22^nd, 2006 at 6:51pm:

Millie Banerjee CBE Non-Executive Member 45,719
Stephen Carter Chief Executive 440,667
David Currie Chairman 193,737
Philip Graf CBE Deputy Chairman 25,129
Ian Hargreaves Non-Executive Member 45,586
Richard Hooper CBE Deputy Chairman 60,869
Stephanie Liston Non-Executive Member 23,454
Kip Meek Chief Policy Partner 338,579
Sara Nathan Non-Executive Member 56,937
Ed Richards Chief Operating Officer 308,930
Sean Williams Partner, Competition 251,186

These people are being paid £1.8m annually to exploit the UK public by maintaining a corrupt NTS regime. Money for old rope.

Outrageous that they are paid as much as directors of large successful private sector businesses when the job is the same as a high powered civil servant and at least civil servants normally act in the pubic interest rather than that of cronies in private sector businesses

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Re: Ofcom - Carter to Go
Reply #20 - Jul 23^rd, 2006 at 7:20pm

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idb wrote on Jul 22^nd, 2006 at 6:51pm:

Millie Banerjee CBE Non-Executive Member 45,719
Stephen Carter Chief Executive 440,667
David Currie Chairman 193,737
Philip Graf CBE Deputy Chairman 25,129
Ian Hargreaves Non-Executive Member 45,586
Richard Hooper CBE Deputy Chairman 60,869
Stephanie Liston Non-Executive Member 23,454
Kip Meek Chief Policy Partner 338,579
Sara Nathan Non-Executive Member 56,937
Ed Richards Chief Operating Officer 308,930
Sean Williams Partner, Competition 251,186

These people are being paid £1.8m annually to exploit the UK public by maintaining a corrupt NTS regime. Money for old rope.

Outrageous that they are paid as much as directors of large successful private sector businesses when the job is the same as a high powered civil servant and at least civil servants normally act in the pubic interest rather than that of cronies in private sector businesses

And not just their salaries, but 3 of them seem to have got a CBE!!

If their CBE is for services to the telecoms industry, then Harold Shipman should get a knighthood for services to the medical industry, or Wayne Rooney should be rewarded to being a role model for good behaviour on the football pitch!!

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