That they can now become an effctive regulator instead of sitting on their hands 90% of the time.

Ofcoms performance over the last two years has been nothing short of an incompetant disgrace.

"Also today, Ofcom promoted strategy partner Peter Phillips and competition partner Stuart McIntosh to the board. Phillips is an ex-BBC bigwig who flogged its Broadcast unit to private investors in 2005. McIntosh has a background in "boutique" management consultancy and is a former BT and IBM economics brain."

Hoover type management? I wish them well.

absoluely ZERO!

joke Icon - Joke regulator!

to hold a proper ELECTION voted by members of the public for candidates required to lodge LEGALLY BINDING election pledges?

Or will they appoint yet another "can't be bothered to deal with the real problems" man?

Somehow, I suspect it will be the latter, though clearly the former is well overdue.

I'll bet the new appointee won't have the balls to stop the commissionar selling off the freed up bandwidth after the analogue switch off. It's our bandwidth spectrum for the use of public broadcasting; therefore it should be used in a manner that the public want. FTA HD broadcasting. Not sold off to the highest bidder for services unknown.

Paris cos she knows how to give the public what they want on TV :)

All hail the leader of yet another bunch of unwanted, carefully selected from the useless third of our population. Good luck in your new post, presumably somewhere warm and comfortable like phormHQ.

7 years eh? gosh, how time flies when you spend all day sitting on your elbows.