{"id":374,"date":"2008-08-29T11:53:55","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T11:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/?p=374"},"modified":"2009-01-25T22:06:42","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T22:06:42","slug":"ofcom-loses-the-plot-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/29\/ofcom-loses-the-plot-again\/","title":{"rendered":"OFCOM loses the plot (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The toothless government regulator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2008\/08\/29\/ofcom_mobile_assessment\/\">OFCOM has today suggested<\/a> that the UK&#8217;s mobile users should follow the ludicrous US model of being charged to receive a call. Yes you read that correctly: <strong>pay to receive<\/strong> a call.<\/p>\n<p>Hello, OFCOM, you are supposed to be protecting the telecoms consumer, not giving a blank cheque to the operators and free reign to cold callers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The toothless government regulator OFCOM has today suggested that the UK&#8217;s mobile users should follow the ludicrous US model of being charged to receive a call. Yes you read that correctly: pay to receive a call. Hello, OFCOM, you are supposed to be protecting the telecoms consumer, not giving a blank cheque to the operators [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[198,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}