Jeremy Godfrey

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BAI chief executive Michael O’Keeffe suggested he had no interest in asking ministers for extra powers to apply updated ownership and control rules on existing media owners. Photograph by Matt Kavanagh
Cross-media issues not on broadcasting watchdog’s wavelength

Who remembers March 1991? Mary Robinson was three months into her presidency, while the United States had just obliterated Saddam Hussein’s army in th(...)

Eir headquarters: new ownership regime under French investor Xavier Neil seeks to repair difficult past dealings with Comreg. Photograph: Alan Betson
Comreg to send observers into Eir as part of €12m peace deal

Telecoms regulator Comreg has agreed a wide-ranging peace deal with Eir, the biggest operator in the market, to end a swathe of rancorous legal disput(...)

The difference between extending coverage so that it reaches a higher proportion of the State’s area, as against a higher proportion of its population, is huge, reports show. Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA Wire
Providing mobile broadband could cost up to €1.8bn

Extending mobile phone broadband coverage to 95 per cent of the State in geographical terms would cost €858 million, while extending it to 99.5 per ce(...)

Minister for Communication Denis Naughten: ComReg needs to be given additional powers to allow it to regulate the market effectively. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
Communications watchdog needs 70 extra staff, Minister told

The communications regulator is seriously understaffed with an additional 70 employees needed to help it carry out its duties, Minister for Communicat(...)

Gerry Fahy has 35 years’ experience in the telecoms industry
ComReg appoints Gerry Fahy as new chairman

Gerry Fahy has been appointed chairman of the telecommunications regulator ComReg. The appointment of Mr Fahy, who has been a commissioner in ComReg(...)

ComReg said consumers did not receive notification that they had subscribed to the ’Prize Club’ service or details of the cost.
Premium rate mobile service subscribers get €390,000 refund

Subscribers to a premium rate mobile quiz service which charged consumers up to €12.50 per week have been refunded €390,000.The Communications Regulat(...)