ISPs and telcos

Legal info for ISP s, VISPs, ASPs and telecommunications providers.

Below you will find a selection of the guides we think are most relevant to you. Visting any of these will give you access to other materials on the same topic.

OUT-LAW Guides

• Anti-competitive behaviour and the Enterprise Act
• Checklist for compliance with the Data Protection Act
• Dispute resolution
• TUPE - a summary
• Trade marks: the basics
• Data protection health check
• How to satisfy subject access requests
• Cookie law
• Disabled access to websites under UK law
• Email marketing after the Privacy Regulations
• The UK's E-commerce Regulations

Recent OUT-LAW News

• Privacy watchdog investigates Phorm
• Yahoo! wins sponsored links ruling in High Court
• City traders will be forced to record calls
• Truth, Lies and Broadband: rivals fail to ban Virgin ad
• Ofcom approves sale of £20 billion-worth of new spectrum

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Useful links

Warning: The links below are to legislation, some of which may be out of date. Some Acts may have been amended many times, but when you follow the link to HMSO's website you will not see the end result of all these amendments. So be careful before relying on what you read.

• Access Directive 2002
• Authorisation Directive 2002
• Communications Act 2003
• Electronic Communications (Universal Service) Regulations 2003
• Framework Directive 2002
• Radio Spectrum Decision 2002
• Telecoms Directive 1997
• Telecommunications (Data Protection and Privacy) Regulations 1999
• Universal Service Directive 2002