OFAC has issued so-called 'general licences' to help open the door for non-US companies to trade with Iran, but these provisions use broad language and do not fully account for the complexity of trade and investment by multinational companies".
Bradshaw, who replaced Andy Burnham in Gordon Brown's cabinet reshuffle earlier this month, confirmed that the government wanted to break the BBC's monopoly on the licence fee and use the £200m so-called "digital switchover surplus" from the licence fee to help provide universal access to broadband before the next generation service was built.
She got a pilot's licence - "to help me understand air warfare" - and learned to parachute jump (though it was too safe and controlled, she says, to be terribly exciting).
There may even by arguments for using parts of the licence fee to help secure the future of children's broadcasting which people feel very strongly about.
The government has invited the formation of independently funded news consortiums to bid for public money, likely to come from the BBC licence fee, to help run the pilot news services.
The BBC will ask people aged over 75 to voluntarily pay the licence fee to help tackle a 10% real-terms cut in its budget as a result of this week's controversial shotgun deal with the government.
DoCoMo alone is planning to spend some $8 billion a year over the next few years on its 3G service.Related items Only fakirs need applyFeb 1st 2001Some companies have been lobbying governments and the European Union for a relaxation of 3G licence terms to help them with their debts.
New culture secretary Ben Bradshaw, who replaced Andy Burnham in Gordon Brown's cabinet reshuffle earlier this month, confirmed to the House of Commons that the government planned to use the expected £200m so-called "digital switchover surplus" from the licence fee to help provide universal access to broadband.
The BBC has embarked on a series of partnerships with commerical media companies – including attempting to share iPlayer technology and striking a local news resource share deal with ITV – to fend off government proposals to top-slice the licence fee to help support other public service broadcasters.
These video-sharing deals are one element of the resource-sharing partnerships strategy the BBC is pursuing with commercial media companies as it seeks to fend off attempts to top-slice the licence fee to help support other public service broadcasters.
