{"id":14847,"date":"2012-03-29T14:25:19","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T13:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=14847"},"modified":"2012-03-29T14:25:19","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T13:25:19","slug":"the-isle-of-man-one-off-the-bottom-of-the-regulatory-pile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/03\/29\/the-isle-of-man-one-off-the-bottom-of-the-regulatory-pile\/","title":{"rendered":"The Isle of Man, one off the bottom of the regulatory pile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iomtoday.co.im\/news\/isle-of-man-news\/worse-than-ouagadougou-c-w-calls-for-reform-of-telecoms-regulation-1-4385819\" target=\"_blank\">fascinating\u00a0article\u00a0in Isle of Man Today<\/a> recently showed the quality of\u00a0regulation\u00a0in the Isel of Man in its true light:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>TELECOMS giant Cable &amp; Wireless is calling for urgent reform of the island\u2019s competition law and communications regulation.<\/p>\n<p>Its call came after it commissioned research it says shows we have one of the worst regulatory regimes out of 37 countries in which it operates worldwide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OK, this was\u00a0competition\u00a0and telecoms\u00a0regulation. But it blows a great big hole in the\u00a0Isle of Man's claim to be an exemplar for\u00a0good\u00a0regulation.\u00a0Although, as we all know, that's always been tosh: good and no\u00a0regulation\u00a0are not the same thing, and nor is good\u00a0regulation\u00a0administered\u00a0with a blind eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0fascinating\u00a0article\u00a0in Isle of Man Today recently showed the quality of\u00a0regulation\u00a0in the Isel of Man in its true light: TELECOMS giant Cable &amp; Wireless is calling<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/03\/29\/the-isle-of-man-one-off-the-bottom-of-the-regulatory-pile\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-isle-of-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}