The first phase of the system is due to be in place in 2011, with the subsequent phases rolling out around 2015, 2018 and 2020, he said.

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Ofcom also proposed that the changing nature of TV would mean that ITV1 should be allowed to phase out an hour-and-a-half of non-news regional programming a week in 2005, with some of those responsibilities passing to the BBC.

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That said, one of the things New Directions does that we really like is point out that while the idea of taking control of your working life can be initially unsettling, you come to this new phase with far more skills than you initially may have thought.

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