Clause 2: OFCOM reports on infrastructure, internet domain names etc. There were a few amendments agreed in this one, so let's just go through them.

Amendments 10 and 13 were rather simple ones, just changing a bit of wording to remove ambiguity and make it read better. Nothing serious.

At the beginning of the second sitting on 12th January, Lord Clement-Jones made the point that, as there were over a hundred Lords suddenly making their way out due to the resumption of the Bill debate, it's never a good time to say anything important: "It is always useful to have a few general words to say at the beginning of any amendment when the Chamber is clearing. I shall try to do a "David Coleman" for a certain period of time until I know that the Minister is able to hear what I have to say".

I managed to learn a little about GPS and Galileo (which is another satellite system) as Earl Attlee confidently explained the details about those two and e-Loran, yet another system, but this time a terrestrial one rather than a satellite one. The point he was making was that e-Loran would be much more useful as it would be harder to jam in difficult times. He didn't get anywhere, though, but we may hear about this in the future.

No real controversies about Clause 2 (it's a boring clause) so it was passed with just the two simple amendments.

Clause 2 passed - Amendments 10 & 13 agreed