Category: Regulation

The One Touch Switching platform has so far seen 100,000 switch orders and some 32,000 actually complete their migrations via the system.

It is difficult to tell how good or bad the One Touch Switching is going, as one one hand we are seeing 1,300 to 1,700 migrations completing on week days. On the other hand we have Ofcom wanting OTA2 to be involved to help resolve with figuring out which ISP is actually responsible for the old connection when someone starts a migration.

The ASA has issued a judgment against Vodafone when comparing its service to BT's.

Ofcom's announcement in December 2023 of how fibre services are advertised is due to come into effect today.

The issues around duct and pole sharing and particularly in areas where it simply is not working, or require joined up thinking to minimise new passive infrastructure are not vanishing.

Sir Chris Bryant MP has completed his Ministerial keynote address to a packed main stage at Connected Britain 2024, setting out a number of key points for the telecoms and tech industry.

As the clock strikes midnight, the one One Touch Switching (OTS) system will go live and all UK retail consumer broadband providers should be set up to process the transfer of services as of 12 September 2024. The new system is designed to simplify the consumer switching experience.

UK data centres are being classed as Critical National Infrastructure to help government respond and protect the industry should outages or cyber attacks cause resiliency problems.

Ofcom has announced it is broadly satisfied with BT Group Plc's regulatory separation of its BT Retail and Openreach wholesale arms.

In less than two years time the new Ofcom marketplace rules for the period 2026 to 2031 will be in place, and Openreach CEO Clive Selley has made a statement on what this may entail.