Category: Regulation

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.

Ofcom in its latest update to guidance for broadband firms is highlighting that its not enough to just through some connectivity at an area, you need to plan for things to break and avoid large areas losing connectivity for a long time.

We spoke (on condition of anonymity) to a few broadband operators about the one touch switching system.

Minister for Data Protection and Telecoms, Chris Bryant, has written an open letter to telecommunications infrastructure providers to invite them to a round table meeting on 12 September to discuss how telegraph poles are deployed following public concerns about their over-use and calls for them to be removed from 'permitted development' rights which allow these to be erected without planning permission.

The ASA ruled against NOW TV's website marketing claims omitting mention of advertising on basic plans.

Ofcom is giving phone providers six months to put in place changes that will see more calls from abroad that are imitating UK landline numbers to be blocked.

TikTok may be the place to be but they failed to deliver accurate data that Ofcom needed for a report on child safety.