Category: Regulation

It is a bold claim but 2ndNumber is claiming that BT's decision to switch off PSTN is shocking and that their service is essential for those that want to retain their existing number.

We can't recall anytime the Public Accounts Committee has been solidly in praise of any Government project so criticism of Project Gigabit is unsurprising.

How the BBC is funded was pushed to the top of the news feeds by the Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries talking to the Daily Mail at the weekend.

The Summer 2021 Ofcom Connected Nations report is out and the overall UK full fibre picture has improved from 21% in December to 24% in May.

BT after reporting itself to Ofcom back in February 2020 now has to pay a fine for bad data on the EE fixed wireless service.

Openreach has been talking about building 20 million FTTP premises for some time but always with the qualification that it was dependent on various conditions. Now one of the big conditions has been met.

For those living in blocks of flats both large and small problems with wayleaves and slow responses from building owners can see lots of people stuck 2 decade old ADSL/ADSL2+ services in a good number of cases.

A new broadband switching regime is on the way but still almost two years before seamless switching between different networks will be a reality.

To make this very clear claims of overcharging and lack of compensation relate to those who took BT voice line rental directly from BT between 2009 and 2017.

Chasing the broadband deals for providers all using the Openreach network is pretty easy these days but for two decades there has been no regulated process for moving between DSL and cable.