Category: Regulation

Ofcom has published a new consultation on splitting up the ‘upper 6GHz band’ (6425–7125 MHz) to allow it to be utilised by both Wi-Fi and mobile at the same time, but in different locations. By enabling ‘prioritised spectrum sharing’, Ofcom says it will significantly increase the spectrum that is available for both services, which will […]

The Government has indicated its intention to legislate to improve access to broadband services in leasehold flats. It refers to three key problems which fibre networks face specifically in the case of leasehold properties: – (1) Identifying the correct freeholder or landlord is not always easy.(2) Some freeholders are unresponsive or have little incentive to […]

The Building Safety Regulator was created as part of the Building Safety Act 2022 that was a response to the tragedy that was the Grenfell disaster that resulted in 72 deaths in 2016. The Building Safety Regulator sets out to: These regulations impact the rollout of broadband infrastructure in higher risk and all other buildings, […]

Ofcom has today published a consultation to apply code powers to Baltic Broadband Ltd. Code powers are granted by Ofcom under Section 107(6) of the Telecommunications Act 2003 which allow telecommunications operators to roll out network infrastructure a bit like gas and water companies, skipping certain planning permission requirements. Baltic Broadband are based around Liverpool […]

The Advertising Standard Authority (ASA UK) has also issued a ruling upholding a complaint against Starlink, the Satellite service provided by SpaceX. The banner ads on Arstechnica in June 2025 promoting a free equipment offer with a normal £299 price crossed out and a £0 in place. Text below stated “Availability and price may vary […]

The Advertising Standard Authority (ASA UK) investigates advertising and marketing content and issues rulings which can uphold or not uphold the complaints. Today it has issued a ruling which upholds the complaint made against The One Broadband following mailers they sent to properties promoting their full fibre broadband service. What makes this ruling different, is […]

As a result of not identifying vulnerable customers and exposing some telecare users to the situation where their in home alarm device could not connect to its alarm monitoring centre Ofcom has imposed a fine of £23.8 million on Virgin Media. The failures that have led to this alarm happened in the period August 2022 […]

The Chancellor of the Exchequer announced the November 2025 Budget yesterday. Although the budget itself had very limited references to broadband directly, Chancellor Rachel Reeves, along with Telecoms Minister Liz Kendall wrote an open letter addressed to the CEO’s of UK telecommunications companies about consumer protection. The letter in full is detailed below (our highlight […]

Ofcom is consulting further on the Telecoms Access Review on Wholesale Local Access pricing. The Independent Networks Co-operating Association (INCA) have issued a statement on the importance of ‘pricing remedies’ in ensuring a competitive market. INCA has opposed the consultation on Wholesale Local Access (WLA) pricing remedies, which it says amounts to the regulator stepping […]

Ofcom has released its annual Connected Nations report, which aims to give a picture of how the UK communications infrastructure is performing and improving and to monitor the availability of both broadband and mobile services across the UK. This article focuses on the mobile network side of the report. 5G rollout Ofcom is monitoring the […]