Category: Regulation

With the push by the Government to push the UK from being a little fibre Britain to a big fibre Britain a renewed investigation by the EU into the existing business rates regime comes at a bad time.

Ofcom has announced a set of proposals that will strengthen the Broadband Speeds Code of Practice and extend things like peak and off-peak speeds to operators like Virgin Media and others.

The Competition Markets Authority has published its report on comparison tools and this means its time to highlight some of the nice tweaks we have compared to even some of the approved comparison sites.

Ofcom is firmly wearing its consumer protection hard hat today with its latest changes to the General Conditions that telephone and broadband services in the UK operate under.

The news at the weekend for 6 Gigabit full fibre pilots was exciting for a short while, but we think the reality may be very different leaving the public short changed.

Tax relief so that firms deploying new fibre can avoid paying business rates on it for five years, back dated to April 2017 is edging ever closer to being reality.

It seems there is some displeasure at how the broadband USO is progressing and how it fits in or does not fit in with the R100 plan for Scotland.

The latest massive report from Ofcom reveals what many already know and that the national TV viewing habits are changing with 8 out of 10 adults using catch-up TV or streaming services like Netflix.

Headlines are all important and we look for some facts in the Broadbad 2.0 report which has been endorsed by 57 MPs.

The Digital Economy Bill contained sections about age verification for pornography and this looks set to be in place for April 2018 and is part of the Governments push to making the Internet a safe place for children.