Category: Regulation

The projects designed to evaluate different solutions for the final 5% of premises in the UK are now delivering with just enough volume that a BDUK report is able to summarise the findings.

While the phase 1 BDUK contracts all went to BT, the phase 2 was a mixed bag and changes to how the procurement will work may help to widen the net even more for remaining phase 2 or later phases.

Consumers signing up for broadband have had some degree of protection from a voluntary speed code of practice that Ofcom has now extended to the business sector.

A survey of 300 people has been used to rewrite the rules around how broadband can be advertised in the UK and from the end of May this may have ramifications for providers both big and small.

The BT/EE acquisition has been given the seal of approval by the Competition Markets Authority, so what next?

Ofcom in the past was seen as the faceless regulator but it is attempting to change that with its wave of consumer guides.

The Prime Minister has now formally announced the 10 Mbps at a CBI speech and Sky has issued a statement surrounding the new USO.

After some speculation in the early hours of 7th November DCMS has published the bare bone detail for a new UK USO on broadband, with more detail expected the week of the 9th.

The previous attempts to record everyone's web activity failed in the previous Parliament, however a new draft bill has now been published which introduces more limited data retention proposals.

The provisional report on the EE/BT merger is now available with a deadline of January 2016 for concerned people to raise any issues with the current proposal.