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Ofcom’s Connected Nations 2025: Rising Data Demand and the UK’s Rapid Shift to 5G Standalone
ByRob Bratby 24 November 202524 November 2025

Ofcom’s Connected Nations Rising Data Demand and the UK’s Rapid Shift to 5G Standalone Ofcom has released its 2025 Connected Nations UK Report, reporting increasing mobile data demand and use, and the rapid expansion of 5G standalone networks. Ofcom’s Connected Nations annual report provides objective information on the UK telecoms market for operators, vendors and…

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Five eyes regulators pledge closer telecoms security cooperation
ByRob Bratby 6 November 202524 November 2025

Five eyes regulators pledge closer telecoms security cooperation Telecoms regulators and government agencies from the UK, US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand have issued a joint statement committing to tighter cooperation on telecoms security and resilience, following meetings hosted by Ofcom in London on 4–6 November 2025. The partners cite increasingly interconnected markets and global…

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New security obligations on UK telecoms providers
ByRob Bratby 27 June 202224 November 2025

On 17 November 2021, the Telecoms (Security) Act 2021, amending the Communications Act 2003, was enacted, with its provisions coming into force over time. The legislation: New primary legal obligations Primary duty on communications providers to identify, reduce and prepare for security compromise, and duty to prevent, remedy or mitigate effects of security compromise The…

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New UK foreign investment law to impact telecoms, digital and data transactions
ByRob Bratby 24 May 202124 May 2021

Summary By the end of 2021, many corporate transactions in the communications, data infrastructure, artificial intelligence, satellite and space technologies sectors (and some others) will be subject to mandatory notification to, and national security review by, the UK government. Implementation timetable The National Security and Investment Act 2021 (“Act“) became part of UK law on…

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Ofcom sets regulatory framework for voice services in the UK
ByRob Bratby 10 April 202124 May 2021

Regulation of voice call termination in UK

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UK Gigabit fibre access regulation and funding
ByRob Bratby 31 March 202124 May 2021

Gigabit fibre to the home in the UK: Ofcom finalises regulatory framework and Government announces funding package for the “last 20%” On 18 March 2021, Ofcom published the outcome of its Wholesale Fixed Telecoms Market Review (“WFTMR“). On 19 March 2021 the UK Government’s Department for Culture Media and Sport (“DCMS“) announced £5 billion of…

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UK proposes statutory backing for Huawei 5G ban
ByRob Bratby 7 December 20207 December 2020

On 24 November 2020, the UK Government started the legislative process for a new Telecoms (Security) law which will, when passed into law, provide statutory backing for their already announced policy objective to exclude Huawei (and potentially other ‘high risk vendors’) from the UK’s 5G (and other) networks on the grounds on national security. This…

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Europe proposes lower voice termination rates
ByRob Bratby 26 August 202026 August 2020

On 25 August 2020, the European Commission proposed a regulation to set Europe-wide (lower) voice termination rates of 0.2 euro cents per minute for mobile voice and 0.07 euro cents per minute for fixed voice. The introduction of these new termination rate ceilings are subject to: a three year ‘glide path’ (to 1 Jan 2024)…

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UK confirms it will mostly implement new EU telecoms law (despite Brexit)
ByRob Bratby 26 July 202027 July 2020

On 22 July 2020, the UK government confirmed that it would largely implement the European Electronic Communications Code – the EU’s updated, harmonised regulatory framework for telecoms – into UK law by 21 December 2020. This confirms the approach from that first announced in July 2019, providing welcome certainty, despite a change in the leader…

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How will Ofcom’s role change in 2020?
ByRob Bratby 3 July 20203 July 2020

On 30 April 2020 Ofcom published its work plan for 2020/21, which flags two new material upcoming changes in its role for 2020: becoming the regulator for on-line harms (aka dealing with ‘fake news’ on social media) enforcing the UK’s policy to limit/exclude Chinese network vendors from UK 5G network deployment. Ofcom explains: “…the UK…

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Ofcom consults on revision of (half of) UK’s general authorisation conditions
ByRob Bratby 3 August 2016

As anticipated, Ofcom yesterday started a consultation on its plans to update the UK’s Conditions of General Entitlement i.e. the obligations placed on all telecoms operators in the UK that rely on the UK’s general authorisation.

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UK Government publishes Digital Economy Bill draft
ByRob Bratby 5 July 2016

The UK Government today published its first draft of the Digital Economy Bill. As expected, it contains provisions addressing (text taken from Government explanatory fact sheet):

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