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Broadband and mobile coverage checker

Enter a postcode to view mobile coverage by provider, or availability of broadband services (standard, superfast and ultrafast). You can also view the results as interactive maps.

How to report scam texts and mobile calls to 7726

Find out how to report an unwanted or scam text or mobile call to your provider using the free 7726 service.

Broadcast and On Demand Bulletin

The Broadcast and On Demand Bulletin reports on investigations into potential breaches of Ofcom’s codes and rules for TV, radio and video-on-demand programmes.

Telephone area codes: Find UK dialling codes for numbers starting 01 and 02

Look up UK dialling codes (or ‘STD codes’) by geographic area or the first few numbers of a landline phone number.

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Ofcom establishes Online Information Advisory Committee

Published: 28 April 2025
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New rules for a safer generation of children online

Published: 24 April 2025
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How Ofcom is helping children to be safer online – a guide for parents

Published: 24 April 2025
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Letter from Ofcom regarding mandatory age assurance requirements for services that allow pornographic content

Published: 24 April 2025
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Ofcom takes world-leading action to crack down on exploitation of mobile networks by criminals

Published: 22 April 2025

Our research

Electromagnetic field measurements near mobile base stations

Published: 23 February 2024

Last updated: 25 April 2025

Ofcom measures electromagnetic fields (EMF) near mobile phone base stations. We have been taking these measurements for many years, gradually covering more and more locations across the UK.

Open data

Published: 27 November 2023

Last updated: 25 April 2025

Ofcom’s open data is a mix of data from or about the companies we regulate in the communications sector, and the citizens and consumers who use them.

Boosting Children's Safety Online: User Controls

Published: 24 April 2025

This page contains details of an online randomised control trial to test different ways to encourage children to choose to use content controls to restrict exposure to harmful content during the sign-up process of a mock social media platform.

Resources for industry

Electronic Communications Code: Consultations and Final Directions

Published: 15 February 2024

Last updated: 2 April 2025

Consultation documents and final directions relating to the application and revocation of the Electronic Communications Code.

Register of persons with powers under the Electronic Communications Code

Published: 15 February 2024

Last updated: 2 April 2025

This register lists companies that have been granted powers under the Electronic Communications Code.

Ofcom's first year of video-sharing platform regulation

Published: 20 October 2022

Last updated: 27 March 2025

Ofcom’s first report on video-sharing platforms (VSPs) sets out what we found in the first year of regulation.

Notified video-sharing platforms

Published: 11 January 2024

Last updated: 27 March 2025

A list of video-sharing platform (VSP) services that have notified to Ofcom.

Operating a premium rate service

Published: 31 January 2025

Last updated: 20 March 2025

If you are involved in the provision of a premium rate service, you need to check if you are a regulated PRS provider carrying out a regulated activity within the meaning of The Regulation of Premium Rate Services Order 2024 (‘the PRS Order’).

Fixed telecommunications markets

Published: 14 April 2015

Last updated: 20 March 2025

The fixed telecommunications market is made up of a variety of different markets which we have reviewed in different formats over the years.

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