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New rules to help keep children safer online

Children in the UK will have safer online lives, under transformational new protections finalised by Ofcom.

Telecoms price rises: what are your rights?

If you've seen a rise in your home phone, mobile, broadband and pay-TV bills rise, find out what your rights are and what you can do about it

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Enforcing the Online Safety Act

Online platforms must start putting in place measures to tackle illegal material, while we have launched our latest enforcement programme to assess industry compliance

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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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Our research

Connected Nations update: Spring 2025

Published: 8 May 2025

This report provides a snapshot of mobile coverage and fixed broadband availability across the UK as of January 2025. It is an interim update to our Connected Nations 2024 report (CN2024), which was based on fixed broadband data from July 2024 and mobile coverage data from September 2024.

Connected Nations - Planned Network Deployments 2025

Published: 8 May 2025

Our 2025 forward-looking report examines the anticipated increase in fixed network coverage supporting very high speed broadband services by the end of 2027.

News consumption in the UK

Published: 20 July 2023

Last updated: 16 May 2025

Ofcom’s latest research into UK adults’ news consumption across television, radio, print, social media and other websites or apps.

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