Consultations and statements
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Consultation: Request to change Key Commitments for B Radio (Farnborough)
Ofcom is considering a Key Commitments change request for B Radio (Farnborough).
Consultation: Proposed changes to the conditions included in digital television additional service licences
This consultation sets out changes that Ofcom is proposing to make to the conditions included in Digital Television Additional Service (‘DTAS’) licences.
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Statement: Community Voice FM's request to change key commitments
- Consultation
- Statement
- Start: 24 November 2023
- Status: Statement published
- End: 09 January 2024
Ofcom has decided to reject the Key Commitments change request submitted by Community Voice FM Ltd, which holds a community radio licence for Middlesbrough broadcasting as ‘Community Voice FM’. The Licensee requested the following changes.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-2/community-voice-fm
Statement: Future of telephone numbers
- Consultation
- Start: 23 April 2021
- Status: Closed
- End: 02 July 2021
This consultation proposes amendments to the rules that govern the use of phone numbers in the UK.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-1/future-of-telephone-numbers
Statement: Proposed annual licence fees for 10 GHz, 28 GHz and 32 GHz spectrum
- Consultation
- Statement
- Start: 19 July 2022
- Status: Statement published
- End: 12 January 2023
In this statement we set out our decision on the level of annual licence fees for 10 GHz, 28 GHz and 32 GHz spectrum.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-1/annual-licence-fees-10-28-and-32-ghz-spectrum
Statement: Rivada Space Networks GmbH - application for non-geostationary earth station network licence
- Consultation
- Statement
- Start: 19 October 2023
- Status: Statement published
- End: 16 November 2023
This document sets out Ofcom’s decision to grant a non-geostationary Earth Station Network licence to Rivada Space Networks GmbH.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-3/rivada-space-networks-gmbh
Consultation: Request to change Key Commitments for B Radio (Farnborough)
- Consultation
- Start: 26 February 2024
- Status: Open
- End: 25 March 2024
Ofcom is considering a Key Commitments change request for B Radio (Farnborough).
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-3/change-key-commitments-b-radio-farnborough
Consultation: Resilience guidance
- Consultation
- Start: 08 December 2023
- Status: Closed
- End: 01 March 2024
In this consultation, we are proposing to update our existing resilience guidance to provide greater clarity on how providers of public electronic communications networks and services can comply with their security duties under a new framework for security and resilience that came into force in October 2022.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-1/resilience-guidance
Consultation: Proposed changes to the conditions included in digital television additional service licences
- Consultation
- Start: 21 February 2024
- Status: Open
- End: 17 April 2024
This consultation sets out changes that Ofcom is proposing to make to the conditions included in Digital Television Additional Service (‘DTAS’) licences.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-1/proposed-licence-condition-changes
Statement: Quick, easy and reliable switching
- Consultation
- Statement
- Start: 03 February 2021
- Status: Statement published
- End: 09 November 2021
Ofcom has confirmed proposed amendments to our General Conditions to give effect to these decisions from 3 April 2023.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-2/simpler-broadband-switching
Consultation: Proposal to apply Code powers to Artemis Fibre Limited
- Consultation
- Start: 13 February 2024
- Status: Closed
- End: 15 March 2024
We are proposing to apply the electronic communications code to Artemis Fibre Limited and invite comments before reaching a final decision.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-3/proposal-to-apply-code-powers-to-artemis-fibre-limited
Statement: Request from Sunrise Radio to add its Greater London AM licence to the list of “approved licences”
- Consultation
- Statement
- Start: 08 September 2023
- Status: Statement published
- End: 06 October 2023
Statement on request from Sunrise Radio to add its Greater London AM licence to the list of “approved licences”.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-3/local-radio-licence-renewal-request-from-sunrise-radio
Consultation: Notice of proposals to make the Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 2024
- Consultation
- Start: 12 February 2024
- Status: Closed
- End: 12 March 2024
Consultation on regulations to update the fees for Wireless Telegraphy Act licences.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-3/proposals-to-update-the-fees-for-wireless-telegraphy-act-licences
Statement: Mobile phone repeaters - Changes to the Wireless Telegraphy Regulations 2022
- Consultation
- Statement
- Start: 24 October 2023
- Status: Statement published
- End: 04 December 2023
In October 2023 we published a consultation proposing to remove the requirement for 4G repeaters to also repeat 2G/3G signals.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-3/mobile-phone-repeaters
Consultation: Tackling scam calls – expecting providers to block more calls with spoofed numbers
- Consultation
- Start: 01 February 2024
- Status: Open
- End: 28 March 2024
We are proposing to update our Calling Line Identification guidance to confirm that providers are expected to identify and block scam calls.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-2/updating-cli-guidance-to-tackle-scam-calls
Consultation: Analogue Radio Technical Code
- Consultation
- Start: 26 January 2024
- Status: Open
- End: 22 March 2024
Ofcom is consulting on updates to our Site Engineering Code for Analogue Radio Broadcast Transmission Systems.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-2/analogue-radio-technical-code
Call for input: The future of the universal postal service
- Consultation
- Start: 24 January 2024
- Status: Open
- End: 03 April 2024
This call for input sets out evidence that suggests the universal service needs to change to better align with the needs of consumers and to ensure it can continue to be affordable and sustainable in the future. We are seeking input from all interested parties on our assessment, so there can be an informed public debate on how the specification should be modernised for the future.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-1/the-future-of-the-universal-postal-service
Statement: Review of Second Class safeguard caps 2024
- Consultation
- Statement
- Start: 26 June 2023
- Status: Statement published
- End: 01 September 2023
Ofcom’s decisions regarding retail price caps on Royal Mail’s universal postal services to apply from 1 April 2024.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-1/consultation-review-of-second-class-safeguard-caps-2024
Statement: The BBC’s proposals for BBC Radio Cymru 2
- Consultation
- Statement
- Start: 16 November 2023
- Status: Statement published
- End: 14 December 2023
Statement explaining our decision that the BBC may proceed with its proposal to extend the hours of BBC Radio Cymru 2 so that it becomes a UK Public Service in its own right.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-3/statement-bbcs-proposals-for-welsh-language-radio
Statement: Request to vary the licensed area of the Bradford small-scale radio multiplex
- Consultation
- Statement
- Start: 11 January 2024
- Status: Statement published
- End: 08 February 2024
This statement sets out Ofcom’s decision on a request to change the area to be served by the Bradford small-scale radio multiplex service.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-3/request-to-vary-the-licensed-area-of-the-bradford-small-scale-radio-multiplex
Statement: Proposal to apply Code powers to Dense Air Limited
- Consultation
- Statement
- Start: 10 January 2024
- Status: Statement published
- End: 10 February 2024
We are proposing to apply the electronic communications code to Dense Air Limited and invite comments before reaching a final decision.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-3/proposal-to-apply-code-powers-to-dense-air-limited
Call for input: Principles for media literacy by design
- Consultation
- Start: 31 October 2023
- Status: Closed
- End: 15 January 2024
Help us understand what good media literacy by design should look like for social media, search, video-sharing and gaming services.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-2/principles-for-media-literacy-by-design