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Guidelines for CLI Facilities
We're consulting on our updated guidance for communications providers on the obligation to provide Calling Line Identification (CLI) facilities.
[7773] Review of the General Conditions of Entitlement
We're consulting on changes that we are making to the General Conditions of Entitlement – the regulatory rules that all communications providers must follow to operate in the UK.
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Wholesale Local Access Market Review: Further consultation on proposed charge control for wholesale standard and superfast broadband
- Consultation
- Start: 14 September 2017
- Status: Open
- End: 26 October 2017
We are consulting further on specific issues relating to our proposed controls of the maximum charges that Openreach can make for the wholesale access services used to provide telephone and broadband services.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-2/wla-market-review-further-consultation-on-charge-control
Consultation: Guidelines for Calling Line Identification Facilities
- Consultation
- Start: 19 September 2017
- Status: Open
- End: 10 November 2017
We're consulting on our updated guidance for communications providers on the obligation to provide Calling Line Identification (CLI) facilities.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-2/guidelines-for-cli-facilities
Quality of Service for WLR, MPF and GEA (further consultation)
- Consultation
- Start: 14 September 2017
- Status: Open
- End: 26 October 2017
This document follows our consultation on Quality of Service for WLR, MPF and GEA, published in March 2017 as part of our reviews of the narrowband and wholesale local access markets
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-2/quality-service-wlr-mpf-gea
Wholesale local access market review
- Consultation
- Start: 31 March 2017
- Status: Closed
- End: 09 June 2017
A consultation on proposals for regulation of the wholesale market – the Wholesale Local Access market - for services that use this fixed connection between the local telephony exchange to a home or business premises to deliver broadband or landlines.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-1/wholesale-local-access-market-review
WLA market review: Consultation on pricing proposals for Duct and Pole Access remedies
- Consultation
- Start: 01 August 2017
- Status: Closed
- End: 12 September 2017
This consultation concerns Openreach’s duct and pole access product, and includes detailed pricing proposals on the setting of rental charges.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-2/pricing-proposals-duct-pole-access
List of wholesale call termination providers and ISDN30 charge control clarification
- Consultation
- Start: 22 August 2017
- Status: Closed
- End: 22 September 2017
This document invites comments on our revised proposed list of telecoms providers that have significant market power in wholesale call termination and our proposal to include an additional service in our proposed wholesale ISDN30 charge control.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-3/wct-providers-isdn30
Consumer switching: Proposals to reform switching of mobile communications services
- Consultation
- Start: 19 May 2017
- Status: Closed
- End: 30 June 2017
This document sets out our proposals to reform the process for switching mobile provider, and to remove requirements on consumers to pay for their old service during a notice period once they have switched provider.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-2/consumer-switching-proposals-to-reform-switching-of-mobile-communications-services
Wholesale local access market review: Recovering the costs of investment in network expansion
- Consultation
- Start: 09 August 2017
- Status: Open
- End: 27 September 2017
This document sets out how we now propose to amend our charge control proposals in light of the additional relevant costs BT would incur, should BT enter into a clear and public agreement with Government committing BT to make the investment in universal broadband.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-2/wholesale-local-access-market-review-recovering-the-costs-of-investment-in-network-expansion
Local DAB multiplex change request: Mid & West Wales
- Consultation
- Statement
- Start: 30 January 2017
- Status: Closed
- End: 28 February 2017
An application by MuxCo Wales Limited ("MuxCo"), the holder of the local radio multiplex licence for Mid & West Wales, to extend the licensed area for its service to include Swansea, has been refused by Ofcom.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-3/local-dab-change
Wholesale local access market review: duct and pole access remedies
- Consultation
- Start: 20 April 2017
- Status: Closed
- End: 15 June 2017
This consultation concerns Openreach’s duct and pole access product, known as physical infrastructure access (PIA).
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-2/duct-pole-access-remedies
BBC performance
- Consultation
- Start: 29 March 2017
- Status: Closed
- End: 17 July 2017
One of Ofcom’s central responsibilities is to hold the BBC to account for fulfilling its mission and promoting its public purposes.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-1/bbc-performance
Call for inputs on 5G spectrum access at 26 GHZ and update on bands above 30 GHz
- Consultation
- Start: 28 July 2017
- Status: Closed
- End: 22 September 2017
We want information from stakeholders to inform our work to make spectrum in the 26 GHz band available for 5G wireless networks.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-2/5g-access-at-26-ghz
Improving consumer access to mobile services at 3.6 GHz to 3.8 GHz
- Consultation
- Statement
- Start: 28 July 2017
- Status: Closed
- End: 22 September 2017
This document confirms Ofcom’s intention to expand spectrum access for mobile services in the 3.6 GHz to 3.8 GHz band and sets out our proposed approach to existing users of the band.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-1/future-use-at-3.6-3.8-ghz
Recovering postal regulation and consumer advocacy costs
- Consultation
- Start: 27 July 2017
- Status: Closed
- End: 21 September 2017
This document is a consultation which sets out Ofcom’s proposed changes to the way we recover our costs of regulating the postal sector.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-2/recovering-postal-regulation-costs
Statement: Listed events - Six Nations Rugby Union Championship
- Consultation
- Statement
- Start: 19 April 2017
- Status: Closed
- End: 17 May 2017
Ofcom has received requests from the BBC and ITV for consent to broadcast exclusive live coverage of the Six Nations Tournament for 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-3/listed-events-six-nations-rugby-union-championship
Consultation on improving access to 5.8 GHz spectrum for broadband fixed wireless access
- Consultation
- Start: 27 July 2017
- Status: Closed
- End: 21 September 2017
This document consults on plans to enable access to additional frequencies for broadband fixed wireless access in the 5725-5850 MHz band, known as the 5.8 GHz band.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-2/improving-access-5.8-ghz-broadband-fixed-wireless-access
The BBC’s trading activities: Statement on requirements and guidance
- Consultation
- Statement
- Start: 29 March 2017
- Status: Closed
- End: 24 May 2017
See our statement and guidelines on the requirements we proposed to place on the BBC to protect fair and effective competition in how the BBC carries out its trading activities.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-2/bbc-trading-activities
Review of mobile donor conveyance charges for the period 2018 to 2021
- Consultation
- Start: 19 July 2017
- Status: Closed
- End: 30 August 2017
This document concerns the level of wholesale porting charges that mobile communications providers charge each other in order to recover certain costs associated with the provision of mobile number portability.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-2/review-of-mobile-donor-conveyance-charges-for-the-period-2018-to-2021
Decision to make the Wireless Telegraphy (Mobile Communication Services on Ships) (Exemption) Regulations 2017
- Consultation
- Statement
- Start: 31 May 2017
- Status: Closed
- End: 03 July 2017
We're propose to make new regulations that would enable passengers to connect their mobile devices (with 2G, 3G and 4G technologies) to a system providing mobile communication on board ships.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-3/mobile-on-ships-regulations-2017
Call for inputs: Helping consumers to engage in communications markets
- Consultation
- Start: 14 July 2017
- Status: Closed
- End: 15 September 2017
Ofcom is seeking views from interested parties about how we can further empower consumers and help them to better engage in communications markets.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-2/helping-consumers-engage-communications-markets