A study has found that UK households use on average 456 GB of data every month. That’s the equivalent of 65 hours of UHD streaming on Netflix, or streaming more than 63 thousand 3 minute songs on Spotify. Using Ofcom data from May 2022, the analysis carried out by BroadbandUK took into account Gigabytes of […]

A third of UK children aged between 8 and 17 with a social media profile have an adult user age after signing up with a false date of birth, according to research commissioned by comms regulator Ofcom. Yonder Consulting found that the majority of children aged between 8 and 17 (77 per cent) who use […]

The roll-out of full-fibre broadband continues apace, as the number of UK homes with access to it jumps by more than 50 per cent in a year, according to research from regulator Ofcom. Ofcom’s Connected Nations autumn update reports that 37 per cent of households can now get full fibre, which is more reliable and […]

Having earlier announced it was to examine the position of Amazon, Microsoft and Google in cloud services, as part of a new programme of work to ensure that digital communications markets are working well for people and businesses in the UK, comms regulator Ofcom has formally launched a market study under the Enterprise Act 2002 […]

UK comms regulator Ofcom is urging telecoms firms to do more to support their customers through the cost-of-living crisis, as new research reveals record numbers of households are struggling to afford their communications services. Ofcom’s annual affordability study finds that nearly a third (29 per cent) of customers – around 8 million households – are […]

Lord (Michael) Grade, the Chair of UK broadcast regulator Ofcom, has declared that it “will not and should not regulate the culture wars”. Delivering a keynote speech at RTS London Convention 2022, his first since taking on the role in May 2022, industry veteran Grade noted the role Ofcom would be playing in the implementation […]

The BBC has confirmed two new appointments to the Executive Committee. Alan Dickson has been appointed Chief Financial Officer. Alan joined the BBC in 1995 and has most recently been the Chief Financial and Operations Officer for BBC News. He will take up his new role later this year. Dickson says: “Starting off in BBC […]

UK comms regulator Ofcom is to examine the position of Amazon, Microsoft and Google in cloud services, as part of a new programme of work to ensure that digital communications markets are working well for people and businesses in the UK. According to Ofcom, cloud computing is a huge and fast-growing market, which uses remote […]

SpaceX’s VP of Commercial Sales, Jonathan Hofeller, told delegates at the recent Euroconsult World Satellite Business Week that its Starlink broadband-by-satellite system now has some 700,000 subscribers. He added that recent subscriber price reductions are further boosting subscriber numbers. Those price reduction are designed to achieve closer parity with Starlink’s US pricing. The discounts have […]

UK broadcast regulator Ofcom has published a summary of its role in relation to the BBC’s proposed changes to its news services. In April 2023, the BBC intends to bring BBC News in the UK and World News together, into a single TV channel called BBC News. Under the Charter, the BBC is required to […]