Political Monitor 10/08/2018

Broadband Labour consultation on Digital Infrastructure Labour Shadow Digital Minister, Liam Byrne MP, has published a paper on digital infrastructure for consultation citing access to broadband as a “critical national infrastructure priority”. To keep up with...

August Newsletter

ISPA Policy Groups hard at work Despite Parliament winding down for the summer, it has been a busy month of broadband policy, with big announcements from both DCMS and Ofcom. Both the DCMS Future Telecoms Infrastructure Review (FTIR) and Ofcom’s subsequent strategy...

Political Monitor 26/07/2018

ISPA Cyber Security Survey ISPA is running a survey for members on cyber security and we would be grateful if you could take 10 minutes or so to fill out the survey, which can be found here. The aim of the survey is to get an industry wide perspective on cyber...

Political Monitor 20/07/2018

ISPA Cyber Security Survey ISPA is running a survey for members on cyber security and we would be grateful if you could take 10 minutes or so to fill out the survey, which can be found here. The aim of the survey is to get an industry wide perspective on cyber...

Political Monitor 13/07/2018

Government Update Jeremy Wright replaces Hancock as Digital Secretary The Cabinet reshuffle on Monday saw Matt Hancock MP move the Department of Heath and Social Care with Jeremy Wright QC MP moving to take over his brief as DCMS Secretary. Margot James MP remains in...

Political Monitor 06/07/2018

Broadband Parliamentary Question Stephen Timms MP raised the issue of business rating on telecommunications infrastructure in a Parliamentary Question to the local government Minister Rishi Sunak MP. Sunak highlighted the existing business rates relief for new fibre...

July Newsletter

Internet policy hots up over the summer The busy summer period has seen ISPA working with members, Government and Parliament on live policy issues. ISPA responded to the Consumer Green Paper and whilst supportive of appropriate, targeted measures we called for the...

Political Monitor 29/06/2018

Broadband  Ombudsman Services publish guidelines to updated General Conditions   In September 2017, Ofcom published the results of its review of the General Conditions. The revised General Conditions come into effect on 1 October 2018 and include a range of new...