Political Monitor 09/10/2020

Broadband Ofcom publish Mobile Matters report 2020 The report sought to understand the changing ways people are using their mobile devices. To do this, Ofcom analysed crowdsourced data collected between January and April 2020 from around 200,000 Android devices across...

Political monitor 02/10/2020

Broadband Ofcom publish update to their annual Plan of Works Ofcom have published an updated annual Plan of Works. The paper serves as a half-yearly update to the activities and milestones in their 2020/21 work programme following the first quarterly update, published...

Political Monitor 25/09/2020

Broadband ISPA gives evidence to DCMS Committee ISPA Chair, Andrew Glover, gave evidence as part of the DCMS Committee inquiry into broadband and the road to 5G. ISPA was joined by fellow witnesses Malcolm Corbett, from INCA  and Hamish Macleod, of Mobile UK. Some key...

Political Monitor 18/09/2020

Ofcom Philip Marnick, Ofcom’s spectrum group director, has been awarded 5G Week’s ‘leading individual ‘champion’ of 5G’ award. The awards aim to recognise the best examples of 5G adoption, uses and rollout worldwide. Marnick’s role in overseeing how spectrum is...

Political Monitor 11/09/2020

Ofcom Ofcom Publish Connected Nations Update: Summer 2020 On Thursday, Ofcom published their latest Connected Nations update for Summer 2020 which is based on coverage and service availability information received from communications providers. Some key findings...

Political Monitor 04/09/2020

Broadband Ministers call on councils to help deliver digital connectivity ambitions Last week, Digital Infrastructure Minister Matt Warman and Local Government Minister Simon Clarke, wrote to local authorities setting out how they can help boost gigabit broadband...