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FCS have attended a meeting where Openreach are consulting with industry on furthering the Covid repair process. It is currently mandated, but pending further announcements from the government regarding thepossible end of lock down, Openreach are considering extended...

June's CSP meeting was held 30th June at 12pm. We had the following presentations form Openreach: Optical Portfolio Update - Simon Williams ​ EAD Portfolio Update – Mark Hitch​ Change to Openreach Service Managers – Juliette Scott ​ Service update Juliette Scott​ ASD...

The latest changes to Ofcom’s Competition and Consumer Enforcement Bulletin were made today and relates to the following cases: Investigation into BT's compliance with its obligations as a broadband universal service provider Investigation into BT response to...

Please see information below from the DPA The Government has reversed the decision to end digital right to work checks on 21 June, as initially planned. Instead, the checks that are needed to determine someone’s immigration status and right to work in the UK are...

From next year, British Sign Language users will be able to contact the emergency services using video relay, under new rules announced today by Ofcom. Under our existing rules, people with hearing or speech impairments can already communicate with other people over...

Save the Date! FCS are pleased to announce the next Business Radio event will take place on the Thursday 21st October 2021. We hope this year will be our first face-to-face event and look forward to seeing you all there. More details to follow soon.

FCS is engaging with GigaTAG project which was asked by DCMS to develop a set of recommendations to help support consumer and business migration to gigabit-capable networks and the services. You can view the report here

Ofcom has today published an evaluation of changes made in 2015 to the regulation of calls to non-geographic numbers. There were two parts to the changes: making 080 numbers free from mobiles as well as landline telephones; and introducing a new “unbundled tariff”...

The Railway Industry Association (RIA), the national trade body for rail suppliers, has launched a series of ‘Meet the Bidder’ sessions of behalf of HS2, from 17 to 30 June 2021. Taking place over two weeks, RIA will be organising a series of meetings between HS2’s...

The below update has been sent from Openreach: The OBARCC is the Openreach Board committee responsible for monitoring Openreach’s regulatory compliance.  This is our ninth bulletin, reporting on our meeting in April 2021. The Commitments Monitoring Office (CMO)...