Ofcom is the regulator for the communications services that we use and rely on each day.
As people communicate seamlessly online and offline, we now need to invest our efforts into making digital communications work for everyone
Ofcom wants to understand how adults and children in the UK use media.
Under the Online Safety Act, Ofcom's job is to make online services safer for the people who use them. We make sure companies have effective systems in place to protect users from harm.
Ofcom is committed to a thriving telecoms sector, where companies can compete fairly and customers benefit from a broad range of services.
Ofcom's job is to make sure there is a universal postal service.
You can't see or feel radio spectrum, but we use it every day. Our job is to authorise and manage the use of spectrum in the UK.
We make sure that broadcasters provide quality TV, radio and on-demand programmes that appeal to diverse audiences. We also have rules in place to protect viewers and listeners from harm.
How to make the most of communications services as a small business.
How to make the most of the services you use, and deal with problems.
Proposals we are consulting on and decisions we've made.
How we make sure companies follow our rules, to protect customers and promote competition.
Rules, guidance and other information for the industries we regulate.
If you're looking to use certain radio equipment, or broadcast on TV or radio, you'll need a licence from Ofcom.
Our latest news, features, views and information about our work.
Evidence we gather to inform our work as a regulator.
Published: 28 March 2025
Ofcom’s Three -Year Plan, sets out our major projects and programmes through to 2028.
Published: 24 April 2024
Last updated: 28 March 2025
The first interim update to Connected Nations 2022, based on mobile coverage and fixed broadband availability across the UK as of January 2023.
Published: 2 January 2024
We have made some of the data that underpins the Connected Nations 2023 report available to download. This data allows us to make year-on-year comparisons of the state of the UK’s communications infrastructure.
Published: 5 December 2024
We have made some of the data that underpins the Connected Nations 2024 report available to download. This data allows us to make year-on-year comparisons of the state of the UK’s communications infrastructure.
Published: 23 February 2024
Last updated: 27 March 2025
Ofcom measures electromagnetic fields (EMF) near mobile phone base stations. We have been taking these measurements for many years, gradually covering more and more locations across the UK.
Published: 13 March 2024
Last updated: 26 March 2025
We publish data on which UK telephone numbers are available for allocation or are allocated, and lists of codes for use in number porting and other administrative tasks.
Published: 14 December 2023
Last updated: 21 March 2025
How TikTok, Twitch and Snap try to prevent children from watching potentially harmful videos.
In accordance with the conditions for pre-release access to Official Statistics set out in the DCMS statement of compliance, named officials can receive privileged early access to Official Statistics.
Last updated: 18 March 2025
Ofcom's statistical release calendar lists the Official Statistics we are due to publish in 2025.
Published: 13 November 2023
Last updated: 13 March 2025
The annual Public Service Media tracker explores UK adults’ satisfaction, attitudes and opinions towards Public Service Broadcasters as well as their on-demand services.
Published: 30 May 2023
Last updated: 7 March 2025
Alongside our 4G- and 5G-specific signal strength measurement data, we have published a map showing the routes our spectrum assurance vehicles have taken along roads in the United Kingdom.
Published: 8 November 2023
A list of the programmes produced by the PSBs outside the M25, and criteria against which each programme qualifies as made outside London.
Published: 27 November 2023
Ofcom’s open data is a mix of data from or about the companies we regulate in the communications sector, and the citizens and consumers who use them.
Published: 7 March 2024
We have been compiling the 4G- and 5G-specific signal strength measurement data that our spectrum assurance vehicles capture along roads in England, Scotland and Wales.
Published: 27 February 2024
Last updated: 28 February 2025
Our latest research into the affordability of home broadband, mobile phone, landline and pay TV services.
Published: 29 January 2024
Last updated: 27 February 2025
Ofcom's Making Sense of Media bulletin summarises media literacy activities by a range of organisations in the UK and overseas.
Published: 27 February 2025
A teachable moment: opportunities, gaps and next steps from our review of Media literacy training for teachers.
Published: 16 December 2024
Last updated: 24 February 2025
Our Research, Evidence and Evaluation working group comprises academics and experts with a shared interest in a wide range of topics related to media literacy research and evaluation.
Published: 25 January 2024
Last updated: 13 February 2025
We publish the number of complaints we have received about landline, broadband, pay-monthly mobile and pay-TV services.
Published: 5 February 2025
In this Economics Discussion Paper, we use NLP to classify the topic of each news article read by a sample of people who had their internet use tracked over one month in 2021.
As part of the 2019-23 Public Service Media Review, this Economics Discussion Paper uses a survey conducted in 2022 by Ipsos for Ofcom to assess the relationship between the use of PSBs for news by survey participants and a range of societal outcomes which are related to effective participation in a well-functioning democracy.
Published: 17 December 2024
Last updated: 5 February 2025
Since our last review in 2020, Small Screen: Big Debate, the broadcasting industry has witnessed and reported on unprecedented national and international instability.
Published: 26 January 2024
Last updated: 29 January 2025
A report on our approach to monitoring and ensuring compliance with the Open Internet Regulation from May 2020 to October 2021.
Published: 23 January 2025
In the following section we highlight some of the key trends emerging this quarter from the data we collect on the UK telecommunications sector.
Published: 9 November 2023
Last updated: 16 December 2024
Ofcom has been conducting research to understand children’s experiences of communications online, including any uncomfortable or unwanted contact and receiving sexualised messages.
Ofcom has been consulting with children to find out what they think about Ofcom’s proposals to improve online safety.
Published: 12 December 2024
Interactive report looking at pricing trends for broadband, mobile, landline and pay-TV services in the UK in 2024.
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