FCS News

This month FCS had our board to board with Openreach. In a very interactive and constructive session we discussed the following topics on behalf of our members: ​ Re-imagining the FCS members' relationship with Openreach in the IP world, and the contact strategy with...

Ofcom is currently seeking views on the following topics: Consultation: Mobile phone repeaters – closing date 28 July 2021 Consultation: Proposals for the regulation of advertising on video-sharing platforms – closing date 28 July 2021 Consultation: Request for change...

The consultation is available to view on the below link. FCS are going to review and provide further comments in due course https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/a-new-pro-competition-regime-for-digital-markets 

Openreach and OTA have engaged with FCS on managed migrations. We have started a working group to look at the business journeys, which are much more complex than the residential journeys. ​ We will be starting some workshops to look in more detail at best practice and...

As communicated previously, FCS is engaging with Ofcom on its Mobile Strategy Review. Ofcom has now requested our members specific feedback and views on the provision of mobile services to business customers. This is a great opportunity for the FCS membership to input...

Openreach is proposing new FTTP pricing offers. FCS would like your feedback to enable us to respond to an Ofcom call for inputs View more information here Please send feedback to [email protected]

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)...

Posted on 27/04/2021 FCS are pleased to welcome new board member Simon Parsons as a Non Executive Director. Simon has worked in radiocommunications for over 40 years, and is a member of the Business radio council. Please find Simon’s full Bio below. Simon has worked...