FCS News

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/MSP 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​...

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...

Posted on 13/04/2021 FCS are pleased to announce two new co-chairs for the CSP/MSP group. Mark Johnson from 9 Group and Ben Attenborrow from Sempervox, please find their information below. Mark Johnson  Mark started his career in Retail banking and then Leasing...

Posted on 03/03/2021 FCS are proud to be support Channel Live online event which is taking place over two days 3rd and 4th March 2021.The event provides the perfect opportunity for our sector to reconnect with 2 days of networking, new business opportunities and...

Posted on 10/02/2021 FCS Responds to Ofcom's consultation on its annual plan of work FCS has responded to Ofcom's latest consultation on its proposed plan of work for 2021/22. The FCS response raises concerns around Ofcom's oversight of the UK migration to All IP...

Posted on 09/02/2021 I am delighted to announce that, at this critical time for the industry, FCS is strengthening its representational team with the addition of Megan Corcoran and Steve Kerr. Megan and Steve will work alongside Richard Gill and Michael Eagle in...