Ofcom, the communications watchdog, pays 20 of its staff more than the Prime Minister’s salary despite repeated criticism of its performance, new figures show. Dame Melanie Dawes, the chief ...

Ofcom's new rules for broadband, mobile and pay TV companies will result in a 'transparency tax for consumers', warn consumer ...

Telecoms providers must set out upfront price rises that will apply to customer contracts to protect consumers from uncertain ...

Ofcom’s guidance said services which allow pornography or other adult content will be required to introduce age assurance tools, for example photo ID matching, facial age estimation or credit ...

The University of Bedfordshire’s on-campus community radio station, Radio LaB, has been granted a five-year extension to its Ofcom broadcasting licence, ensuring the station will continue to serve the ...

Language in the statement will be considered a win by the age assurance sector, given its inclusion of age estimation as a ...

Children will be prevented from encountering adult content and protected from other types of harmful content under Ofcom’s ...

Ofcom forces firms to tell you this via a free text. Most get an instant response, though if you're with Three, Smarty or iD Mobile, you'll need to reply with your date of birth to prove identity.

Under the new rules, services hosting pornography must introduce robust age verification checks by July 2025. This includes services that publish their own pornographic content, as well as ...

The UK telecoms and media regulator, Ofcom, has today moved forward with implementation of the government’s tedious new Online Safety Act (OSA) by publishing industry guidance on how websites and ...

Many organizations still confuse transparency with "selective openness," sharing only the wins while sweeping challenges ...