{"id":22116,"date":"2020-04-30T11:40:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T10:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=22116"},"modified":"2020-04-30T11:46:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T10:46:09","slug":"covid-19-ofcom-delays-uk-telecoms-work-for-2020-to-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/04\/covid-19-ofcom-delays-uk-telecoms-work-for-2020-to-2021.html","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 &#8211; Ofcom Delays UK Telecoms Work for 2020 to 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an unsurprising development <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a> has today published a revision of their proposed annual work plan for 2020\/21, which has naturally resulted in various delays to their broadband (e.g. full fibre competition), mobile (e.g. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a> auctions) and related regulation work due to the on-going COVID-19 (Coronavirus) crisis.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The original plan was published in January 2020 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/01\/ofcom-uk-propose-predictable-annual-work-plan-for-2020-21.html\">here<\/a>) but since then COVID-19 has had a significant impact due to the lockdown and social distancing restrictions, although this doesn&#8217;t always show in the broad strokes quarterly dating format that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a> has used in their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ofcom.org.uk\/__data\/assets\/pdf_file\/0029\/194753\/statement-ofcom-plan-of-work-2020-21.pdf\"><strong>updated plan<\/strong><\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the regulator&#8217;s consultation on promoting investment and competition in &#8220;<em>full fibre<\/em>&#8221; broadband ISP networks (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/01\/ofcom-start-major-review-to-boost-uk-full-fibre-broadband-market.html\">here<\/a>), which is part of the <strong>Wholesale Fixed Telecoms Market Review 2021-26<\/strong>, was originally open for responses until 1st April but this has now been extended until 22nd May 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a>&#8217;s original plan to award new radio bands to mobile network operators as they are released (e.g. <strong>700MHz<\/strong> and <strong>3.6-3.8GHz<\/strong> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a> mobile) was originally targeted for Q1 2020\/21, but under the revised plan this is now merely listed as 2020\/21 in general (i.e. it could happen at any point over the next 12 months).<\/p>\n<p>On top of that the related 700MHz spectrum clearance work, which was due to finish by May 2020, is now listed for a final update in Q3 2020\/21 but is also on &#8220;<em>pause<\/em>&#8220;. 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Otherwise we note that there has been a slight revision to the UK Government&#8217;s proposed spending cap for Ofcom&#8217;s budget in 2020\/21, which has changed from \u00a3133.6m in January to \u00a3131.9m now.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq2\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> We\u2019ve skipped some of the less broadband, internet and mobile specific areas (e.g. <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-95 shortlink-chref\" title=\"bbc\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\">BBC<\/a> regulation, increasing diversity etc.) in order to make this fit.<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" style=\"padding: 0px; width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/gallery\/2020-article-illustrations\/ofcom_revised_annual_plan_2020-21.png\" alt=\"ofcom revised annual plan 2020-21\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an unsurprising development Ofcom has today published a revision of their proposed annual work plan for 2020\/21, which has naturally resulted in various delays to their broadband (e.g. full fibre competition), mobile (e.g. 5G auctions) and related regulation work due to the on-going COVID-19 (Coronavirus) crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1645],"tags":[61,406,474,65,56,60,36,69,38,537],"class_list":["post-22116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","category-key_uk_isp_industry_developments","tag-4g","tag-5g","tag-bt","tag-ftth","tag-fttp","tag-mobile-broadband","tag-ofcom-regulation","tag-bt-openreach","tag-politics","tag-uso"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>COVID-19 - Ofcom Delays UK Telecoms Work for 2020 to 2021 - ISPreview UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In an unsurprising development Ofcom has today published a revision of their proposed annual work plan for 2020\/21, which has naturally resulted in\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/04\/covid-19-ofcom-delays-uk-telecoms-work-for-2020-to-2021.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"COVID-19 - Ofcom Delays UK Telecoms Work for 2020 to 2021 - ISPreview UK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In an unsurprising development Ofcom has today published a revision of their proposed annual work plan for 2020\/21, which has naturally resulted in\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/04\/covid-19-ofcom-delays-uk-telecoms-work-for-2020-to-2021.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ISPreview UK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ispreview\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ispreview\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-04-30T10:40:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-04-30T10:46:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/6_ofcom.gif\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/gif\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mark Jackson\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ispreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ispreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mark Jackson\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2020\\\/04\\\/covid-19-ofcom-delays-uk-telecoms-work-for-2020-to-2021.html#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2020\\\/04\\\/covid-19-ofcom-delays-uk-telecoms-work-for-2020-to-2021.html\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Mark Jackson\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/de66a8b4e937c21c80e443d1bf9c35d5\"},\"headline\":\"COVID-19 &#8211; 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