Ofcom has decided to extend its programme of broadband migration rule (General Condition 22) monitoring and enforcement for a further six months. Readers may recall how the regulator introduced new rules to make switching broadband ISP's easier during December last year - here.

The move signifies that while the initial introduction pains of its new rules have become less, the situation is still far from perfect as the regulator explains below:


Unfortunately there appears to have been very little movement on the ever growing matter of unbundled (LLU) broadband migrations, which are not fully covered by Ofcom's new rules.

This issue has been present ever since the new code was introduced and yet nearly nine months later very little has changed while unbundled services continue to become a significant mass market force.