Communications watchdog Ofcom have published proposals aiming to deliver super fast broadband to UK homes and businesses. The proposal is set to encourage investment in the technology and to ensure competition and consumer choice in the market, according to the regulator.

Ofcom have announced that they will be making changes to non geographic (0870/1 and 0844/5) numbering services. Callers to these numbers are often not aware of the costs they incur, so the changes come in an effort to boost consumer protection.

Telecommunications watchdog Ofcom has announced plans to review its customer service information on fixed-line providers, supplied by co-regulatory group Topcomm... The Topcomm site allows users to compare a number of providers side by side, giving statistical information on customer service levels.

According to an investigation by Ofcom, the UK’s copper telecom cables should theoretically be capable of delivering broadband speeds of up to 50Mbits per second. The communications watchdog was seeking to discover when the current network would no longer be sufficient to meet expectations of UK consumers – who are increasingly using bandwidth heavy applications.

According to Ofcom’s latest report, people in the UK are spending record amounts of time using communications services, but are paying less for them.The report shows that in 2007 we spent an average of 7 hours and 9 minutes a day using communications services (such as watching television, talking on landline phones, surfing the net etc)...