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In this Economics Discussion Paper, we use NLP to classify the topic of each news article read by a sample of people who had their internet use tracked over one month in 2021.

In the following section we highlight some of the key trends emerging this quarter from the data we collect on the UK telecommunications sector.

Since our last review in 2020, Small Screen: Big Debate, the broadcasting industry has witnessed and reported on unprecedented national and international instability.

This webpage contains Ofcom’s publication of our general demand for financial information relating to PRS revenues under article 55 of the Regulation of Premium Rate Services Order 2024, S.I. 2024/1046 (PRS Order) for the purposes of calculating Ofcom’s related administrative charges.

Climate change is expected to have profound social, political, environmental and economic impacts. Ofcom does not have duties to pursue environmental or climate change policy goals.

This is Ofcom's first annual report on notices to deal with terrorism content and/or CSEA content pursuant to section 128 of the Online Safety Act 2023

The Online Safety Act has introduced new rules on robust age checks that services must follow to protect children

Children’s access assessments are a new assessment that all user-to user-services and search services (‘Part 3 services’) regulated under the Online Safety Act must carry out to establish whether a service – or part of a service – is likely to be accessed by children.

This is the first of Ofcom’s policy Statements that Ofcom, as regulator of the Online Safety Act, will publish as part of our work to establish the new regulations.