ISPA Policy Updates

Closing out 2024: A Dynamic December

Happy 2025 from the ISPA policy team! Although the holiday period is typically quieter, this December passed in an unusual flurry of activity — and we are right back to it in the New Year, with Parliament back in session on Monday (Labour celebrating six months in office) and no end to the political headlines.

Kicking off the month, Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced his six new “not a reset” Milestones on 5th December, promising that if all are met, then economic growth in the UK will follow. Spread across six pillars, each has associated metrics which are designed to allow the public to hold the Government accountable for its progress.

Following on from this, Chancellor Rachel Reeves launched Phase 2 of the Government's Spending Review. Currently inviting feedback from stakeholders, the Treasury will look to set three-year Departmental budgets and funding priorities.

Subsequently, Deputy PM Angela Rayner announced the new National Policy Planning Framework (NPPF) alongside a new English Devolution White Paper, shaking up housing and infrastructure development. In terms of telecoms, planning decisions going forward “should support the expansion” of networks; a series of working papers for the Planning and Infrastructure Bill will develop the detail.

In Parliament, the Data (Use and Access) Bill — which includes provisions for the National Underground Asset Register (NUAR) and Smart Data — finished Committee Stage, and will commence Report Stage on 21st January. Further, broadband access, digital inclusion, cyber security and online safety were key topics of discussion in both Houses.

ISPA policy work

This month, the policy team worked to finalise our response to the fourth Adaptation Reporting Power (ARP4), which will give an overview of the resilience of the telecoms sector to climate-related risks.

ISPA will be responding to the Transport Committee inquiry, “Managing the impact of street works” and is currently seeking views from members. Additionally, we are looking to submit a response to the Technology Adoption Review — please get in touch with any questions.

Engaging with government officials and the Minister, the Telecoms Poles Working Group is working to finalised new guidance around the siting of telecommunications poles. We are also still accepting views on ISPA’s position around both fraud and non-consensual intimate image abuse (NCII) — please get in touch with any questions.

Luckily, the ISPA offices were closed between Christmas and the New Year, allowing the team our own mini reset, ready to take on 2025.

As always, please get in touch at policy@ispa.org.uk with any questions, or if you have any suggestions for policy issues we should look into!

Key Update

ISPA Network Carrier Survey: Understanding what ISPs prioritise from their Network Carrier

Over the past decade. The UK wholesale network market has transformed, with huge growth of FTTP, new prominent technologies, and a rise in the amount of wholesale networks available to ISPs.

Given these changes, ISPA has developed a survey alongside their partner nexfibre to comprehensively understand what ISPs expect from a network operator in order to thrive.

We are kindly asking ISPA members, and all UK based ISPs to fill out this short survey to shape the market's understanding of what you expect and want in a wholesale partner.

The findings of the survey responses will be made available to ISPA members in 2025 and the survey will be open to responses until the end of January 2025.

Please click the button below to complete the survey, and we thank you in advance for your participation in this research.

Fill Out Your Survey Response Here

ISPA Partners

Genexis Launches Aura E750: Cutting-Edge Wi-Fi 7 Gateway

Genexis, a leading European provider of innovative broadband solutions, is proud to announce the launch of the Aura E750, a cutting-edge Wi-Fi 7 residential gateway powered by Genexis’ award-winning IOWRT open-source software.

The Aura E750 is designed to deliver ultra-fast, full-home connectivity and features intelligent network management, an intuitive EasyWiFi App, and a USP-based WebGUI for seamless setup and operation. Sustainability is a core principle of this product, which is made from 90% recycled plastics, comes in 100% recyclable packaging, and is designed for easy refurbishment.

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Scale Smarter, Not Harder: How a Last-Mile CDN Transforms Capacity Planning

Capacity planning is a demanding process, particularly when streaming a live sporting event. On average, there are nine devices per UK household. Multiply this by the number of households streaming a live sporting event and you get enough unicast requests to overwhelm networks and constrain bandwidth with low quality QoE for subscribers. So what are ISPs to do? Consider a Last-Mile CDN. This approach brings content closer to subscribers through locally embedded caches in the serving ISP’s network. The result? Reduced upstream congestion and higher quality QoE for subscribers. Click below to learn more.

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How Field Techs Can Deliver a Better Subscriber Experience

In today's competitive broadband market, with speed and price no longer being key differentiators, altnets must innovate to enhance the subscriber experience, as improving customer experience can significantly boost revenues and profitability. Customer service and support, especially through field technicians, are essential in addressing subscriber pain points and delivering personalized service. See how the Calix Field Service App can help you achieve just that.

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Industry Insights

ISPA Launches DE&I Policy

Flexibility & Stability For Broadband Services With uOLT

Live-Streaming: Future-Proof Your Network and Ease OTT Strain

Due to LinkedIn security updates, ISPA has now had to move all our activity, updates and announcements from the ISPA LinkedIn team page to our ISPA UK company page.

Many of you already follow this page but we would ask everyone to please check and if you are not, please sign up to follow ISPA UK on LinkedIn.

This is an important step to ensure you never miss any of our updates, event invites and more...

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Partner Events

ISPA offers its members a variety of discounts for events that we partner with:

Women in Telecoms Group Call  - 5th February 2025, 4PM

Intelligent Automation Conference Global - 5th and 6th February 2025 - Find out more and register here.

Unified Communications Conference Global - 5th and 6th February 2025 - Find out more and register here.

Channel Live - 19th and 20th March 2025 - Find out more and register here

CCUK Fraud Summit 2025: Joining the dots on information sharing for the UK communications ecosystem.

Save the date for the inaugural CCUK Fraud Summit, with talks and opportunities for networking. Speakers, topics and exact timing of the event TBC.

Members and partners will receive CCUK member rates. If you have any questions following the event, then please reach out to team@commscouncil.uk

Sponsorship opportunities available, for more information visit HERE.

Partners of ISPA

Become an ISPA Partner

ISPA Partnership offers organisations the opportunity to connect, develop relationships and grow their visibility with our 150+ ISP member community.

The packages run over a 12 month period and include 4 in-person events (including our prestigious ISPA Awards), online thought leadership, marketing opportunities and various other deliverables that ensures your organisation grows its connections in the UK ISP sector.

Find out what the opportunities are here.

To enquire about an ISPA partnership, please message our Head of Partnerships at krystian@ispa.org.uk.