"The Electronic Communications Code — an introduction for property litigators"

As Ian mentions below, the Electronic Communications Code does not really come up in the course but, perhaps especially for those thinking about some of the wider issues around network roll-out, and the necessity of having access to third party land to deploy infrastructure necessary to run a network (whether that is network infrastructure itself, or something more passive such as conduit), some understanding of the UK approach might be beneficial.

I found this document — "The Electronic Communications Code — an introduction for property litigators" — whilst looking for a guidance document on the Code, and thought it might be worth mentioning here. It takes a reasonably critical view of the Code, bringing in aspects of property law more generally, but also specific cases which relate to principles of the code, and is well worth browsing through. (It does not deal with the reform aspect, or the consultation, but might be a useful resource for reading before looking at the reform proposals.)

"The availability of communications services in the UK"

Ofcom has published a new report, entitled "The availability of communications services in the UK."

According to Ofcom:

This report examines how and why the availability of communications services varies across the UK, and how it could be improved. We consider the availability of seven communications services: fixed voice, fixed broadband, mobile voice, mobile broadband, digital television, radio and post.

The full paper is 79 pages, but the executive summary (linked above) is shorter, and worth a read.

What do you make of the report's conclusions? Is 2Mbit broadband sufficient as a minimum, or should we be aiming higher?