Catalogue description Records created or inherited by Ofcom (the Office of Communications)

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Reference: OCM
Title: Records created or inherited by Ofcom (the Office of Communications)
Description:

Records created or inherited by Ofcom (the Office of Communications).

For series created for regularly archived websites, please see the separate Websites Division.
Date: 2001-2020
Related material:

For records created by the Radiocommunications Agency, please see: KS

For records created by the Office of Telecommunications (Oftel), please see: LF

For records created by the Radio Authority, please see: RP
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Office of Communications (Ofcom), 2003-
Physical description: 27 series
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Administrative / biographical background:

Ofcom (the Office of Communications) is the independent telecommunications regulator and competition authority for the communication industries in the UK. It was established in 2003 under the Communications Act 2003. Ofcom replaced the five former regulatory bodies: the Broadcasting Standards Commission; the Independent Television Commission; the Office of Telecommunications (Oftel); the Radio Authority; and the Radiocommunications Agency.

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