Petition · past parliament

Give Ofcom legally enforceable powers for customer service of telecom companies.

Closed 56 signatures

What the petition asks

Ofcom do not have legal powers to either monitor customer service standards, or take action against telecom companies that fail to provide acceptable service levels to their customers. This may be slow Broadband speeds, or simply failing to have adequately staffed help lines or technical support.
There are many incidences of poor service provision by Telecom companies. Recently this has been featured on a popular televison news programme in the East of the country. They stated that they had been inundated with complaints.

Timeline

25 Jan 2016 Petition opened for signatures
25 Jul 2016 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 56
Status Closed
Opened 25 Jan 2016
Closed 25 Jul 2016

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.