Who must report and when?
Section 77 requires Ofcom, once a year, to give every provider of a a . A relevant service is a Category 1, Category 2A, or Category 2B service. The provider must produce and publish the report by the date and in the manner specified in the notice.
Ofcom published final transparency guidance in July 2025 and its categorised-services register in June 2026, updated in July. Ofcom's implementation roadmap says categorised services will publish their first transparency reports in 2027 and that a further timeline update will follow the register. Providers should use the actual notice as the controlling deadline rather than infer a date from an older roadmap.
- Confirm that the named service and provider match the current Ofcom register and the notice.
- Extract every request, definition, reporting period, unit, disaggregation, format, publication method, and deadline into a controlled requirements table.
- Escalate ambiguity during Ofcom's draft-notice process and preserve correspondence and the final position.
Creates the annual notice, report, publication, and timing framework for relevant categorised services.
Current register identifying Category 1, 2A, and 2B services.
Current implementation roadmap stating that first categorised-service transparency reports are due in 2027 and that timing will be updated.