About Digital Connectivity Insights

Digital Connectivity Insights tracks the relationship between UK government and the telecoms industry — what's being decided about digital infrastructure, and what it means for the people building, running, and investing in it.

What this is

DCI tracks UK digital infrastructure policy and politics in two parts.

The Policy tracker is a live feed of what DCMS, Ofcom, and DBIST are publishing, deciding, and consulting on, filtered for telecoms relevance. Each item is put in brief context that explains not just what happened, but why it matters and what to watch next.

The Politics tracker follows parliamentary activity relevant to digital infrastructure and telecoms — written questions to ministers, and in time debates and statements.

DCI exists partly because of timing: government has just spent a year reshuffling who owns UK digital infrastructure policy — DSIT dissolved in July 2026, its functions split across DCMS and DBIST. That's not a one-off. Departmental boundaries move, briefs get renamed, and machinery-of-government changes will keep happening.

Who it's for

Primarily: people in the telecoms industry — operators, vendors, investors, and other public affairs professionals — who need a single, reliable place to catch every DCMS, Ofcom, and DBIST development, plus relevant parliamentary activity, rather than piecing it together from multiple department sites, Hansard, or missing it in a specialised newsletter's inbox roundup.

Secondarily: people in and around government and policy — civil servants, political staff, think tanks, journalists — who want visibility into what's happening across DCMS, Ofcom, DBIST, and Parliament on telecoms specifically, without needing to already know which department currently owns a given issue.

Each item includes enough context — what it is, and why it's relevant to telecoms — to be useful to both audiences without assuming prior familiarity with the sector or the department behind it.

Who's writing it

Frederik ("Freddy") van Randwyck currently heads up the Telecoms Modernisation Programme at techUK, working on industry's transition away from legacy networks including the PSTN switch-off and, since joining, has launched a workstream on 2G retirement.

He previously worked as a Senior Policy Advisor in Telecoms Markets at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), launching and leading on business (B2B) connectivity market policy, and working on key policies including the Mobile Markets Review (MMR) and the 2026 Ofcom Statement of Strategic Priorities (SSP). Prior to this he worked as a DSIT Policy Advisor for Digital Markets leading international engagement during the parliamentary passage of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers (DMCC) Act. Before that, he worked as an EU public affairs consultant at FleishmanHillard in Brussels, focusing on digital and financial services policy.

He holds an LLM in European Law from Leiden University, a GDL in English Law from City Law School, and a BA in Archaeology from the University of York.

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Independence and disclosure

This publication is written and published independently, in a personal capacity, and does not represent the views of any employer or organisation.

A few ground rules:

• No writing about specific transactions, clients, or live lobbying positions the author is personally or professionally involved in.
• Where a relevant professional connection to a topic exists, it will be disclosed explicitly rather than left implicit.
• The goal is coverage that's useful regardless of whose "side" it lands on — including when that means saying things the industry, or government, won't love hearing.

This site was built with the help of AI, including its design and the Policy tracker's automated fetching. Automated entries use gov.uk's own published descriptions; manually-added entries and some of the site's written content were drafted with AI assistance, then reviewed and approved before publishing. What's tracked, how it's filtered, and what's included is Freddy's editorial judgement throughout.

If you think that standard hasn't been met, say so — reach out on LinkedIn.