# Ofcom

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/ofcom/  
**Website:** https://www.ofcom.org.uk/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

Ofcom is the Office of Communications, the United Kingdom's independent regulator and competition authority for telecommunications, spectrum, broadcasting, post, and online safety. It licenses UK spectrum, administers the national numbering plan, publishes the Connected Nations reports on fixed and mobile coverage, and supervises the operators (EE, VMO2, Vodafone, Three) rather than selling connectivity itself. Its position in the telecom value chain is therefore upstream of the market it measures — it is a data producer and rule-setter, not a network or a CPaaS aggregator. Its API posture is unusually good for a regulator and unusually narrow in scope. Ofcom runs a real, Ofcom-branded Azure API Management developer portal at api.ofcom.org.uk with open sign-up, an interactive console, published rate-limit tiers, and anonymously downloadable OpenAPI 3.0.1 documents for two APIs — the Connected Nations Broadband API and the Connected Nations Mobile API — both served from the live gateway at api-proxy.ofcom.org.uk and authenticated with an Azure APIM subscription key. Everything else Ofcom publishes (spectrum licence registers, numbering data, market research) is documents and datasets, not APIs, and the community has repeatedly built third-party APIs on top of those files. Ofcom appears once in the CAMARA project participant register but exposes no CAMARA network APIs and is not a GSMA Open Gateway participant — Open Gateway is an operator commitment programme and Ofcom is the regulator, not an operator.

## Kin Score — 49.7 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 49.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 53.5 |
| Governance | 16.7 |
| Contract Governance | 16.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 31.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 51.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 55.3 |
| Access Clarity | 55.3 |

Regulatory layer — **Telecommunications**: 37.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 47.2 (agent-native)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## APIs (2)

- **Ofcom Connected Nations Broadband API** — Returns predicted fixed broadband availability for a UK postcode from Ofcom's Connected Nations dataset — per-premises maximum predicted download and upload speeds broken out by...
- **Ofcom Connected Nations Mobile API** — Returns predicted mobile coverage for a UK postcode from Ofcom's Connected Nations dataset, scored 0 (none), 3 (limited), or 4 (likely) for each of the four UK mobile network op...

## MCP servers (1)

- **Ofcom MCP Server** — Ofcom publishes no MCP server. This is a DERIVED candidate tool surface — what an MCP server over Ofcom's two published operations would expose — not an Ofcom product. Confirmed...

## Agentic access (1)

- **Ofcom Agentic Access** — 2 operations

## Security (2)

- **Ofcom Authentication** — apiKey · 2 schemes
- **Ofcom Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Ofcom Plans**

## Tags

Telecommunications, United Kingdom, Regulator, Broadband, Mobile Network Coverage, Spectrum, Open Data, Connected Nations

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/ofcom/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.