Independent regulator and competition authority
for the UK communications industries.
Ofcom works to ensure everyone gets the very best from their communications.
Our role is to look at how issues affect UK consumers as a whole.
We cannot handle individual complaints.
However, we fully understand how frustrating it can be when things go wrong.
That’s why we have improved the way phone and broadband providers deal with your complaints.
Problems including:
additional charges
charges for leaving your contract early
call costs
price of other services
disputed bill items
refunds
no price list
credit limits/allowances
stolen mobile phone/ dongle
To get help with your individual problems, follow these steps:
ADRs act as an independent middleman and will examine the case from both sides and reach a decision they think fair. If eight weeks have passed since you first formally complained you can contact the ADR directly.
There are two ADR schemes – Ombudsman Services: Communications, and the Communications and Internet Services Adjudication Scheme (CISAS). All service providers must belong to one of the schemes.
Your provider will tell you which scheme it is a member of, or you can use our ADR checker.
If you have had billing problems, please let us know by clicking the button below and filling out our short monitoring form.
Although Ofcom does not investigate individual complaints, your help in highlighting problems plays a vital part in our work and we may investigate a company if monitoring data reveals a particular problem.
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