specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Ofcom
providerId: ofcom
generated: '2026-07-25'
method: searched
created: '2026-07-25'
modified: '2026-07-25'
tags:
  - Telecommunications
  - United Kingdom
  - Open Data
  - Broadband
  - Mobile Network Coverage
description: >-
  Ofcom publishes four Azure API Management products — a Basic and a Premium tier
  over each of the two Connected Nations APIs. No price is published for any of
  them; Ofcom is a regulator publishing public-interest data, and the tiers gate
  volume, not money. Every product is subscriptionRequired and approvalRequired:
  sign-up is open and self-serve, but an Ofcom human approves the subscription
  before a key is issued.
sources:
  - https://api.ofcom.org.uk/products
  - https://api.ofcom.org.uk/mapi/products?api-version=2021-08-01
plans:
  - id: broadband
    name: Broadband Coverage (Basic)
    api: ofcom:ofcom-connected-nations-broadband-api
    type: free
    price: null
    state: published
    subscriptionRequired: true
    approvalRequired: true
    description: >-
      Subscribers can retrieve broadband coverage data against postcodes up to run
      100 calls/minute for 50,000 requests per month.
    entries:
      - {label: Call rate, name: calls_per_minute, type: limit, metric: requests, limit: 100, timeFrame: minute}
      - {label: Monthly quota, name: requests_per_month, type: limit, metric: requests, limit: 50000, timeFrame: month}
  - id: broadband-premium
    name: Broadband Coverage (Premium)
    api: ofcom:ofcom-connected-nations-broadband-api
    type: free
    price: null
    state: published
    subscriptionRequired: true
    approvalRequired: true
    description: >-
      Subscribers can retrieve broadband coverage data against postcodes up to run
      500 calls/minute for 150,000 requests per month.
    entries:
      - {label: Call rate, name: calls_per_minute, type: limit, metric: requests, limit: 500, timeFrame: minute}
      - {label: Monthly quota, name: requests_per_month, type: limit, metric: requests, limit: 150000, timeFrame: month}
  - id: mobile
    name: Mobile Coverage (Basic)
    api: ofcom:ofcom-connected-nations-mobile-api
    type: free
    price: null
    state: published
    subscriptionRequired: true
    approvalRequired: true
    description: >-
      Subscribers can retrieve mobile coverage data against postcodes up to run 100
      calls/minute for 50,000 requests per month.
    entries:
      - {label: Call rate, name: calls_per_minute, type: limit, metric: requests, limit: 100, timeFrame: minute}
      - {label: Monthly quota, name: requests_per_month, type: limit, metric: requests, limit: 50000, timeFrame: month}
  - id: mobile-premium
    name: Mobile Coverage (Premium)
    api: ofcom:ofcom-connected-nations-mobile-api
    type: free
    price: null
    state: published
    subscriptionRequired: true
    approvalRequired: true
    description: >-
      Subscribers can retrieve broadband coverage data against postcodes up to run
      500 calls/minute for 150,000 requests per month.
    entries:
      - {label: Call rate, name: calls_per_minute, type: limit, metric: requests, limit: 500, timeFrame: minute}
      - {label: Monthly quota, name: requests_per_month, type: limit, metric: requests, limit: 150000, timeFrame: month}
notes:
  - No pricing is published for any product; terms are null on all four.
  - >-
    The Mobile Coverage (Premium) description text says "broadband coverage data" —
    recorded verbatim; it appears to be an error in Ofcom's own product catalog.
  - Terms of use are a separate PDF, see lifecycle/ofcom-lifecycle.yml.