Our Role
The Digital Connectivity Forum (DCF) is the UK Government’s primary advisory group on the provision of seamless digital connectivity.
Our goal is seamless digital connectivity, empowering positive societal change and economic growth across the UK.
We are an expert advisory forum for the entire digital connectivity sector. Through collaboration, evidence-building and research, we make recommendations to Government, regulators and industry.
The DCF was first established in 2001 as the Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG). Today, our diverse network includes telecoms operators, equipment manufacturers, ISPs, mobile network operators, content producers, broadcasters, business groupings, central and local government, the devolved administrations, Ofcom and others.
The DCF is based in the offices of techUK, the trade association for the UK’s technology sector.
We bring together the digital connectivity value chain in an expert forum.
Our Sponsors
Together these companies make up the DCF Executive, a committee that meets every six weeks and sets the overall direction for the work of the DCF. They are joined on the Executive by:
Our Chair
Lindsey Fussell
Chair of Digital Connectivity Forum
Lindsey was a Group Director at Ofcom, the UK’s telecommunications, media and online safety regulator, from 2016 to 2025, and an executive member of the Ofcom Board from 2020 to 2025. Initially Ofcom’s Consumer Group Director, Lindsey became Group Director for Networks and Communications in 2020, responsible for Ofcom’s regulation of the telecoms and postal markets, including the regulation of competition, consumer protection and security and resilience.
Prior to joining Ofcom, Lindsey held a number of senior roles in the Civil Service, including as Director of Public Services at HM Treasury, where she led on key aspects of public spending policy for defence, education and criminal justice. She is a qualified accountant (CIMA).
Lindsey is a non-executive member of the Board of National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED) and Chair of NGED’s Risk and Audit Committee. She is also an independent member of the Performance and Assurance Committee, which oversees performance of trading parties in the non-household water market.
Our Team
Alex Mather
Head of Digital Connectivity Forum
Alex joined as Head of the DCF in March 2022. Before that he worked at a public affairs consultancy across the telecoms and wider tech space and led the secretariat of the UK’s Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) trade association, Comms Council UK. He has a BA in History and Politics from the University of Nottingham.
Our Location
For Digital Connectivity Forum enquiries, please contact:
Alex Mather, Head of Digital Connectivity Forum
Email: alex.mather@connectivityuk.org
Phone: +44 20 7331 2000
Digital Connectivity Forum
c/o techUK
10 St Bride Street, London EC4A 4AD