By Ross McKillop You may have heard of the Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2) which has recently been adopted into UK law through the Payment Services Regulations. These regulations have never been of much concern…
Ofcom have recently published Draft CLI Guidelines which will likely become part of the General Conditions in 2018. Notably, these proposals will require much stricter checks of CLI in an effort to protect consumers from…
If you’re operating a PECS or PECN service in the UK you must comply with the General Conditions. One of these is GC4, providing access to the Emergency Services (999), and the provision of address…
Non-Geographic Numbers The UK National Numbering Plan has a huge range of numbers and most of our customers’ numbering requirements are met by our 01, 02, 03, and 080 numbers which can be freely used…
By Simon Woodhead What follows is a matter of opinion based on personal experience and belief, shared for the betterment of a fair and transparent marketplace. Readers should form their own opinions and do their…
Picture the scene: Barfy Trump has always rented deckchairs, on a big ship. In fact many years ago he used to own everything on that ship but the somewhat overweight civil service type at the…
We’ve blogged before about the importance of sending valid caller ID on all calls, and warned that we will begin rejecting call attempts with invalid CLI. Simwood is committed to reducing misuse of telecommunications networks,…
Further to our initial response, we have now responded to Ofcom’s actual Strategic Review of Digital Communications. Should customers wish to make their own response, and we would encourage you to do so, the deadline for…
We’ve just responded to Ofcom’s legal direction to provide commercial information on the call charges we’ve levied on BT and others for the last 3 years for our own number ranges and those of Virtual…
It should be pretty obvious to readers of this blog that we struggle with some floors of Ofcom towers (Huw and team, not yours!). ‘We no speak bureaucrat’ and that may be a factor in…