What is going on in the US?
By Simon Woodhead I’ve always loved the US market because of its straightforwardness. One doesn’t have Regulators beating around the bush, making ever evolving excuses why you can’t have a given resource, they just come…
By Simon Woodhead I’ve always loved the US market because of its straightforwardness. One doesn’t have Regulators beating around the bush, making ever evolving excuses why you can’t have a given resource, they just come…
By Peter Farmer By now, you’ll be aware of a Statement issued by our regulator, the Office of Communications, that kicked any form of STIR/SHAKEN or CLI Authentication in the UK into the long grass.…
By Simon Woodhead In keeping with a list of countries we’re now losing track of, Sweden has jumped on the CLI blocking train. Following guidelines from the Swedish national regulator – PTS (Post-och Telestyrelsen) –…
By Simon Woodhead TL;DR CLI authentication has some risks, some seriously acute risks for our customers, so don’t let the naive and self-interested of the industry distract you from addressing those first with talk of…
By Simon Woodhead There’s a bogus narrative circulating that the Telecommunications Security Act 2021 doesn’t apply to all but the largest entities. That is incorrect – the Act applies to all, and the precise and…
By Pete Farmer We’ve mentioned it before, but it may have gotten lost in the excitement of the TSRs and the recent CLI changes and the myriad of other stuff being thrown at our industry…
By Victoria Palmer You may have heard that the industry’s new “Right to Port” rule – more specifically an update to General Condition C7 – came into effect on April 3rd 2023. The industry-agreed interpretation…
By Simon Woodhead Back in 2018 we had General Condition C6.6 (GC C6.6) introduced, requiring operators to ensure CLI was valid on the way in and out of the network, amongst other things. I remember…
By Simon Woodhead Those are very well used words in our house. My 5 year old daughter is scarily bright and what any parent will relate to when I say “into everything”. An entire toilet…
By Simon Woodhead Happy New Year! We find that the new year is traditionally the time when people like to dust-off relationships, reflect on the past year and put in place provision for the new.…