By Simon Woodhead As you may, or may not be aware, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a long-standing bank to the global technology sector has just suffered a bank run, much like those seen in the crisis of 2008. Few banks have liquidity to survive such…

By Charles Chance Manchester is back and it’s big, in fact it’s EPYC! Dad jokes aside, I have some exciting tales about flashing lights and shiny boxes to share.. In Simon’s 2022 ‘Christmas letter’ he mentioned how we’d been working on bringing up a new…

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. It (and the preceding quiet period) are a great time…

By Simon Woodhead It has been a little while since I’ve opined on the Telecommunications Security Act 2021 and the all-important secondary legislation it enabled, the Electronic Communications (Security Measures) Regulations 2022. My most recent entry is to reiterate how these rules apply to even…

By Simon Woodhead It’s that time of year when I get to wish you and your families a fantastic Festive Season and to thank you, where you have, for being part of our journey during 2022. As you’ll know, I didn’t have the helm for…

By Simon Woodhead Last October I posted that I was stepping down as CEO and my long-standing colleague Grahame Davies would be replacing me. Today, I pick up the reins again. As you may recall from that blog, the decision to step down was not…

By Simon Woodhead It has been a week or so since we updated you on our plans for blocking inbound and outbound calls according to Ofcom’s DNO list. I wanted to circle back and look at the impact those changes have made. We’ve not had…

We will be updating our Managed A-Z Termination rates and codes on April 1st 2023. As usual, these changes are colour coded in our full rate files available through the portal as below. Unlike other operators, we are not passing on UK origin surcharges, relying…

By Simon Woodhead The annual revision to carrier interconnect rates is upon us, effective April 1st 2023. As warned last year, and indeed as raised with the Minister, in addition to the grotesque CPI+3.9% shenanigans, CPI feeds through into Regulated rates and so they’re going…