By Vicky Palmer Just like last year, Simwood’s porting desk will remain open and operational throughout the festive period, with the exception of the bank holidays of course. However, as many providers are not operational…
By Bruce Clark Dear number porting enthusiasts, I’m sure it hasn’t escaped your attention that a lot of porting requests may have been taking a long time to get a response on, if a response…
By Grahame Davies We’ve always paid close attention to regulation and compliance in an industry which has had a reputation for playing fast and loose and paying scant regard for such matters. But there’s more…
By Grahame Davies The idea that Simwood might ever have a CEO other than Simon had rarely crossed my mind until discussions about how the future might look, and what my role in that might…
By Bruce Clark Just like last year, Simwood’s porting desk will remain open and operational throughout the festive period, with the exception of the bank holidays of course. However, as many providers are not operational…
by Bruce Clark As many of you are likely aware, the whole UK porting process is somewhat flawed in many areas. Whilst a large volume of the issues are out of our control, there are…
By Bruce Clark, Porting Supervisor After the initial deadline for LOA changes being pushed back a month, the relevant changes have been made and the new version will be in circulation from TODAY (Monday 7th…
By Bruce Clark, Porting Supervisor As you may have seen from the previous blog posts on Porting LOAs, the current “go-live” date for the new format is Monday 7th September 2020. It was pushed back…
By Bruce Clark, Porting Supervisor We have been informed that the Letter of Authorisation (LOA) changes are no longer taking place from Monday 3rd August and instead this has been pushed back to Monday 7th…
By Bruce Clark, Porting Supervisor Over the past few months, Offta (and the NPP&CG (Number Port Process & Commercial Group)) have been talking about making a few changes to the current porting processes, with a…