Management reshuffle
By Simon Woodhead Whenever I post a blog about management changes, the click through rate is astonishing which I could take the wrong way! Today’s post is what some of you may have been looking…
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Wholesale rate update (2021-10-07) – with NO dirty surcharges
We will be updating our Managed A-Z Termination rates and codes on October 7th 2021. As usual, these changes are colour coded in our full rate files available through the portal as below. This update…
Important: Bank Details Change Part 2
By Jake Taylor It’s nice to be unchained from my calculator for a while to write a blog post, and one about such a fun and exhilarating topic. Simon clearly thinks I’m the right person…
Grannies vs BT
By Peter Farmer OK, so the headline talks about Grannies… disappointingly we are actually talking about a class action of all landline only customers v the former state monopolist and not just grannies. These landline-only…
VoIP DDoS Preparations – update
By Simon Woodhead It has been a week or so since we last updated on the emerging threat, so we wanted to update you. Whilst nobody (except George W Bush) wants to be the one…
Ofcom’s new loyalty scheme
By Simon Woodhead Our Regulator has the Statutory power to fine you. Pretty scary right? Well, it is unless you’re the former state funded monopolist! Then, you don’t just get a Crown Guarantee on your…
VoIP DDoS Preparations – Mandatory Testing
By Simon Woodhead Alongside recent posts here (this, this and this), shared with our mailing list, Status Page notifications drawing attention to them, and of course our Community Slack, we have highlighted on Slack voluntary…
VoIP DDoS Preparations – Remember your Regulatory Obligations
By Peter Farmer There’s a bit of a fracas going on now, as we know from reports about sustained and targeted DDoS attacks against at least two voice providers. We do not know why these…
VoIP DDoS Preparations – IMPORTANT customer update
By Simon Woodhead Following our update on Friday, we have been monitoring the evolving DDoS situation and leveraging our industry reach to get the inside track from those on the front-line of assisting current victims.…
VoIP DDoS – Fail to Prepare…
By Simon Woodhead There’s a scenario that has kept me awake at night for getting on a decade. Regular readers will know this because I’ve banged on and on about it. It underlies the scale…