We will be updating our Managed A-Z Termination rates and codes on August 1st 2021. As usual, these changes are colour coded in our full rate files available through the portal as below. This update…
By Simon Woodhead Before starting, let me be absolutely clear that the title does not mean we are about to start passing on surcharges to our customers. We remain unique in NOT doing so and…
By Simon Woodhead I get so tied up in the ‘today’ and the ‘tomorrow’ that I sometimes forget to look in the rear-view mirror. To be honest, when I do it usually makes me cross…
Following the introduction of origin surcharging, we’re having to make an emergency behaviour change to our wholesale platform where numbers are set to call forward. Previously, the incoming caller ID was preserved, but given how…
By Simon Woodhead I’ve made no secret that I find origin surcharging a disgusting hijack of good intent. It is an embarrassing spectacle of economic Darwinism and tone-deafness that highlights big-business’ darkest underbelly. That starts…
By Peter Farmer Those of us of a certain age will remember the “Just Say No!” campaign in relation to the war on drugs. Fast forward from Nancy Reagan to UK telecoms in 2021 and…
By Simon Woodhead There’s a massive change coming July 1st in that most UK mobile operators will be surcharging calls to their subscribers based on where calls appear to come from, largely but not entirely…
By Simon Woodhead We wanted to update you on the latest state of the train-wreck that origin-based charging is rapidly becoming. We first advised in May that owing to Ofcom’s latest WVMR, Vodafone would be…
By Simon Woodhead Effective July 1st, in-line with Vodafone’s delayed implementation date, UK mobile networks Three and EE will be implementing similar origin-based charging. We expect O2 to attend too but be fashionably late Whilst…
Please note that Vodafone’s origin based charging effective June 1st has now been delayed until July 1st. As we’ve implemented it it doesn’t directly affect Simwood customers, but customers of other networks have a month’s…