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.…
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…
By Pete Farmer We’ve previously blogged about restrictions countries are putting into place on presenting a local telephone number crossing the international gateway… For example: Germany, Norway, of course the French are mentioned often and…
By Pete Farmer Avid readers of my musings on this blog may recall I opined on the subject of CPI recently. In that piece, I mentioned Simwood had written to the Minister regarding our concerns. …