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…
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…
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…
By Simon Woodhead Ofcom are consulting on a proposed price reduction and loyalty scheme by Openreach for FTTP. We passionately believe in a fair and transparent marketplace and have strong views which we share in…
By Peter Farmer In late July, the UK’s regulator, the Office of Communications (Ofcom) published a series of documents with some inter-related themes. We had a pricing trends report, a call for inputs about whether…
By Simon Woodhead Less than two months ago, Ofcom published its findings in the Wholesale Voice Markets Review (WVMR). We’ve commented already on the process and some of the key points in “WVMR 2021-2026: A…
By Simon Woodhead Last year Ofcom “consulted” on what could have been described as BT’s business plan for the next five years. We put a lot of work into our response and made our views…
We omitted to share our response to Ofcom’s consultation on protecting prices for BT’s landline only customers, but now do so. In short we said BT’s commitments cannot be relied upon and that they need…
The title says it all really! The response is here.
By Simon Woodhead I’m afraid we have a confession and we wanted you to hear about it from us, whether or not you subsequently hear about it elsewhere, because we let ourselves down. There’s some…
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…