By Simon Woodhead By rights the 2020 Narrowband Market Review should now be under way and rumour was it’d land at the back-end of July. We’ve had a few friendly discussions with Ofcom and BT…

By Simon Woodhead Further to yesterday’s ‘“plan B” post relating to the issue of “BT halting porting operations?”, we are in receipt of more information. We have a list of questions posed on yesterday’s call…

By Simon Woodhead Further to yesterday’s update, and characteristically later than promised, we’ve had an update from BT on their plans for Number Portability where it involves BT. Please see below statement on our Number…

By Simon Woodhead My colleague Bruce just concluded an industry call (with the OTA) regarding the Openreach porting debacle. This confirmed that Openreach India is indeed closed as we signalled yesterday. The summary is “we…

By Simon Woodhead Please see a further update on this situation here (March 25th) This morning we posted some alarming news and our letter to Ofcom regarding BT’s apparent absence of business continuity when it…

By Simon Woodhead Please also see an operational update (March 24th) since this post. And a further update (March 25th). One thing I’ve noticed in the last few weeks is how positive and empathetic most…

By Ross McKillop There is a common misconception that London had two area codes, 0207 and 0208, and then 0203 was added. As a result, there’s a perceived (incorrect) difference between an ‘0203 number’ and…

By Simon Woodhead In 2017, I articulated in a blog post what I’d long said in private. In short, how there is no IP interconnect to BT subject to price controls, like the Standard Interconnect…