Ofcom: Marking their own homework
It is that time of year when Ofcom gives us their school report, prepared of course by Ofcom, in the form of a number of annual market reports. They paint a glowing picture of a…
Category Archives: Regulation
Ofcom Consultations – the future of interconnect and porting
Ofcom are presently consulting on two topics very close to our hearts. These are first consultations, there should be others, and we’d encourage all customers to share their opinion, or submit support for ours. These…
USA Caller ID changes – SHAKEN and STIR
by Thomas Hadden, COO Simwood Inc. Many of you may have heard of the changes being implemented in 2019-2020 by USA – ILEC/CLECs/IPES Carriers. The most common topic is SHAKEN/STIR. For our James Bond fans,…
GC C6 Caller ID Confusion
by Ross McKillop When Ofcom announced General Condition C6, and the promise that it would ensure valid Network Numbers that could identify the origin of a call, we were pleased it signalled a potential change…
GC C6: CLI Update
by Ross McKillop As those of you who attended SimCon will know, there’s been a few issues around General Condition C6 and the inconsistent interpretation of it across many CPs in the face of ambiguous…
Ofcom enforces Ofcom’s rules
By Simon Woodhead Please forgive the cynicism the title conveys but we’re genuinely surprised to see in recent weeks that Ofcom has taken action for violation of its rules. This is very out of character,…
GC6 Customer Update
Whilst the implementation of the new CLI policies around General Conditions 6 has largely gone without incident, we’ve experienced a number of reports of called parties wrongly seeing the Network Number, and the CPs concerned…
08979 Oh…
by Ross McKillop General Condition 6 requires that all operators sending calls onto the PSTN set a Network Number that is on their network to allow calls to be easily traced and reduce the impact…
GC6 CLI Update
With effect Wednesday 10th October we will be implementing the first phase of CLI changes for compliance with the revised General Condition 6 as previously discussed here Outbound calls that do not have any valid Caller…
Mandatory CLI Changes
As we have previously announced, there are big changes to CLI coming with the new Ofcom General Conditions which take effect from 1st October 2018. Ahead of this date, all customers must ensure they are sending valid Caller…