WVMR 2021-2026: A waste of time?
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…
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…
By Simon Woodhead Following the series of recent blog posts about the Ofcom Wholesale Voice Markets Review 2021-2026, we have now submitted our formal response and share it here. Given privacy clauses, not least those…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
by Neil Brown, decoded:Legal The new General Conditions of Entitlement — the rulebook which makes up part of the regulatory framework for the provision of communications services in the UK — comes into force on…
OFCOM’s Narrowband Review, effective earlier this year, led to incoming calls on ported numbers coming into Simwood being loss-making per minute, as we warned during its consultative period that it would. We made our views…
OFCOM, the body in the UK responsible for promoting competition, has spent 18 months consulting with stakeholders over its plans to impose controls on the industry for the coming three years. We discussed this and shared our…