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Peter Farmer

Clipboards don’t cut it anymore

This is my take on Simon’s recent post about essentially the same topic – yes, we were both driven to rant independently, and you can’t waste a rant!…

I take it back, Dido! And an update on the COLT matter

I have a lot of respect for Baroness (Dido) Harding. She was an early trailblazer for women leading tech firms, as CEO of TalkTalk, and now she lever…

Hosted Pricing Changes and Carrier Services MSA Updates

I’d much rather be writing a notice about our awesome new conversational AI, or Teams Operator Connect, but, alas, I have the need to update you all…

The channel bubble – new bursting rules

I recall recently on one of my flights to a recent event looking at a packet of smoked almonds handed to me by the cabin crew which contained the war…

Gigaclear’s issues expose (more) cracks in Government logic

By now, you’ve probably heard that Gigaclear have had a slap on the wrist for a data management situation which could have resulted in 948 blue-light…

Unwanted Calls 2.0

It’s been a while since we updated our website guidance to the general public on unwanted calls, and with some changes in the industry, it is worthwh…

Unwanted Calls 2.0

It’s been a while since we updated our website guidance to the general public on unwanted calls, and with some changes in the industry, it is worthwh…

What does the ‘08 crash and scam traffic have in common?

Regular readers of my missives will have picked up on my reading (ok, listening to an audiobook) about the history of Google. I’m currently on a chap…

Quick tweak to some export charges

Are you breaching, or planning to breach, the Simwood MSA in terms of attempting to engage in wholesale porting? Or are you otherwise causing, or abo…

Update on Simwood Parliamentary Engagement

We don’t publish the full details of our correspondence with regulators or Governments, because they don’t like it… and we have some sympathy with th…

Sneaky, underhand, positioning

Calling nuisance calls fraud is both dangerous and sneaky. TL;DR – if you want to address nuisance calls (and by extension scrotitude via telephone c…

Are we evil?

Some of the privacy-minded readers of this blog might sense some irony in my use of Google’s codification of the corporate ethics it espoused until a…

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