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Regulation

Barfy Trump’s Deckchairs and Phone Books (entirely unrelated)

Picture the scene: Barfy Trump has always rented deckchairs, on a big ship. In fact many years ago he used to own everything on that ship but the som…

Important: Mandatory Caller ID

We’ve blogged before about the importance of sending valid caller ID on all calls, and warned that we will begin rejecting call attempts with invalid…

Ofcom’s Digital Communications Review

Further to our initial response, we have now responded to Ofcom’s actual Strategic Review of Digital Communications. Should customers wish to make th…

Ofcom’s definition of Significant Market Power (and porting)

We’ve just responded to Ofcom’s legal direction to provide commercial information on the call charges we’ve levied on BT and others for the last 3 ye…

An alternative perspective on Ofcom’s “Communications Market Review 2015”

It should be pretty obvious to readers of this blog that we struggle with some floors of Ofcom towers (Huw and team, not yours!). ‘We no speak bureau…

Ofcom CEO gives House of Commons Evidence

Sharon White, new CEO of Ofcom, today gave evidence to the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee. Whilst a satirical commentary…

Our response to Ofcom’s Strategic Review of Digital Communications

Ofcom has announced a “Strategic Review of Digital Communications” and in Phase 1 has asked for input on what to review. Our formal response is copie…

NGCS changes: “But Ofcom say…”

Since we published our draft July rate sheet last week a few customers have been quick to tell us it is wrong. It is “wrong” because the Ofcom Servic…

Will consumers be better off under NGCS?

We’ve given the background to Ofcom’s NGCS changes in previous posts but now the full information is available we’ve begun our work of digesting the…

Further guidance on OFCOM’s “Service Charge” changes

We previously discussed what changes were afoot and suggested customers hold-fire from responding to OFCOM’s demands until the situation was more cle…

Guidance on OFCOM’s “Service Charges” Changes

All of our Virtual Interconnect customers have received contact from OFCOM relating to the ongoing unbundling of non-geographic call charges. This is…

OFCOM’s Consultation on Number Portability Charging

OFCOM’s Narrowband Review, effective earlier this year, led to incoming calls on ported numbers coming into Simwood being loss-making per minute, as…

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