<RANT> In the UK, if you want to ride a moped, you have to be trained and pass a test. Why? Because you’re a danger to yourself and others, without a…
What is a mobile number? Contrary to popular belief, it is not just +447x, as you have to omit personal numbers (long story,) which are +4470 and rad…
You know us regulatory types (for those that don’t know, that’s my background). We love our three-letter abbreviations and defined terms etc. So I wa…
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!…
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…
Back in my financial services days, I remember the strict difference in regulatory scariness between the USA and the UK. The SFA (as was then) in the…
Following our warning a few weeks ago about disruptive changes in the USA, we have seen very little change in compliance by other operators, with man…
Back in 2020 when we went live with STIR/SHAKEN signing in the US, we published a matrix of the various levels of attestation we’d apply to calls. Th…
For more than 15 years, customers of Simwood have come to us having experienced difficulty with Telecare / red button devices when migrating to a SIP…
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…
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…
The US remains an incredibly hostile market and the tsunami of rubbish traffic looking for a home shows no relent. We mostly filter it out in our sal…