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Regulation

Our response to Equinox

By Simon Woodhead Ofcom are consulting on a proposed price reduction and loyalty scheme by Openreach for FTTP. We passionately believe in a fair and…

Affordability of broadband in the UK

By Peter Farmer In late July, the UK’s regulator, the Office of Communications (Ofcom) published a series of documents with some inter-related themes…

Who really has the Significant Market Power?

By Simon Woodhead Less than two months ago, Ofcom published its findings in the Wholesale Voice Markets Review (WVMR). We’ve commented already on the…

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 i…

Protecting prices for BT’s landline only customers

We omitted to share our response to Ofcom’s consultation on protecting prices for BT’s landline only customers, but now do so. In short we said BT’s…

Our response to Ofcom’s Emergency BSL Video Relay Consultation

The title says it all really! The response is here.

Handling 999 and 112 better

By Simon Woodhead I’m afraid we have a confession and we wanted you to hear about it from us, whether or not you subsequently hear about it elsewhere…

Christmas & New Year 2020 Porting Desk

By Bruce Clark Just like last year, Simwood’s porting desk will remain open and operational throughout the festive period, with the exception of the…

How can we make porting easier?

by Bruce Clark As many of you are likely aware, the whole UK porting process is somewhat flawed in many areas. Whilst a large volume of the issues ar…

Our response to the WVMR

By Simon Woodhead Following the series of recent blog posts about the Ofcom Wholesale Voice Markets Review 2021-2026, we have now submitted our forma…

WVMR Part 6 – Wrapping up

By Simon Woodhead We discussed recently what we’d like to see from the Narrowband Review. Less than 24 hours later Ofcom published its Wholesale Voic…

WVMR Part 5 – A prime opportunity to improve porting?

By Simon Woodhead We discussed recently what we’d like to see from the Narrowband Review. Less than 24 hours later Ofcom published its Wholesale Voic…

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