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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…

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…

GC C6 Caller ID Confusion

by Ross McKillop When Ofcom announced General Condition C6, and the promise that it would ensure valid Network Numbers that could identify the origin…

GC C6: CLI Update

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 interpreta…

Ofcom enforces Ofcom’s rules

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…

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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 c…

Mandatory CLI Changes

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. A…

Whose Line is it Anyway?

by Neil Brown, decoded:Legal The new General Conditions of Entitlement — the rulebook which makes up part of the regulatory framework for the provisi…

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…

OFCOM presses ahead regardless

OFCOM, the body in the UK responsible for promoting competition, has spent 18 months consulting with stakeholders over its plans to impose controls o…

OFCOM review of the fixed narrowband services markets

In February OFCOM published a consultation on its proposals for change in the fixed-line marketplace. Whilst neither Simwood nor our customers operat…

Nuisance Call Guidelines

In common with all UK CPs/Network Operators we recently received a joint letter from OFCOM and the ICO on the behaviour they expect in respect of: Un…

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