Posted on: 4th March 2024, by Alison Kerevan
Preventing unwanted calls and protecting consumers is a priority in our industry, and there is a great deal of pressure coming from regulators and government to deal with this traffic and minimise the risk to members of the public. We are involved with many industry initiatives and working groups alongside other telcos who take their […]
Read MorePosted on: 28th February 2024, by Alison Kerevan
Readers of our newsletter will know why we were delighted to receive the recent Ofcom statement confirming that we will not be forced to adopt STIR/ SHAKEN style CLI authentication – for now at least. We had argued that this highly complex and expensive tactic to reduce scam and nuisance calls was disproportionate and unlikely […]
Read MorePosted on: 24th January 2024, by Magrathea
We’re all aware of the significant changes that will impact communications in the short and medium term but our team continually scan further ahead and consider how technology advancements might potentially impact us beyond those currently known. One of the areas which our TechOps team know we need to be cognisant of is of course […]
Read MorePosted on: 19th December 2023, by Magrathea
We still have a few days to go before we can start festivities properly and time feels to be rushing by, is it really a year since I wrote something for last Christmas? So, it feels really important to just pause for a moment and take time to thank each of our wonderful clients, suppliers […]
Read MorePosted on: 4th December 2023, by Magrathea
For anyone that has worked in telecoms for a while won’t be surprised to hear that Ofcom have released a little flurry of consultations in the run up to the holiday season. The ones most relevant to our clients are likely to be these: A call for inputs on the current providers of ADR schemes […]
Read MorePosted on: 7th November 2023, by Magrathea
Net neutrality regulation, also known as Open Internet Access, exists so that users of the internet can freely access all services on the internet unfettered by commercial preferences to market their own services or other filtering decisions by their internet service provider (ISP). This isn’t unique to the UK, indeed America also had strong net […]
Read MorePosted on: 1st November 2023, by Tracey Wright
Be warned this is a rather indulgent post but I make no apologies as I celebrate twenty years at Magrathea this week and want to share what that means for me. As I reflect on my time and involvement here, my thoughts are not immediately drawn to commercial success or even our exciting and ever-changing […]
Read MorePosted on: 19th September 2023, by Magrathea
When BT announced in 2017 that they planned to close down the PSTN, with a stop sell date of 2023 and a final withdrawal date of 2025, these deadlines seemed a lifetime away, ‘plenty of time to prepare ourselves and they’ll probably push the date out anyway’ I can remember was quietly muttered by plenty […]
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