Posted on: 18th June 2020, by Magrathea
Whilst it’s true that Ofcom published some reassurances early on that breaches of regulations due to the Covid crisis would be handled with due consideration for the circumstances, and they delayed some consultations cognisant of the fact many of us have enough on our plates right now, but the fact remains the consultations and regulatory […]
Read MorePosted on: 26th February 2020, by Magrathea
Regulatory review, the year so far… In Spring last year we were busy responding to three Ofcom consultations which were absolutely critical to our industry – promoting trust in telephone numbers, the future of telephone numbers and the future of interconnection and call termination. Ofcom had committed to reviewing these three areas in the Annual […]
Read MorePosted on: 18th December 2019, by Magrathea
We hope that many of you will remember the article we published earlier this year about why voice calls matter; whatever changes the industry sees to the underlying technology of making calls happen, we strongly believe voice calls will be around for many years to come. We have a passion for communication and always strive […]
Read MorePosted on: 14th October 2019, by Magrathea
It’s not only in the UK that we have had a lot of consultations and regulatory reviews this year, in Ireland things are just as busy and Comreg have now confirmed a number of changes relating to non-geographic numbers. Comreg have taken the bold decision to restrict the consumer’s cost of calls to non-geographic numbers […]
Read MorePosted on: 18th April 2019, by Magrathea
Ofcom have recently launched three consultations which are short (by usual standards!), concise and on the surface appear quite simple. However, these three documents are among some of the most critical we have seen out of the regulator in recent years. These consultations are not a surprise, they were promised in the Annual Plan and […]
Read MorePosted on: 22nd January 2019, by Magrathea
Many of you will have seen Ofcom’s recent figures showing the decline of fixed line communication and a huge increase in data use. We realise these figures won’t have been a big surprise to most in our industry and anyone with children or younger colleagues are almost certainly going to have witnessed the shift to […]
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