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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Ofcom has published new General Conditions of Entitlement, which come into force on 1st October. An item of particular interest to our clients in the new publication is C6 – Calling Line Identification Facilities. Download the full document here. This Condition sets out guidance on how all Communications Providers (CPs) involved in the origination, transmission […]

Openreach has started a consultation on the migration of WLR users caused by the planned ending of analogue PSTN services in 2025.. They plan to retire the PSTN network in favour of more efficient and cost effective digital network. Openreach tell us that there will be no new analogue lines available from 2023, and that […]