News

Telephone Preference Service

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 […]

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Tackling Scam Calls

Posted 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 […]

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Employee spotlight for February – Ashley

Posted on: 15th February 2024, by Alison Kerevan

  For February we finally managed to catch up with Ashley, she’s not easy to track down as she is always very busy; as well as helping clients she’s often found attending industry meetings or buried deep in rate sheets.   When not seeing wonderful sights of course… What are your favorite things about working for […]

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February 2024 – Newsletter

Posted on: 6th February 2024, by Alison Kerevan

Welcome to the February newsletter, combining news from Magrathea and around the industry. Billing Increments – Keeping Tariffs Simple Clients may be aware that quite a few international destinations have introduced different billing increments on termination traffic, such as 60 seconds followed by 1 second increments, 60 seconds increments for the entire call and even […]

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Artificial Intelligence – what will it bring for 2024?

Posted 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 […]

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