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“Sorry Mummy, it was an accident!”
By Simon Woodhead Those are very well used words in our house. My 5 year old daughter is scarily bright and what any parent will relate to when I say “into everything”. An entire toilet roll down the...
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CLI Filtering Changes (or not!)
By Simon Woodhead Back in 2018 we had General Condition C6.6 (GC C6.6) introduced, requiring operators to ensure CLI was valid on the way in and out of the network, amongst other things. I remember it...
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New Right to Port Rule
By Victoria Palmer You may have heard that the industry’s new “Right to Port” rule – more specifically an update to General Condition C7 – came into effect on April 3rd 2023. The industry-agreed...
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Are you inadvertently enabling scammers?
By Pete Farmer We’ve mentioned it before, but it may have gotten lost in the excitement of the TSRs and the recent CLI changes and the myriad of other stuff being thrown at our industry over the...
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TSRs and Encryption
By Simon Woodhead There’s a bogus narrative circulating that the Telecommunications Security Act 2021 doesn’t apply to all but the largest entities. That is incorrect – the Act applies to all, and...
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CLI Authentication: Central database boringness abounds (again!)
By Simon Woodhead TL;DR CLI authentication has some risks, some seriously acute risks for our customers, so don’t let the naive and self-interested of the industry distract you from addressing those...
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Sweden CLI blocking
By Simon Woodhead In keeping with a list of countries we’re now losing track of, Sweden has jumped on the CLI blocking train. Following guidelines from the Swedish national regulator – PTS (Post-och...
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On STIR/SHAKEN, Ofcom nailed it. On spoofing….?
By Peter Farmer By now, you’ll be aware of a Statement issued by our regulator, the Office of Communications, that kicked any form of STIR/SHAKEN or CLI Authentication in the UK into the long grass....
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What is going on in the US?
By Simon Woodhead I’ve always loved the US market because of its straightforwardness. One doesn’t have Regulators beating around the bush, making ever evolving excuses why you can’t have a given...
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The USA is losing the plot
By Peter Farmer Many of you know of my dual-nationality. Being both British and Canadian, means I give twice as much grief to Americans (and get twice as much back) as the average person. The French...
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The big 999 myth
By Peter Farmer Operate a voice service in the UK? Does it use telephone numbers? Then you have to provide access to 999/112. Oh, it’s over the top you say? Yep, still have to offer it. But your...
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Greed, lies and telecoms!
By Simon Woodhead I was drawn to this industry by the opportunity to leverage technology to make the world better. For those who don’t know our backstory, in 1996 “eSMS” was the world’s first gateway...
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