The 2024 Comms Council UK Awards Winners Announced!
Comms Council UK today announced the winners of their 16th annual Awards. Each year, the Awards acknowledge accomplishments within the unified communications and VoIP industry. As with previous years, the 2024 Comms Council UK Awards were sponsored by Magrathea, and the winners were announced at a ceremony at The IET in London today. This year’s […]
Ofcom updated Network and Service Resilience guidance
Ofcom published a policy statement setting out how it intends to update its network resilience guidance to provide greater clarity to communication providers in order to reduce risk of network outages. Ofcom consulted on this proposal between December 2023 and March 2024, after feedback from industry that more guidance was needed on how providers can […]
Important Update: Ofcom General Conditions (GCs) of Entitlement
Ofcom has a set of General Conditions of Entitlement (GCs) which are published on the Ofcom Website. These GCs establish a comprehensive set of regulations governing electronic communications networks and services. They particularly draw your attention to Part C6 of the GCs, which outlines requirements for Calling Line Identification (CLI) facilities. To support this industry […]
Ofcom updated CLI Guidance – Tackling scam calls
Ofcom published a policy statement announcing its intention to proceed with the proposal to update the CLI Guidance to extend blocking to international calls which display a UK number as a Presentation Number. Ofcom consulted on this proposal between February 2024 and March 2024, to which Comms Council UK submitted a response to here. CCUK […]
Government Resilience Website – Phone and Broadband Outages
As part of the Government’s Prepare site, which provides information to help individuals prepare for emergencies and be more informed about hazards, a webpage on phone and broadband outages has been launched. The page outlines who is most at risk of being impacted by phone and broadband outages, such as people who live alone, who […]
Ofcom prohibits inflation-linked price rises
Ofcom has announced plans to ban providers from including inflation-linked or percentage-based price rise terms in new contracts. In December 2023, Ofcom consulted on making changes to require providers, where they apply in-contract price rises, to set these out upfront in pounds and pence and the point of sale. CCUK submitted a response to this […]
The 2024 Comms Council UK Awards Finalists Announced!
Comms Council UK today announced the finalists of the 16th annual Awards. Each year, the Awards acknowledge accomplishments within the Unified Communications and VoIP industry. As with previous years, the 2024 Comms Council UK Awards are sponsored by Magrathea, and this year’s winners will be announced at a ceremony at The IET in London on […]
Revised OTS planned go-live date
TOTSCo has announced that the revised One Touch Switch planned go-live date will be Tuesday 12th September 2024, following input from communication providers and other industry stakeholders. Alongside this, TOTSCo announced that it is publishing the TOTSCo path to One Touch Switch, which outlines the paths to OTS go-live for all communication providers. As there […]
Guidance on KYC
We wanted to share a new best practice guidance paper we have put together on “Preventing Misuse of Sub-Allocated and Assigned Numbers” which we hope you will find beneficial. It sets out how members can best comply with Ofcom’s requirements to: Carry out a robust set of due diligence checks before sub-allocating or assigning numbers; […]
Election update
After hours of speculation this afternoon, the Prime Minister has announced a General Election for Thursday 4th July; a surprise move (despite months of speculation) and the first July election since 1945. Parliament will continue until Friday, at which point all activity will be suspended, before being fully dissolved on Thursday 30th May. At this […]
