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BT to be fined £42m for breaching contracts with telecoms providers

Posted on December 11, 2018December 11, 2018 by Daniel Kobale

BT will be fined £42m for a serious breach of Ofcom’s rules, after the company reduced compensation payments to other telecoms providers for late installations. Ofcom investigation finds BT cut its compensation payments for delays in connecting high-speed business lines These important networks underpin the UK’s communications infrastructure BT has admitted failings, and agreed to compe...
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Asterisk configurations for sip.conf and extensions.conf

Posted on July 14, 2018March 28, 2023 by Daniel Kobale

DIDcomms is completely compatible with VICIdial and Asterisk. These are some configurations that we have used with our clients to configure their Asterisk and VICIdial SIP/VoIP servers. Our IP addresses for inbound/outbound: sip.franzcom.com 5.144.84.191 5.144.88.163 Account entry for OUTGOING SIP IP authentication. username= secret= disallow=all allow=ulaw allow=ala...
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SIP Response Codes Session Initiation Protocol

Posted on June 16, 2018October 16, 2019 by Daniel Kobale

SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) is a signalling application layer protocol designed to create, modify, and terminate a multimedia session over the Internet Protocol. It is the most common protocol used in VoIP technology. In SIP, every network element is identified by a SIP URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) which is like an address. They are broken down as 1xx Provisional Responses, 2xx Successf...
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What is VoIP/SIP Call Termination?

Posted on December 11, 2017May 15, 2019 by Daniel Kobale

SIP/VoIP Call Termination, what is it and how does it work! VoIP call termination is used to refer to the procedures that are used for routing telephone calls from one provider to the next provider until the call has been routed to the last telephone company and has been received by the recipient. Voice termination is another term that is used for call termination. The telephone companies are als...
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What does SIP mean in the telecoms industry?

Posted on January 31, 2017 by Daniel Kobale

The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a communications protocol for signalling and controlling multimedia communication sessions. The most common applications of SIP are in Internet telephony for voice and video calls, as well as instant messaging, over Internet Protocol (IP) networks.
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DIDcomms launches Prepay070 with Free Roaming to VoIP/SIP divert!

Posted on November 29, 2016May 15, 2020 by Daniel Kobale

We are moving into the digital age of the internet with rapidly developing technology, products and services and with that DIDcomms want to open the doors and break down the boarders starting with 070 Free SIP Roaming Worldwide. Free roaming you say, well how does that work? With our state of the art switch and billing platform, we have the ability to offer our 070 Personal Number customers fre...
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Brexit: All you need to know about the UK leaving the EU

Posted on July 26, 2016June 15, 2020 by Daniel Kobale

What does Brexit mean? It is a word that has become used as a shorthand way of saying the UK leaving the EU - merging the words Britain and exit to get Brexit, in a same way as a Greek exit from the EU was dubbed Grexit in the past. Why is Britain leaving the European Union? A referendum - a vote in which everyone (or nearly everyone) of voting age can take part - was held on Thursday 23 June, ...
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Why is BT buying EE and what does it mean for consumers?

Posted on February 6, 2016February 6, 2016 by Daniel Kobale

The Competition and Markets Authority has approved BT's £12.5bn takeover of Britain's biggest mobile phone operator, EE What has happened? The mergers watchdog, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), has given the provisional green light for BT to take over EE, Britain's biggest mobile operator. It comes after months of deliberations, during which rivals such as TalkTalk a...
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How Does VoIP work?

Posted on December 26, 2014June 15, 2020 by Daniel Kobale

VoIP, or Voice Over Internet Protocol allows you to take a standard analog telephone signal and turn it into a digital signal that is transmitted over the Internet. By plugging any standard telephone into a special device called an ATA (analog telephone adapter) you can use your internet connection to make telephone calls. VoIP telephone calls can also be made directly from your computer using s...
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Notice to all OpenTAP users about modem software settings!

Posted on September 17, 2014February 25, 2021 by Daniel Kobale

We recently have had a few customers who are using computer-based modem and compatible TAP software with OpenTAP and they have been having trouble dialling up and sending messages via our OpenTAP dial-up access numbers. Some times for some reason with some customers modems and their software it will not work properly with the PARITY setting of NONE (NULL). Try changing the PARITY setting to TRU...
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