Tag: still – DIDcomms

Will the 4-Day Workweek Take Hold in Europe?

Posted on August 10, 2019 by Daniel Kobale

Work four days a week, but get paid for five? It sounds too good to be true, but this debate is front and centre within numerous European economies, not only because of a culture shift toward accommodating flexible working but also because some evidence suggests it’s good for business. Many organizations in Europe are cutting workweeks, though not wages, from 36 hours (five days) to 28 hours (four...
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PrepayGEO Unlimted (UK VoIP Numbers)

Posted on August 8, 2019May 15, 2020 by Daniel Kobale

PrepayGEO Unlimted, the unlimited calling plan with free UK calls to landlines and mobiles. Get the PrepayGEO Unlimited Plan from DIDcomms, go on! It comes with free incoming calls, free UK calls to landlines and mobiles and free voicemail... great! Plus you get all these other features included free of charge all for just "£19.95 per month including VAT." 24/7 call management online custome...
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Trump’s Huawei ban a ‘double-edged sword’

Posted on May 20, 2019May 20, 2019 by Daniel Kobale

As the US and China square off, tech companies on both sides feel the heat US president Donald Trump’s move to effectively ban Chinese telecommunications firms from doing business with American companies is going to impact both the nations and the global tech industry alike, industry experts said. Huawei and ZTE have been added to the “Entity List” from Friday and prevents it from ...
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Huawei’s use of Android restricted by Google

Posted on May 20, 2019 by Daniel Kobale

Google has barred the world's second-biggest smartphone maker, Huawei, from some updates to the Android operating system, dealing a blow to the Chinese company. New designs of Huawei smartphones are set to lose access to some Google apps. The move comes after the Trump administration added Huawei to a list of companies that American firms cannot trade with unless they have a license. Google...
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BT to shut EE headquarters in cost-cutting drive

Posted on March 21, 2019 by Daniel Kobale

Britain’s biggest mobile operator, EE, will abandon its headquarters to move into BT’s nerve centre at St Paul’s later this year, its chief executive has confirmed. Marc Allera told The Telegraph that EE was making preparations to move from its offices in the Paddington Basin to occupy multiple floors in BT Centre, overlooking Sir Christopher Wren’s masterpiece cathedral. The migration i...
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The History of VoIP (Full Version)

Posted on March 8, 2019March 8, 2019 by Daniel Kobale

The History of VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol, abbreviated VoIP, is a fairly recent technology. It goes by many names, including Voice Over Broadband (VoBB), Internet Telephony, IP Telephony, and broadband phone.The advent of the Internet brought with it an abundance of innovation regarding communication. Of course, there was email in the beginning, but then people started wondering whether th...
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Life after Ofcom’s 3% rule

Posted on December 18, 2018May 15, 2020 by Daniel Kobale

Uncertainty, we are told, is bad for business. Uncertainty over Brexit is bad, uncertainty over exchange rates is bad, uncertainty over unpredictable world leaders is bad. As of March 1st 2017, there’s a new type of uncertainty being introduced into the world of outbound calling. The previously clear guideline of a 3% maximum abandoned call rate is set to silently disappear overnight on the 28th F...
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What are Ofcom’s rules on outbound calling times?

Posted on December 18, 2018May 1, 2019 by Daniel Kobale

A question we often get asked is what Ofcom considers acceptable outbound calling times for call centres? As this is one of the common complaints people make regarding call centres, you’d have thought that this would be clearly defined and easy to establish. Perhaps surprisingly, it’s not. As this matter logically falls into the remit of the use (or misuse) of a public communications network, y...
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Changes which are going to affect 070 UK Personal Numbers

Posted on October 30, 2018May 15, 2020 by Daniel Kobale

070 Personal Numbers will be discontinued from October 1st, 2019 and all 070 Personal Numbering will become standard pay-as-you-go 07 mobile phone numbers. Due to changes in Ofcom regulations, 070 Personal Numbers will no longer available after October 1st, 2019. Existing customers are recommended to move from 070 personal numbers to 087 numbers, as in the next 12 months 070 personal numbers w...
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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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