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Abandoned and silent calls

Posted on February 22, 2019June 22, 2020 by Daniel Kobale

The phone rings, you rush to answer but there's no-one on the line. Abandoned and silent calls can be annoying and irritating at the best of times. These are also known as CC and ping calls. But for some people – for example, those living alone – these calls can be particularly frightening. This guide explains more about these calls, what can cause them and what you can do about them. What...
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What is the difference between VoIP and SIP?

Posted on February 16, 2019March 8, 2019 by Daniel Kobale

The differences between VoIP and SIP. VoIP calls are sent via SIP Trunks. VoIP and SIP work in conjunction with each other! Your telecoms supplier provides the SIP trunks as this is how all your VoIP calls, fax and data are transited. You cannot make a VoIP call or send a fax to another phone line without SIP trunks. Let’s say you’re in your office; when you make a call via...
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How PSTN and ISDN switch off will impact your business

Posted on February 10, 2019February 10, 2019 by Daniel Kobale

How PSTN and ISDN switch off will impact your business. As we all know, in 2015 BT announced that they will be switching off the PSTN and ISDN networks by 2025. With this, BT will no longer accept any new orders or amendments to services applicable to any ISDN products from 2020. Once the switch-off has taken place, customers will be migrated to the IPEX (IP Exchange) core network using SIP (S...
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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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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 SIP Termination?

Posted on March 1, 2018May 15, 2019 by Daniel Kobale

About SIP call termination? SIP termination is a service which allows users to use VoIP technology for making outgoing voice calls to external phone networks all over the world, including public switched telephone network phone numbers, as well as mobile wireless operators. Tariffs for SIP termination service vary from one SIP termination provider to another and calling rates vary depending on...
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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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Which VoIP/SIP Codec Should You Use?

Posted on November 29, 2017May 15, 2019 by Daniel Kobale

How To Describe the Quality of a SIP Trunking Call “So clear, you can hear a pin drop!” Are you old enough to remember the very successful tag line for Sprint Communications' long distance service back in the ancient 1990’s? “Can you hear me now?” Or...Did you grow up remembering the equally (if not more) successful phrase that Verizon Wireless made part of our cultural reality in the new mi...
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How many countries are there in the world?

Posted on January 22, 2017 by Daniel Kobale

There are 196 countries in the world today. Taiwan is not considered an official country by many, which would bring the count down to 195 countries. Although Taiwan operates as an independent country, many countries (including the U.S.) do not officially recognize it as one.
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