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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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EE and Virgin Media fined for overcharging customers

Posted on December 11, 2018 by Daniel Kobale

EE and Virgin Media have been fined a total of £13.3 million for overcharging almost 500,000 mobile and broadband customers who wanted to leave their contracts early. An investigation by Ofcom found that around 400,000 EE customers ended up overpaying up to £4.3 million, while almost 82,000 Virgin Media customers were overcharged just under £2.8 million. The regulat...
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Facebook is set to double its London presence after acquiring enough office space to house 6,000 staff.

Posted on July 24, 2018August 6, 2019 by Daniel Kobale

Facebook is set to double its London presence after acquiring enough office space to house 6,000 staff. The social network company announced the purchase of nearly 600,000 square feet of office space. Spread across two buildings in King’s Cross, the workspace will be ready by 2021. Facebook did not confirm how many new jobs will be created. The US-owned company added 800 jobs in London last year a...
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Vodafone Paging Network Closure

Posted on February 23, 2018February 25, 2021 by Daniel Kobale

Vodafone closes down their paging network. Vodafone have announced that they will be closing their wide-area national paging network by 31st March 2018. This means that any Vodafone Paging customers who have not made alternative arrangements will lose their paging service on this date. Vodafone will shut down its pager network by the end of the after reaching an impasse with competition watchd...
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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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No Mr. Soros, Brexit Will Not be a Black Friday for the British Pound

Posted on June 26, 2016April 20, 2019 by Daniel Kobale

George Soros says the British pound is at risk of another 'Black Wednesday' event should the UK vote to Leave the European Union on June the 22nd. We disagree! George Soros, the man who once ‘broke the pound’ is back in the headlines with warnings that the British pound would suffer a cataclysmic decline, similar to Black Wednesday of 1992, should the UK vote to exit the EU. Soros has told The...
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HTC One Android 4.2.2 update rolls out across Europe

Posted on July 7, 2013May 21, 2022 by Daniel Kobale

Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean update has reportedly started to roll out across Europe for HTC One According to HTC Source, HTC One owners across northern Europe will now be able to download the Android 4.2.2 update. The new update brings launcher bar enhancements, battery level percentage display, widget panel rearrangement, enhanced home button behaviour (black menu bar from screen removed), n...
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EE 4G UK – details on coverage, phones, prices, speeds for the 4GEE network

Posted on June 17, 2013August 21, 2021 by Daniel Kobale

EE has launched the UK's first 4G mobile network, called 4GEE, allowing for on average five times faster mobile network browsing speeds than 3G. Where can you get 4G in the UK? The 4G network is now live in the following 62 places in the UK Amersham, Aylesbury, Barnsley, Belfast, Berkhamstead, Billericay, Bingley, Birmingham, Blackpool, Bolton, Bradford, Brentwood, Bristol, Cardiff, Chelmsfo...
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