O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! He chortled in his joy. ‘Twas brillig. I am willing to bet this is the only time in history that fellow Oxonian, Lewis Carrol’s, famous poem, “Jabberwocky” was used, genuinely, in relation to a decision of Ofcom. This week, Ofcom finally remembered it is a Read more…
The most common queries we answer in the telecoms practice here at Exonia seem to be around 999, the UK’s specific emergency services calling number, giving access to the police, fire service, ambulance and coastguard. Everyone forgets the coastguard, including the AA when they branded themselves the UK’s fourth emergency Read more…
Everyone is all of a sudden very excited about Caller Line Identification, or CLI, at the moment. On October 1st 2018, new General Condition C6.6 comes into force in the UK obliging certain communications networks in the UK to prevent calls from reaching the called party where the CLI doesn’t Read more…
Our friends at the Office of Communications have been accused of “flip-flopping” before. Actually, there’s a subtle industry insider pun in that sentence – for the first person to get it, I’ll do 30 minutes of consultancy pro-bono!. In seriousness though, there are some parts of the industry that see the Read more…
I am sometimes asked what the best, single, piece of advice I can give to anyone in telecommunications is. You may assume (and you wouldn’t be far wrong) that it’s “read the General Conditions of Entitlement” or the relevant licence/operating conditions of your jurisdiction.That would probably be the third piece Read more…