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New EU Communications Body (can you hear us?)

Posted by Kieron on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Yesterday I retweeted a link to an article which appeared in Abu Dhabi’s The National entitled Genuine competition needed in telecoms. The article is extremely pertinent and timely given Thursday’s IRG/ERG press release regarding the creation of BEREC, the election of its officers and secretariat and the decision to locate the body in Brussels. (Acronym [...]

Make FREEPHONE free campaign!

Posted by Kieron on Friday, January 15th, 2010

You’ve probably detected a little frustration in the posts on this blog. It’s become a bit of a crusade really – this desire for a level playing field for fixed and mobile communications providers. Unfortunately, more than 25 years since their introduction, 0800 “freephone” numbers are still not free when dialled from most UK mobile [...]

Letter to BBC Breakfast

Posted by Kieron on Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

Dear Bill and Sian I am shocked and extremely disappointed to see the following text on your on your website in relation to your 03 contact number: “Calls cost no more than calls to 01/02 geographic numbers, although calls from mobiles will vary according to your provider.” Worse still, the text which appears on the [...]

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03TALK: At last, mobile-friendly conference calls!

Monday, November 9th, 2009

How many times have you been sent a conference dial-in number and been frustrated that the service is operated on an 08 number so you know you’re going to be stung by your mobile operator? It happens to me frequently and, as Murphy’s Law would have it, usually when I have no access to a [...]

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Ofcom’s PRS Scope Review. Come on guys!

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Today, Ofcom published a Statement establishing an “analytical framework that will help inform future Ofcom considerations on whether the scope of [PRS] regulation should be widened or narrowed”. From a consumer perspective, there can only be one outcome of such considerations. Surely. The level of confusion and ambiguity in PRS regulation – particularly pricing – [...]

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Apple approves IP calls over GSM for iPhone

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

I’m very pleased to have read a couple of stories in the telecoms press about approval of iPhone applications which help users save money on calls from their mobile handsets. Typically these involve the provision of alternative numbers – such as Simon Maddox 0870 Android and iPhone application. iPhone approval was a long time coming. [...]

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