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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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What is MoIP?

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

Mobile communications over IP. MoIP, or mobile communications over internet protocol, is the mobilization of peer-to-peer communications including chat and talk using internet protocol via standard mobile communications applications including 3G, GPRS, Wi-Fias well as Wimax. Unlike mobile VoIP, MoIP is not a VoIP program made accessible from mobile phones or a switchboard application using VoIP i...
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Dial-A-Taxi – One Number for all Cornwall taxis

Posted on January 25, 2019January 30, 2019 by Daniel Kobale

Welcome to DIAL-A-TAXI One Number for all Cornwall taxis. Call 0870-945-8294 for Wadebridge, Bodmin, Newquay, St Austell,. Truro, Falmouth and Penzance taxis. Calls cost 13p per minute from a BT phone line. Calls from mobile and other networks may cost more.
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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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BT to be fined £42m for breaching contracts with telecoms providers

Posted on December 11, 2018December 11, 2018 by Daniel Kobale

BT will be fined £42m for a serious breach of Ofcom’s rules, after the company reduced compensation payments to other telecoms providers for late installations. Ofcom investigation finds BT cut its compensation payments for delays in connecting high-speed business lines These important networks underpin the UK’s communications infrastructure BT has admitted failings, and agreed to compe...
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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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Final statement: Personal numbering – Review of the 070 number range

Posted on October 11, 2018October 11, 2018 by Daniel Kobale

Final statement published 1 October 2018 070 numbers are designed to be used for personal or ‘follow-me’ services. When someone calls a 070 number, their communications provider pays a wholesale termination charge to the 070 service provider for the call to reach the recipient. The caller is then charged a retail price by their communications provider for making that call. As part of the Call ...
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OpenTAP access number changes

Posted on October 3, 2018February 25, 2021 by Daniel Kobale

Due to the new Ofcom regulation changes effective immediately you are required to change the access number for OpenTAP Due to legislation and regulation changes, Ofcom has decided that as of October 1st, 2019 all 070 Personal Numbers will be re-rated to the cost of a mobile call. Therefore we can no longer support OpenTAP on the current access numbers 07045607101 or 07011106620. You must therefor...
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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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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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